Westover Memorial Park celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. More than 20,000 people have been buried on the 83-acre property.
By Meg Mirshak | Friday, May 18, 2012
The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association will present A Celebration of the Chinese Community on Saturday at the Augusta Public Library.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Augusta's Confederate dead were remembered Sunday in a special program at West View Cemetery.
By Summer Moore | Sunday, April 29, 2012
A Confederate Memorial Day program focusing on plans to recover the wreckage of the CSS Georgia from Savannah Harbor will be held at 2 p.m. April 29 at Westview Cemetery.
By Rob Pavey | Thursday, April 19, 2012
Augusta native Archibald Butt, 46, who died aboard the Titanic in 1912, never married and had no direct descendants, but his relatives still claim him with pride.
By Kyle Martin | Saturday, April 14, 2012
The Savannah River's last remaining stretch of shoals has been a tourist attraction of sorts for more than 4,000 years.
By Rob Pavey | Saturday, April 7, 2012
One of the continent's oldest and most controversial archaeological excavations will be opened to volunteers this spring.
By Rob Pavey | Friday, April 6, 2012
Exhibits on display at the Augusta Museum of History highlight local legends such as James Brown, the city's golf tradition and a 75th-anniversary exhibition of local artifacts.
By Rob Pavey | Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Magnolia Cemetery was inspired by a growing town's simple need: Existing graveyards at local churches were filling rapidly.
By Rob Pavey | Sunday, April 1, 2012
The motorcycle of fallen Deputy James D. Paugh was delivered Friday to the Augusta Museum of History, where it will be part of an exhibit on local law enforcement history.
By Meg Mirshak | Friday, March 9, 2012
Eight renovated historic buildings and their owners were recognized during Historic Augusta's 2011 Preservation Awards.
By Rob Pavey | Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011
A North Augusta man is being awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation's highest civilian honor, for his duty as part of the Montford Point Marines.
By Summer Moore | Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011
Today, river commerce on the Savannah is long gone, but the scattered remnants of a once-proud fleet can still be found.
By Rob Pavey | Friday, Nov. 11, 2011
On Oct. 29, a bus tour will bring awareness to important historical people and places in three black neighborhoods in Augusta.
By Meg Mirshak | Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011
Somewhere between wars and plagues and political scandal, we've had a chuckle or two.
By Bill Kirby | Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011
Cemeteries often become lost or overtaken by time and neglect, especially in rural areas.
By Rob Pavey | Friday, Oct. 7, 2011
Summerville residents gathered Friday not only to celebrate a new historic marker, but to mark the 150th anniversary of the former village's 1861 incorporation.
By Bianca Cain | Friday, Oct. 7, 2011
This year's tour of Homes will be a significant one for the Summerville Neighborhood Association. Summerville is celebrating its sesquicentennial since its incorporation as a city.
By Lynn Davidson | Sunday, Oct. 2, 2011
The tour guide at the Augusta Museum of History on Saturday looked almost like a mime with her white-gloved hands waving as she talked.
By Lynn Davidson | Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011
Archaeologists now have more than buried artifacts to piece together the story of Camp Lawton, where Union prisoners were housed in the final weeks of the Civil War.
By Rob Pavey | Friday, Aug 19, 2011
