St. Paul's
Saint Paul's Episcopal Church is located downtown at the east end of Riverwalk on Reynolds Street downtown. This 1918 building is the fourth structure on the site for St. Paul's, built after the fire that destroyed much of the downtown area in March 1916. The church was built in 1750 as part of the original Fort Augusta complex.

The Celtic cross in the rear churchyard, adjoining the Riverwalk, designates the site of Fort Augusta, constructed by the British in 1739.

The cemetery around the church was used during colonial days through 1816, and is the final resting place of many notable Georgians including signer of the Constitution, William Few.

The historical marker located in front reads as follows:
"This site selected by fur traders Kennedy O'Brien and Roger deLacy as a trading post to be nearer the Indians than Savannah Town (in present Beech Island). To protect them and others, General Oglethrope in 1735 built here Fort Augusta (so named after a royal Princess), maintaining a garrison until 1767. Here he met chiefs of the Chickasaws and Cherokees in 1739 to pacify them after a smallpox epidemic. In 1750, there was built the first St. Paul's Church "under the curtain of the fort." In 1773, Cherokees and Creeks, Catawbas, Chickasaws and Choctaws met here with governors of Georgia, North and South Carolina and Virginia and the King's representative and signed a treaty of peace. Again, in 1773, Cherokees and Creeks here ceded two million acres in North Georgia. 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 a new church built by the Trustees of Richmond Academy for use by all denominations. In 1818 the site conveyed to the Trustees of the Episcopal Church, who constructed a new St. Paul's Church, which was destroyed in the 1916 fire and replaced by the present structure."

Provided by: Augusta Metropolitan Convention & Vistors Bureau