ANCIENT DAYS IN AUGUSTA

Postcard – Bay Street
[Burdishaw and Symms Collection]

“To begin with, Bay street
originally extended to East
Boundary, with homes all the
way facing the river, a road, a
walk and trees. So my mother
told me…” (p.1)

According to Benson, “Everybody loved
the Katie.
[Loose Photographs Collection] rl01533

“But the faithful old “Katie” made her
regular arrival on Friday afternoon. My
mother said she was the second
“Katie”, the first having burned but her
steel hull was salvaged and she was
rebuilt on it. The “Katie” was a matronly
old dame; fat, forty, and if not ungainly,
certainly she was not sprightly nor
lissome.” (p.36)

View of Greene St. from the Bell Tower
[Loose Photographs Collection rl00859]

“Many of the Broad and Greene St. lots
ran through the block with stables for the
horses and buggies or carriages on Ellis or
Reynolds.” (p.67)