- Collection:
- Digital Archives of Reese Library, Augusta University
- Title:
- Railroad Bridge over the Savannah (Augusta, GA)
- Publisher:
- Georgia Regents University Collection, Reese Library Special Collections, Augusta, Georgia
- Date of Original:
- 1870/1879
- Subject:
- Augusta (Ga.)--History--Photographs
Bridges--Georgia--Augusta--Photographs - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This bridge was originally built in 1853 to bring the South Carolina Railroad across the Savannah River. Until then, cargo bound to or from the port of Charleston, South Carolina had to be unloaded and carried across the river by ferry or footbridge to the other side of the river and loaded back onto trains to complete the journey, thus providing steady employment for stevedores and dray operators in Augusta, Georgia and Hamburg, South Carolina. It was still another 5 years before the tracks of the South Carolina Rail Road connected to the rails of the Georgia Railroad. This bridge was washed out by the 1908 flood and subsequently replaced by the current steel bridge.
- Metadata URL:
- http://guides.augusta.edu/AugustaPhotographs/RL00069
- Rights Holder:
- Contact Reese Library Special Collections (spcoll@augusta.edu) for rights information
- Extent:
- 11.7 x 7.8 cm
- Holding Institution:
- Augusta University, Reese Library
- Rights:
-
