AUGUSTA FUN FACTS
- Second largest city in Georgia
- Second oldest city in Georgia
- Home of the Masters Golf Tournament
- Home of the Godfather of Soul,
James Brown
- Birthplace of singers Amy Grant,
Jessye Norman and Terri Gibbs; actors Laurence Fishburne, Danny
Glover and Joe Penny; Boxer Ray Mercer, Novelist Frank Yerby,
WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan, and pro golfer Larry Mize
- Second largest inland cotton market
in the world during the cotton boom
- Home of the oldest newspaper in
the South, The Augusta Chronicle
- Home of poets Richard Henry Wilde
and James Ryder Randall
- Home of George Walton, the youngest
signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Home of Springfield Baptist Church,
the oldest independently formed black congregation in the United
States with an unbroken recond of existence
- Headquarters of E-Z-GO Textron
and Club Car, the number one and two manufacturers of golf carts
- Home of Jones Creek, the number
one rated public golf course in Georgia
- Home of the largest man-made lake
east of the Mississippi River, Thurmond Lake
- Home of the last standing permanent
structure built by the confederacy, the Confederate Powderworks
Factory Chimney
- Home of the world's richest dragboat
race, the Hardee's Augusta Southern Nationals
- Headquarters of the National Barrel
Horse Association
- Location of baseball player Ty
Cobb's first professional game and his home from 1904 to 1932.
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