Augusta Canal National Heritage Area

Augusta Canal is the main modern waterway in the American South in nonstop use since it was worked in 1845. A wellspring of water, power, and transportation, the trench was to a great extent in charge of the city's mechanical blast. After it was augmented and developed in the 1870s, an extensive number of plants that depended on its energy, particularly material factories, were based on the channel, boosting the city's modern blast.

In the 1890s, the city introduced the new, noteworthy water drawing station at mid-waterway to supplant the first one, and the pump is as yet providing Augusta inhabitants with water today. Augusta Canal has been announced a National Heritage Area, and a standout amongst the most forcing structures, the huge Enterprise Mill, has been changed over into a private and office complex. The Augusta Canal National Heritage Discovery Center is additionally housed there.