Living History Park takes visitors back to colonial days
NORTH AUGUSTA — People visiting a park in Aiken County got a look at what life was like in colonial times this weekend. North Augusta's Living Hist...
NORTH AUGUSTA — People visiting a park in Aiken County got a look at what life was like in colonial times this weekend. North Augusta's Living History Park hosted an event April 22-23 titled Under the Crown to explain what life was like in North Augusta and neighboring Augusta during British rule, particularly British rule during the American Revolution. The British regular army arrived in Georgia in 1778, took Augusta in January 1779, retreated less than a month later, but then retook Augusta in 1780 and held it for about a year until the Colonial Army under Andrew Pickens (the namesake of Pickens County) and Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee (the father of Confederate General Robert E.