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This tract held Mackay's trading post, where Loyalist Thomas Brown withstood Elijah Clarke's Patriots during the bloody 1780 Siege of Augusta. It later became Harrisburg and site of the city's first arsenal and the Augusta Canal.
Historical Marker
White House Tract
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About this site
White House Tract is a historical marker in Augusta, Richmond County, erected in 1978. It is one of 148 historical markers documented in Richmond County, among 249 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.4845, -81.9942 near Augusta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Harris-Pearson-Walker House (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Confederate Obelisk-Chimney, Explosion At The Confederate Powder Works, and The Confederate States Powder Works.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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