GETTING THERE –
 

PROGRAM –
Registration will begin at 1:00 p.m., Friday, July 17 at a specified location to be announced. The hospitality room will be open for visiting and display of silent auction items and memorabilia after 6 p.m. It will remain open until 11:00 p.m. Friday night and Saturday night except during the Friday night activities, the Saturday meeting, and the Saturday evening banquet.

Friday night from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m., our customary get-acquainted gathering will include the children’s program, refreshments, and an informal program.

Saturday’s activities will include special interest programs with guest speakers and the annual business meeting. Following the business meeting, attendees will be free to select their afternoon activities, go site seeing, or relax in the hotel. The hospitality room will be open during the afternoon following lunch. Lunch is not provided as part of the reunion package.

Saturday evening at 7:00 p.m., the customary "dress-up" banquet will be held in the ballroom at the hotel. A special program is planned including officer induction and a guest speaker/entertainer.

Sunday morning is the traditional Memorial Service at which we gather to honor and celebrate the lives of those who have passed on to their Heavenly reward.

Augusta Museum of History - The museum offers several award-winning regional history exhibits in several areas including the Augusta's Story, the Transportation Corridor, and the Susan Still Children's Discovery Gallery. The area of Augusta’s Story covers the 12,000- year journey beginning with prehistoric and Native American artifacts, featuring a full-scale diorama of Stallings Island culture. An interactive computer game takes visitors through the American Revolution. Slave-made pottery and other artifacts explore the Antebellum era. The CSA Second National Flag that flew over the Augusta Arsenal and a 12-pounder bronze Napoleon Cannon tube manufactured at the Augusta foundry highlight Civil War history. A reconstructed, 56-foot Petersburg Boat speaks to river and commercial activities. The devastation of the 1916 fire is told by an 1869 steam fire engine and historical photographs. More recent history, including World War II, the construction of the Savannah River Plant, the Civil Rights Movement, Astronaut Susan L. Still and Godfather of Soul James Brown. The Transportation Corridor covers over 150 years of Augusta transportation history and features a 1900 Farm Wagon, a 1917 Steam Locomotive, a reconstructed 1930s Gas Station, and a 1952 Dodge Power Wagon. In the Susan L. Still Children's Discovery Gallery, kids, young and old can fly a plane, command a space shuttle mission, or canoe the Savannah River

Confederate Powderworks Chimney - The Powderworks was a gunpowder factory during the Civil War, the only permanent structures completed by the Confederate States of America. Col. G. W. Rains chose the site between the Canal and Savannah River in Augusta, Georgia because of its rail, river, canal and railroad connections. Construction began in September 1861 with a steam engine purchased from the Atlanta Flour Mill owned by Richard Peters. In only seven months, the Powderworks was producing gunpowder. The Confederate Powderworks was the second largest gunpowder factory in the world at that time. More than 2,750,000 pounds of high-quality gunpowder was produced here before its closure on April 18, 1865. This was most of the gunpowder used by the Confederacy. It has been said the Confederacy never lost a battle for lack of powder.

Although the massive works were dismantled after the war ended, the commandant and officer responsible for their construction, Colonel G. W. Rains, asked in 1872, that the Obelisk Chimney be spared as he had designed it to "...remain a monument to the Confederacy should the Powderworks pass away." The Smokestack was spared and is the only remaining structure. It is said that the textile mills, built in the 1870's and 80's and still in use today, are similar in style to the Powderworks structures. The mills are named King and Sibley.

Ezekiel Harris House Museum - This house, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, is an outstanding example of Federal style architecture and was fully restored in 1964. The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America states that the house is "... the finest eighteenth-century house surviving in Georgia..." As visitors enter the impressive vaulted hallway, they get an immediate impression of life in the Federal Period in Georgia. According to ghost lore, a Revolutionary War soldier was hanged from the stairwell of this home. At times, the sound of a man swinging from a taut rope is heard. The soldier himself is also seen from time to time.

Magnolia Cemetery - More than 500 CSA soldiers and seven generals rest in this 60-acre cemetery. Other notables from the period also rest there. The eastern wall of the cemetery, which served as a defensive line for Augusta in 1864, bears patches from Civil War cannon emplacements.

Meadow Garden - Historic Farm House Home of George Walton - This 1790-1804 house was built by the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence for his family. Meadow Garden captures the spirit and past of its most famous resident. Along with the period furnishings of the house, visitors can see the medicinal herb garden, the kitchen garden and the weavers garden. Plantings include flowers, fruits, and other plants typical of the period in which the house was used. Operated by the DAR.

National Science Center Ft. Discovery - The National Science Center is the only science center dedicated to exciting students across the nation about math, science, and technology. Math and science are not considered lifeless, boring subjects to be approached with skepticism, but as fascinating areas of knowledge which are great fun to explore. The center’s exhibits are challenging, entertaining, educational, and interactive.

President Woodrow Wilson’s Boyhood Home - Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, lived with his family in Augusta for nearly 13 years between 1858 and 1870. His father was named pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Augusta. President Wilson spent more years in the Presbyterian manse (1860-1870) than in any other dwelling place. Historic Augusta, Inc. acquired the home in 1991. Both the Service Wing and the Carriage House have been restored to their original design.

US Army Signal Corp Museum at Ft. Gordon - The exhibits trace the development of the Signal Corps from its beginning in 1860 , through the present. Artifacts are presented in a very orderly fashion and include The Congressional Medal of Honor; items from Albert J. Myer, the founder of the Signal Corps and Civil War Signal Corps, such as the Beardslee Electro Magneto; circa 1870 meteorological office, Augusta, Georgia; signaling equipment used out west circa 1880; Spanish-American war equipment such as the telephone used by General Wheeler at the battle of San Juan Hill; The Greeley expedition to the Arctic; Signal Corps Aviation and "Snoopy"; WWI "Hello Girls" ; Trench Warfare; WWII Signal Message Center; Signal WAC's" Korea ; Signal Corps motion pictures and "Oscar"; Pigeons; Signals in Space; Cold War Viet Nam Prisoner of War and Signal Corps equipment; and Desert Shield.