Shamrock Mill Site, Augusta, Richmond County, GA. Surveyed as HAER GA,123-AUG,53-, with a 400-word written history.
“All traces of the Shamrock Mill building have disappeared.”
Written record, HAER GA,123-AUG,53- survey. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER GA,123-AUG,53- · the record runs 400 words · one of 101 surveyed structures published for this county.
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All traces of the Shamrock Mill building have disappeared. Its site between the Seaboard Coastline Railroad tracks and the Augusta Canal is a convenient parking space and dump for fishermen and picnickers visiting the nearby Rae's Creek. From the canal bank at the old "tin house gate," however, one can trace the path of the old wood sluiceway (head- race) to the mill. At the end of what appears to be evenly separated brick bases, the ground quickly descends to Rae's Creek and a jumble of twisted guide irons. These once supported the Shamrock Mill's turbine.
The headings the report itself prints. Each one jumps to where it begins.
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Robert L. Spudet It is understood that access to this material rests on the condition that should any of it be used in any form or by any means, the author of such material and the Historic American Engineering Record of the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service at all times be given proper credit. # Shamrock Mill Site HAER GA-18 (Page 2) #
Shamrock Mill Site
William H. Goodrich, a cashier with the Georgia Railroad and Bank- ing Company, built the Shamrock Mill in [1] The smallest of the Augusta, Georgia, textile mills it had less than spindles it operated sporadically and changed hands at least once within a decade after it was built. In historian Charles C. Dutcher called it the Warwick Mill. [2] Sometime before the mill was liquidated or destroyed, and if any part of the structure stood by it would have been washed away that year by water from the breakage of the canal and the dam creating Lake Olmstead. According to Sanborn-Perris fire insurance maps, the mill was com- posed of a one-story brick carding and spinning room, and an attached one-story and basement picker room. A small turbine powered the mill's machinery.
[3] Shamrock Hill Site HAER GA-18 (Page 3) Footnotes 1. Augusta Chronicle, "Trade Issue," October 9, 2. Charles C. Jones and Salem Dutcher, Memorial History of Augusta (Syracuse, New York:'* Mason & Co., p. 3. Sanborn-Perris fire insurance maps for Augusta, in Map Room, University of Georgia, Athens. m
| Augusta, Georgia | The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town. |
| Richmond County, Georgia | 83 topographic sheets across the county. |
| Library of Congress record | The original filed report as the survey filed it. |
The federal surveyors worked through Augusta building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.
| Sheet | Structure | Survey | Report |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Veterans Hospital No. 62 | HABS GA-2424 | 13,149 words | |
| Augusta Canal | HAER GA,123-AUG,41- | 9,732 words | |
| Sibley Manufacturing Company | HAER GA,123-AUG,54- | 9,524 words | |
| John P. King Manufacturing Company | HAER GA,123-AUG,46- | 8,344 words | |
| New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam | HAER GA-167 | 7,819 words | |
| Sand Bar Ferry Bridge | HAER GA-146 | 6,443 words | |
| U.S. Veterans Hospital No. 62 | HABS GA-2424-A | 5,487 words | |
| Augusta Water Works | HAER GA,123-AUG,42- | 5,006 words | |
| Georgia Iron Works | HAER GA,123-AUG,47- | 4,819 words | |
| Enterprise Manufacturing Company | HAER GA,123-AUG,44- | 4,468 words | |
| U.S. Veterans Hospital No. 62 | HABS GA-2424-B | 4,450 words | |
| U.S. Veterans Hospital No. 62 | HABS GA-2424-D | 2,671 words | |
| Augusta Machine Works | HAER GA,123-AUG,45- | 2,527 words | |
| White House | HABS GA,123-AUG,8- | 2,160 words | |
| U.S. Veterans Hospital No. 62 | HABS GA-2424-C | 2,070 words | |
| Greene Street Historic District | HABS GA,123-AUG,56- | 1,958 words | |
| Hight & MacMurphy Foundry | HAER GA,123-AUG,50A | 1,932 words | |
| Dartmouth Spinning Company | HAER GA,123-AUG,51- | 1,694 words | |
| Russell & Simmons Factory | HAER GA,123-AUG,58- | 1,478 words | |
| Paragon Mill | HAER GA,123-AUG,57- | 1,458 words | |
| Augusta Railway Company | HAER GA,123-AUG,43- | 1,432 words | |
| Crescent Grain & Feed Mill | HAER GA,123-AUG,55- | 1,350 words | |
| Campbell Building | HABS GA,123-AUG,62- | 1,088 words | |
| Atlantic Coastline Railroad Freight Warehouse | HABS GA-2377 | 1,064 words |
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