Interchange should open next month
Construction of an interchange along U.S. Highway 1 at the Fifth Street Bridge exit should be complete by Nov. 1, officials said.
Construction of an interchange along U.S. Highway 1 at the Fifth Street Bridge exit should be complete by Nov. 1, officials said.
The Hampton Terrace Hotel was built in 1903, during the Gilded Age. It could accommodate 500 guests on five floors within its 300 rooms.
Two of North Augusta's most recognizable landmarks are under new ownership. Kelly and Diana Combs closed on Rosemary and Lookaway halls Sept. 9. The couple, who currently live in California, plan to make Rosemary Hall their primary residence.
Mossy Oak, which is behind Edgewood Square off of Pinewood Road, is unique to the North Augusta-Augusta area because it is the only subdivision in which each house is and will be constructed out of BluWood, said Bear Shelton, the vice president of BluWood South.
Where the Seven Gables once majestically overlooked downtown North Augusta, there is only a patio and a few old motel rooms. It's been one year since the house went up in flames, and the historic land is waiting for someone to buy it.
The Palmetto Terrace Ballroom at the municipal building is becoming a destination for wedding parties and local businesses, but it's not putting the community center out of business any time soon.
New sketches of the town center at Hammond's Ferry show a more intimate park setting and entertainment venue with about 40,000 square feet of available commercial space.
In the mid-1850s, a young James U. Jackson reportedly stood on the Georgia banks of the Savannah River and dreamed of building a city on the other side.
Sallie Dubay and her husband, Steve, had no plans to move from their Savannah Barony home a year ago. Then she saw Carl and Polly Schutte's house. An avid gardener, Dubay was so impressed by the evidence of their green thumbs that she often took friends by to show the yard to them.
In the History of North Augusta Volume I , a grainy black and white photograph shows the construction of a two-story house in the middle of nowhere in 1898. The Scott family built the home on what later became Georgia Avenue, one of the main arteries through town.
