Everything about Hamburg Sc totally explained
The dead town of
Hamburg, South Carolina was once a thriving upriver market located in
Edgefield District (now
Aiken County). It was founded by
Henry Shultz in 1821 as a rival place of trade to
Augusta, Georgia (Cordle 1940:82). In its heyday, 60,000 bales of cotton worth $2,000,000 were brought by wagon to Hamburg each year (Chapman 1897:237). This cotton continued by pole boat or steam boat to the ports of
Charleston or
Savannah for subsequent shipment to manufacturers in New England or Europe. With the
Augusta Canal (1848) and general expansion of railroads in the 1850's, strenuous overland hauls to Hamburg became unnecessary and the famous wagon traffic declined (Chapman 1897:238).
Hamburg became a
ghost town by the time of the
Civil War (Chapman 1897:20). It was repopulated and governed by freedmen until the
Hamburg Massacre of July 8, 1876, after which the town declined for good (Vandervelde 1999:154).
Augusta began construction of a river levee after a 1911 flood (Cashin 1980:210), but Hamburg remained unprotected, and floods forced out the last residents in 1929 (need citation). There are no visible remains of the original Town of Hamburg.
Geography
Occasionally styled as
Hamburgh, the town was named after Shultz's
home town in Germany, and was located at 33.4799°N, 81.9579°W directly across the
Savannah River from Augusta, Georgia. Population at its peak in the 1840s reached 2,500 (Haskel 1843:257), and exceeded 1,000 in the 1870s (Budiansky 2008). Under protection of the
Clarks Hill Dam and Lake, adjacent
North Augusta has begun to grow back over old Hamburg.
Notable People and Places
During his American tour as 'Guest of the Nation', the
Marquis de Lafayette visited Hamburg on March 24, 1825 (Cashin 1980:86).
The
South Carolina Railroad was the world's first railroad in the modern pattern. Providing scheduled steam service over 136 miles of line from Charleston to Hamburg, it was the world's longest at its completion in 1833 (Derrick 1930:58-59).
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