What Georgia City Was Once Known as the “Lowell of the South”?
Augusta Georgia got that nickname in the 19th century because of the canal they built in 1845, modeled after one built in Lowell Massachusetts.
Augusta’s canal was modeled after the canal system in Lowell, Mass., where engineers built canals to amplify water power on the Merrimack River near Boston in the early 1800s.
Read more about the Augusta Canal.
The canal and its dozens of industries helped move the South away from dependence on the industrialized North. And when the Civil War broke out, it attracted a major Confederate industry: the great Powderworks.
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