Did You Know: Hamburg, SC is Now North Augusta

Do you know that Hamburg SC, home of some of the Congregation Children of Israel original congregants, is now North Augusta?
The founder of Hamburg (Aiken County) SC was Henry Shultz from Germany who arrived in Augusta in 1806 as a simple day worker. Shultz became a successful businessman who built a bridge across the Savannah River to get to the Georgia side. Following the Civil War, Hamburg was repopulated and governed by freedmen who began to redevelop Hamburg. After the deaths and damage in the Hamburg Massacre of July 8, 1876, reconstructionist action suppressed voter rights of Blacks and caused the town to decline for good. Augusta began construction of a river levee after a 1911 flood, but Hamburg remained unprotected. Particularly disastrous floods finally forced out the last residents in 1929 and that land became part of North Augusta in Aiken County.