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| designated_other1_num_position=bottom | nrhp_type = | image = Old Augusta Location.jpg | caption = Aerial view of Historic Site | location= Perry County, Mississippi | lat_degrees = 31 | lat_minutes = 13 | lat_seconds = 28 | lat_direction = N | long_degrees = 89 | long_minutes = 02 | long_seconds = 59 | long_direction = W | coord_display = inline,title | locmapin = Mississippi | map_caption = ''Old Augusta Historic Site'' in Mississippi | built = | architecture = | added = April 24, 1979〔(National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form (Old Augusta Historic Site) ) Retrieved 2014-11-12〕 | area = | governing_body = | refnum = 79001334 }} The Old Augusta Historic Site contains the remnants of Augusta,〔(Geographic Names Information System (Old Augusta, Mississippi) ) Retrieved 2014-11-12〕 Mississippi, a town that was founded along the Leaf River in 1812 and abandoned between 1902 and 1906.〔 The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and was designated a Mississippi Landmark in 1999. ==History== From 1818 until 1906, the town of Augusta served as the county seat for Perry County, Mississippi.〔(Dunbar Rowland (ed). 1907. ''Encyclopedia of Mississippi History: comprising sketches of counties, towns, events, institutions and persons (Volume I)'' ) Retrieved 2014-11-13〕〔(Perry County Chancery Court—History of Perry County, Mississippi ) Retrieved 2014-11-13〕 It was considered a major commercial and administrative center because a General Land Office was located there.〔(Land Patents in Mississippi, University of Southern Mississippi, McCain Library and Archives ) Retrieved 2014-11-13〕 When the Mobile, Jackson, and Kansas City Railroad〔(Mississippi Rails ) Retrieved 2014-11-15〕 was constructed south of Augusta, the town was moved to the railroad and developed as New Augusta. In the 1850s, Augusta was the site for the trial and hanging of the outlaw James Copeland.〔Pitts, J.R.S. 1874. Life and Bloody Career of the Executed Criminal, James Copeland. Pilot Publishing Co., Jackson, MS. (Available at Internet Archive ()) Republished as: Pitts, J.R.S. 1909. Life and Confession of the Noted Outlaw James Copeland. (Available at Google Books ()) Republished as: Pitts, J.R.S. and J.D.W. Guice. 1992. Life and Confession of the Noted Outlaw James Copeland. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.〕 In the 1890s, Davis Hawthorne was hanged in Augusta for the murder of his wife.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Old Augusta Historic Site」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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