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Augusta Chronicle APRIL 20, 1739 Much of what we know about this region before it had houses and highways, we learned from William Bartram, who was born this day in 1739. Bartram, for whom Georgias Bartram Trail is named, was Americas first great natural historian. He offered some of the earliest glimpses of Colonial Augusta, as detailed in "Travels," his meticulous record of his journey through the region.  "The village of Augusta," he wrote," is situated on a rich and fertile plain, in the ...