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Colonial Augusta: Key of the Indian Country

Edited by: Cashin
ISBN: 9780865542174
Product Format: Hardback
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Colonial Augusta: Key of the Indian Country
Item #: H196
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On 14 June 1736 James Oglethorpe ordered Noble Jones to lay out the town of Augusta at the head of the Savannah River. It was Oglethorpe himself who recognized that Augusta would become the colony's link to the vast interior-"the key of all the Indian countrey." As this book reveals, Augusta and Georgia backcountry were critical components in the clash of empires that dominates the story of colonial Georgia. More Details