Happy 289th Birthday to the city of Augusta!
On June 14, 1736, British Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe established what would become the city of Augusta when he instructed Noble Jones to lay out the first 40 lots on the banks of the Savannah River for the city.
Named after Princess Augusta, the wife of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, the city was the state capital from 1785 to 1795. In 1788, the Georgia state convention ratified the U.S. Constitution in Augusta…