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Rise and Fall of Henry Schultz and Hamburg Town
A penniless German migrant Henry Schultz arrives in Augusta in 1806 and amasses wealth by river trade and a toll bridge. He founds Hamburg across the Savannah, builds warehouses, a wharf, and a bank, but conflicts with Augusta and a later mortgage crisis erase his fortune. Hamburg thrives briefly before railroads and Civil War decline the town, with Schultz dying in 1851. The article notes Hamburg’s remaining ruins, a private museum, and local memories in New Hamburg today.
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Henry Schultz
Augusta
Henry
Savannah
South Carolina
Savannah River
Schultz
Cooper
John McKinnie
McKinnie
Georgia
Georgia Steam Boat Company
Hamburg
Germany
Bridge Bank
Assembly
Charleston
S.C
Columbia
Greenville
Old Hamburg
Fifth Street