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The Augusta Canal, begun in 1845 and completed in 1847, provided power for one of the first cotton textile manufacturing plants in the South and marked the beginning of Augusta’s development as a major textile manufacturing center. The canal was built by Col. Henry R. Cumming, who hired engineers to survey the waterway. Water was let into the first level of the canal in 1846, and Charles Estes enlarged and lengthened it in 1875.
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