Augustine Creek is a freshwater tidal creek located in Chatham County in the southeast corner of the state of Georgia. Inhabited since the earliest times, its main agricultural usage in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was to flood the surrounding marshlands for the cultivation of rice. Remains of this sort include three or four large tidal gates in differing states of decay, a rice trunk, and a possible rice or lumber mill, the latter activity having also been very important in the area. Also in the creek are the remains of a circa early nineteenth century barge-like vessel of a heretofore unknown type located more than a mile inland. The vessel would have been about 100 feet long with a beam of around 22 feet, a huge size for its distance up the creek. The creek represents tidewater plantation life near Savannah up to the present time. The area is presently threatened due to proposed expansion by the Georgia Ports Authority.
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