Riverwalk Augusta

Sites along the Riverwalk include St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Georgia Cyber Center, and the Morris Museum of Art.

Seven years later, the Flood Control Act of 1936 was passed into law which authorized the United States Army Corps of Engineers to construct a new levee along the Savannah River to its current existing level it sits at today.

[1] After nearly four years of planning and working with state and federal partners for approval, a groundbreaking ceremony was held in February 1986 to kick of the Riverwalk improvements.

The plan called for a brick walkway on top of the levee, two bulkheads into the Savannah River, and construction of Oglethorpe Park near the Sixth Street Railroad Bridge.

In 1989, a second ceremony was held with the announcement of construction of a new 1,800 seat amphitheater located on Ninth Street which was later named after local Augustan singer Jessye Norman.