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The dead town of Hamburg, South Carolina was once a thriving upriver market located in 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 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 , 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). REFERENCES
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