Black America Series: Augusta, Georgia
Filled with remarkable vintage photographs, Black America: Augusta, Georgia captures the essence of the African-American heritage in this historic Southern community.
The Garden City has produced a wide variety of intellectual and political pioneers, including a handful of educators who were instrumental in the pivotal Brown versus Board of Education case. Within the pages of this volume, their stories unfold.
Images of America: Fort Gordon
Fort Gordon is a sprawling military base encompassing portions of four counties in and around Augusta. Now the U.S. Army Signal Center, the base has a long and illustrious history going back to Camp Gordon in Atlanta, where doughboys were trained for the bloody fields of Flanders. Over the years, Fort Gordon has grown from a rural community to a military police training center, to today's signal corps training center. During its growth, the military post has hosted several famous names at the Fort Gordon Theater, including Rip Torn, Robert Duvall, John Anderson, and Jayne Mansfield. During World War II , the post was used as a holding facility for German and Italian prisoners of war and as a training facility for Comanche code talkers.
Haunted Augusta & Local Legends
Inside the shadows of Augusta, Georgia lies another world. It is a world of mystery, legend, and the ghosts who haunt Georgia's second oldest city.
Soldiers from the Revolutionary and Civil Wars walk the night. A heartbroken maiden carries a burden too great to bear when she learns that her beloved will not return. A murdered mill worker continues to weave at her loom. In a cemetery, a slave steals bodies for medical research. And the dead still linger in graveyards over a century old.
With a combination of history and legend, the eerie side of Augusta is revealed.
