Saint Paul's Episcopal Church Cemetery in Augusta, Georgia

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Augusta, Georgia 30901 United States

Coordinates: 33.47584, -81.96165
706-724-2485
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This site selected by fur traders Kennedy O'Brien and Roger de Lacy as a trading post to be nearer the Indians than Savannah Town, (in present Beech Island). To protect them and others, General Oglethorpe in 1735 built here Fort Augusta, maintaining a garrison until 1767. In 1750, there was built the first St. Paul's Church "under the curtain of the fort." During the Revolution, the British on this spot erected Fort Cornwallis, which was captured by the Americans by surprise September 14, 1780, but soon abandoned to the British. In May, 1781, an attack under General Andrew Pickens and Lieutenant Colonel "Light Horse Harry" Lee, and the use of a Mayham tower, forced surrender by the British Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Brown, capitulation taking place on June 5, 1781. In 1786 fortifications removed and new church built by the Trustees of Richmond Academy for use by all denominations. In 1818 site conveyed to Trustees of Episcopal Church, who constructed a new St. Paul's Church, which was destroyed in the 1916 fire and replaced by the present structure. From the Georgia Historical Commission.