One of our tours with Jen & Bill was to the Savannah Rapids/Augusta Canal area. Bill runs almost daily there and it is certainly a beautiful place. The Confederate Powderworks chimney is all that remains of the gunpowder factory that operated between 1862 and 1865, the only structure authorized and built by the Confederacy. Nearby is the King Mill built in 1883, by 1900 it had 60,000 spindles and 1,800 looms producing cotton sheeting and shirting. You see the influence of northern Italy in the beautiful towers and brickwork. There is so much history in the south - we could spend weeks here and never see it all.
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