63-544: [REDACTED] Look up augusta in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Augusta may refer to: Places [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Augusta, Western Australia Brazil [ edit ] Rua Augusta (São Paulo) Canada [ edit ] Augusta, Ontario North Augusta, Ontario Augusta Street (Hamilton, Ontario) France [ edit ] Augusta Suessionum ("Augusta of
126-457: A German language holy card dedicated to St. Augustine lying in the nearby field previously chosen for the building of their parish church. At Fr. Pierz's suggestion, the town was named for the Saint, although the city's name was somehow garbled in the process. The original holy card, however, is still preserved in the parish archives. Similarly to many other Stearns County German communities,
189-538: A Croatian island Empress Augusta Bay , Bougainville Island People [ edit ] Augusta (honorific) , a title used for the Empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires Augusta (name) , a given name and surname Roman roads [ edit ] Via Augusta Via Claudia Augusta Science [ edit ] 254 Augusta , an asteroid Augusta family , an asteroid family Augusta ,
252-455: A Roman legion Augusta (album) , by Willie Nelson and Don Cherry Lancia Augusta , an automobile Augusta (grape) , an Italian grape variety The Augustas , a homemade movie about towns named "Augusta" See also [ edit ] Shire of Augusta-Margaret River , Australia Augusta Euphratensis ("Euphratean Augusta"), a Roman province in Syria under Diocletian Aust ,
315-598: A hundred people, representing virtually every family, came. They came on foot, some as far as six miles, walked two by two and recited the rosary . A large spring wagon accompanied the people and carried the lunch." According to Fr. Robert J. Voigt, while praying the rosary, it is traditional in Stearns County German culture to mention which of the Mysteries of the Rosary is being focussed upon right after
378-592: A lifeboat, Sheringham, Norfolk, England Other uses [ edit ] Augusta Apartment Building , listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C., US Augustan History (Latin: Historia Augusta ), a half-mockumentary biography of the Roman emperors of the 1st and 2nd century Augusta Heritage Festival , a festival in West Virginia, US Legio II Augusta ,
441-653: A long train." According to Fr. Coleman J. Barry, there is traditionally a very intensive rivalry between parish choirs in Stearns County German culture. From the time of early settlement, every local parish choir used B.H.F. Hellebusch 's Katholisches Gesang und Gebet Buch and the six Sing Messen found therein until the Regensburg-style of Gregorian Chant was introduced beginning in the 1880s. Parish choir-directors often doubled as local school-masters and were traditionally referred to as, ( German : die Kirchen Väter ), or "The Church Fathers". Catholic hymns in
504-506: A male householder with no wife present, and 18.8% were non-families. 13.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.86 and the average family size was 3.13. The median age in the city was 36.6 years. 27.1% of residents were under the age of 18; 7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 28.2% were from 25 to 44; 29.4% were from 45 to 64; and 8.3% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of
567-412: A monotypic spider genus in the family Araneidae with the only species Augusta glyphica Augusta (plant) , a genus in the family Rubiaceae Ponera augusta , a species of ant Ships [ edit ] USS Augusta , U.S. Navy ships named Augusta HMS Augusta , Royal Navy ships named Augusta Princess Augusta (ship) , a British ship wrecked in 1738 Augusta (lifeboat) ,
630-459: A pledge to build a chapel and every year make a pilgrimage to it to pray that any future plagues be averted." Local farmer Henry Kaeter donated a plot of land "half-way between their parish churches - on a small tree-crowned hill". Ignatz Henkemeyer later recalled, "The grasshoppers were real bad. Everything dried up. After we finished at St. Boniface's, the rain started to fall, and all the hoppers flew up and disappeared." Annual pilgrimages to
693-806: A spot on a granite outcrop near Flinders Bay which was excavated and reported on in 2021, revealing grooves and other signs that people ground stones to make tools here around 9,700 years ago. The coastline near the Augusta area was first sighted by Europeans in March 1622 when the Dutch East India Company ship Leeuwin (Lioness) mapped and named the land north of Cape Leeuwin between Hamelin Bay and Point D'Entrecasteaux ' t Landt van de Leeuwin . In 1801 Captain Matthew Flinders named
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#1732765404129756-548: A timber mill at nearby Kudardup and the completion of jetties at Hamelin Bay and Flinders Bay. Augusta was a stopping place on the Busselton to Flinders Bay branch railway (now converted into a walking and cycling trail named the Wadandi Track ), which was government run from the 1920s to the 1950s. Prior to that M. C. Davies had a timber railway system that went to both Hamelin Bay and Flinders Bay jetties in
819-466: A village in Gloucestershire, England, claimed to be derived from Augusta Augustus (disambiguation) August (disambiguation) Augusts (given name) Agusta (disambiguation) Port Augusta (disambiguation) Agusta , later AgustaWestland , a helicopter manufacturer. Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
882-550: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Augusta, Western Australia Augusta is a town on the south-west coast of Western Australia , where the Blackwood River flows into Flinders Bay . It is the nearest town to Cape Leeuwin , on the furthest southwest corner of the Australian continent . In the 2001 census it had a population of 1,091; by 2016
945-534: Is now Stearns County, each centered on a church-oriented hamlet. As the farmers prospered, the small frame churches were replaced by more substantial buildings of brick or stone such as St. Mary, Help of Christians , a Gothic Revival stone structure built in 1873. Stearns County retains in its German character and is still home to one of the largest rural Catholic populations in Anglo-America." St. Augusta received its name because Fr. Pierz accidentally found
1008-597: The First World War , or even with the latter's regular denunciation of all allegedly Hyphenated Americans or with his support for the use of coercion in the schools by adherents of the English only movement . The real cause was the widespread shame, horror, self-hatred, and embarrassment felt by most German-Americans over Adolf Hitler 's Enabling Act of 1933 , the Nuremberg Laws , and, most of all, over
1071-545: The German language ( German : Kirchenlieder ), which were always carefully chosen to fit the occasion, were also traditionally sung during Low Mass . Due to these intensive traditional parish rivalries, whenever the St. Boniface's Day pilgrimages would be followed by a Solemn High Mass at the chapel, both parish choirs would take turns singing. The Mass would always be followed with an open air dinner accompanied by dancing and
1134-668: The Memorial to the German Resistance at the Bendlerblock in Berlin . Sometimes, similarly to traditional Irish Pattern Days , rivalry between the two parishes would sometimes result in fist fights during the dinner, particularly when alcohol was involved. According to Fr. Robert J. Voigt, "In 1960, Fr. Louis Traufler, O.S.B., told this writer about the events at St. Boniface Chapel, which he himself had witnessed. At
1197-449: The Name of Jesus during each Hail Mary . Local pilgrims praying the rosary upon St. Boniface's Day , would also add, following every Hail Mary, the additional petition, ( German : "Heilige Bonifacius, bitte für uns!" ) ("St. Boniface, pray for us!") Ignatz Henkemeyer also recalled, "I remember looking down the hill. When the people came up the hill, singing all the way, it looked like
1260-792: The Napoleonic Wars , Ich hatt' einen Kameraden , in honor of their fallen friends. (see German Americans in the American Civil War ). While no longer commonly performed locally, the latter song continues to be played at German and Austrian military funerals , in mid-November at the annual ceremonies in both the Bundestag and at the Neue Wache for Volkstrauertag , the German Federal Republic 's equivalent to Memorial Day , and every July 20 at
1323-534: The Swan River had already been granted , and suggested that they form a new sub-colony in the vicinity of Cape Leeuwin. The following month, Stirling sailed with a party of prospective settlers on board Emily Taylor . After arriving at the mouth of the Blackwood River, the party spent four days exploring the area. Stirling then confirmed his decision to establish a sub-colony, the settlers' property
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#17327654041291386-467: The Tridentine Mass . By St. Boniface's Day 1961, the chapel was ready for the annual pilgrimages to be revived, which still sometimes continues. Trees were planted around the site by two volunteers in 1962. Meanwhile, the last documented sighting of live Rocky Mountain locusts took place in southern Canada in 1902. In 2014, the species of insects which was once numerous enough to block out
1449-623: The "south-western, and most projecting part of Leeuwin's Land" Cape Leeuwin. Augusta was founded in 1830. In March of that year, a number of settlers, including John Molloy and members of the Bussell and Turner families, had arrived at the Swan River Colony on board Warrior . On their arrival the Lieutenant-Governor Captain James Stirling advised them that most of the good land near
1512-494: The 1890s. On 30 July 1986, a pod of 114 false killer whales became stranded at Town Beach, Augusta. In a three-day operation, co-ordinated by the Department of Conservation and Land Management , volunteers from around Western Australia, including forestry workers, wildlife officers, surfers and townsfolk, carried 96 of the whales on trucks to more sheltered waters. The surviving whales were then successfully guided out into
1575-531: The Henry Kaeter farm was purchased by Martin Libbesmeier, who was intrigued to discover the disused and crumbling chapel near his home. The 1930s were a time, however, of rapidly escalating shame-based assimilation among German-Americans . This had very little to do with the pervasive anti-German sentiment and atrocity propaganda spread by both Wellington House and President Woodrow Wilson during
1638-1277: The Masters Tournament Augusta, Illinois Augusta, Indiana Augusta, Indianapolis, Indiana Augusta, Kansas Augusta, Kentucky Augusta, Maine (capital city of Maine) Augusta, Michigan Augusta, Minnesota Augusta, Missouri Augusta AVA , a viticultural area Augusta, Montana Augusta, New Jersey Augusta, New York Augusta Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota Augusta, West Virginia Augusta, Wisconsin Fort Augusta , Pennsylvania Mount Augusta , Alaska North Augusta, South Carolina St. Augusta, Minnesota Sipapu Bridge , Utah, formerly named as 'Augusta' Elsewhere [ edit ] Augusta Euphratensis , Late Roman and Byzantine province in Syrian region Augusta Raurica ("Rauric Augusta"), Kaiseraugst (Augst), Switzerland Augusta Traiana ("Trajan Augusta"), Stara Zagora, Bulgaria Bracara Augusta , Braga, Portugal Isca Augusta ("Augustan Isca"), Caerleon, Wales Londinium (former name Augusta), London, England Lastovo (former name Augusta),
1701-904: The Mayer family was very heavily involved in St. Mary, Help of Christians Parish, and Baldassar Mayer helped build the current church building during the early 1870s. He always retained, however, a very strong sense of pride in his Jewish ancestry and, shortly before his death on 4 July 1890, Mayer asked for his kippah , sat up in his deathbed, and sang two traditional blessings from the Hebrew Bible as an expression of his love for his family and his hopes for their future. Baldassar Mayer sang Eshet Ḥayil ( Hebrew : אשת חיל , "Woman of Valor") Book of Proverbs Chapter 31 Verses 10–31, over his wife, and Birkut Kohanim ( Hebrew : ברכת כהנים , "The Priestly Blessing"), Book of Numbers Chapter 6 Verses 23-27, over their many children and grandchildren. Just like
1764-469: The Prohibition Law was repealed (1933), Matt and Marie Ramacher bought the former Beumer Store and opened a grocery store and bar in downtown St. Augusta. This was the first bar in operation in St. Augusta Township after beer sales were legal again." Originally Saint Augusta Township, it incorporated as a city on May 2, 2000 in order to avoid annexation by the city of Saint Cloud . St. Augusta
1827-707: The Salassi") or Aosta Augusta Taurinorum ("Augusta of the Taurini") or Turin Perugia or Augusta Perusia Spain [ edit ] Emerita Augusta , Mérida, Spain Caesar Augusta, Zaragoza , Spain United States [ edit ] Augusta, Arkansas Augusta Charter Township, Michigan Augusta County, Virginia Augusta, Georgia Augusta National Golf Club ("Augusta"), home of
1890-758: The Suessii"), Soissons Augusta Viromanduorum ("Augusta of the Viromandui"), Saint-Quentin Germany [ edit ] Augusta Treverorum ("Augusta of the Treveri") or Trier Augusta Vangionum ("Augusta of the Vangiones") or Worms Augusta Vindelicorum ("Augusta of the Vindelici") or Augsburg Italy [ edit ] Augusta, Sicily Augusta Praetoria Salassorum ("Praetorian Augusta of
1953-400: The average family size was 3.38. In the township the population was spread out, with 31.6% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 22.9% from 45 to 64, and 6.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 102.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.9 males. The median income for a household in
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2016-487: The bay, flanked by a flotilla of boats, board riders and swimmers. A memorial to the rescue now overlooks Town Beach. The Augusta boat harbour on the coast towards Cape Leeuwin has replaced a range of points where boats have operated from between the mouth of the Blackwood River around to the area of the former Flinders Bay jetties. Many tourist websites and information conflate Augusta and Cape Leeuwin with features that exist nearby. The Augusta townsite now also includes
2079-415: The chapel to pray, but also wanted to have some fun." After 1897, the pilgrimages ceased and the chapel was abandoned and forgotten. When asked why the traditional pilgrimage stopped, Mrs. Mary Kenning recalled, "The people who had made the vow were all dead or too old to go. Their children hadn't made the promise so they didn't have to continue the act. I guess it sort of came to a standstill." In 1937,
2142-793: The city of St. Cloud . The population was 3,497 at the 2020 census . St. Augusta is part of the Saint Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area . Writing in 1997, Jewish-American historian of America's religious architecture Marilyn J. Chiat described the early history of the region as follows, "Father Francis X. Pierz , a missionary to Indians in central Minnesota, published a series of articles in 1851 in German Catholic newspapers advocating Catholic settlement in central Minnesota. Large numbers of immigrants, mainly German , but also Slovenian and Polish , responded. Over 20 parishes where formed in what
2205-546: The city was 50.5% male and 49.5% female. As of the census of 2000, there were 3,065 people, 987 households, and 838 families living in the township. The population density was 81.4 inhabitants per square mile (31.4/km ). There were 1,000 housing units at an average density of 26.6 per square mile (10.3/km ). The racial makeup of the township was 98.79% White , 0.07% African American , 0.03% Native American , 0.52% Asian , 0.03% from other races , and 0.55% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.39% of
2268-419: The city was 97.4% White , 0.5% African American , 0.1% Native American , 0.7% Asian , 0.3% from other races , and 0.9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.6% of the population. There were 1,154 households, of which 39.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 71.9% were married couples living together, 4.6% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.7% had
2331-594: The early settlers of St. Augusta included at least one Catholic family of German Jewish descent. The family patriarch was Baldassar Mayer (1816-1890), a native of the Grand Duchy of Baden . Raised in Orthodox Judaism , Mayer had converted to Roman Catholicism before his marriage to Dutch-American Gentile Elizabeth Hagedorn in Mercer County, Ohio . From the time of their first arrival in 1865,
2394-461: The end of the harvest season, Kirchweih Fest , the time when they had first dedicated their hard won churches to God. The pastors always attended, and favorite characters of the community were called upon to do stunts or recite poems of their childhood days in Europe. Some of the men would recall fire and brimstone mission sermons of former years and even repeat them. Always there was the beer, and when
2457-569: The former separate Flinders Bay community at its southern end, where there had been a jetty, railway terminus, and whaling location. The new Augusta Boat Harbour to the south of Flinders Bay is well outside the townsite. In 2009, 2 Oceans FM was set up at the Augusta Community Centre and began broadcasting on 97.1 MHz FM. In 1961, over 40,000 hectares (100,000 acres) of farms, bushland and forests between Margaret River and Augusta were destroyed by bushfires . Augusta
2520-513: The four-year-long Locust Plague of 1874 , "These huge insects destroyed everything in their path - crops, clothing hanging on wash lines, even fence posts. Nothing was safe, and many families lost everything they were growing for winter and all the crops they had planned to sell or feed to their livestock. Though people flailed at the insects, the swarms were so extensive, so pervasive that they had little hope of salvaging their lives without Divine help. The parishioners of St. Augusta and Luxemburg made
2583-476: The law caught up with them, the bottles containing the splendid brew were taken to the dump and smashed. For a while there was a moonshine still on the West side of the dam, near the Henry Kaeter farm. One night, during a dance at Schill's Hall, a huge explosion could be heard and a big fire could be seen near the dam. The Feds had discovered the moonshine still and blew it up." Also according to Sr. Janice, "The year
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2646-593: The local American Legion and Auxiliary holds annual ceremonies in all three cemeteries within the city, during which the names of all deceased local veterans are read aloud. Just as similarly to other communities in rural Stearns County during the Prohibition era , St. Augusta was a center for the secret distilling of a very high quality form of moonshine called Minnesota 13 . According to local historian Sr. Janice Wedl, O.S.B., "People did get thirsty and made their own beer and hard liquor to drink and to sell. When
2709-574: The main routes in Saint Augusta. Interstate 94 / U.S. Highway 52 and County Route 75 skirt the northeastern border of St. Augusta. The city of Saint Cloud is to the immediate north and northeast of Saint Augusta. As of the census of 2010, there were 3,317 people, 1,154 households, and 937 families living in the city. The population density was 111.8 inhabitants per square mile (43.2/km ). There were 1,184 housing units at an average density of 39.9 per square mile (15.4/km ). The racial makeup of
2772-532: The many other Stearns County German communities surrounding it, St. Augusta has produced plenty of voluntary recruits to the United States military during every one of America's wars from the American Civil War to the present, and even to the two World Wars that were fought against the St. Augustaners and Luxemburgers' ancestral homeland ( German : die alte Heimat ). On every Memorial Day ,
2835-488: The other in the water. This could end up in a fist fight between the young men... At the end of the day, a bell would ring and everyone would like up for the procession back to their parish churches - to be good boys again. The writer is reminded of what Joseph Knoll of Pierz told him years ago, ( German : 'Sogar beim Begräbnis müß man Spaß haben, sonst geht niemand mit' ) ('Even at a funeral, there must be some pleasure; otherwise nobody will attend'). The parishioners went to
2898-464: The picnic, there would be good natured bickering. The Luxemburgers would call the St. Augustaners ( German : Speckfresser ), because they were more prosperous and had meat to eat. The St. Augustaners called the Luxemburgers ( German : Knochenknarrer ), because they had to nibble on bones. At times they would challenge each other to cross a plank over the creek, and each side would try to throw
2961-604: The playing and singing of German folk music . According to local historian Fr. Colman J. Barry, this represented a continuation of the tradition of parish feast day picnics and old country festivals that, very similarly to the Pennsylvania Dutch Fersommling , remained a central pillar of Stearns County German culture. According to Fr. Barry, "These celebrations were always informal, and were not limited only to fairs but were held also on Christmas , New Years Day , Fastnacht or Shrove Tuesday , and at
3024-531: The population of the town was 1,109 (excluding East Augusta). The town is within the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River local government area , and is in the Leeuwin Ward. It is connected by public transport to Perth via Transwa coach service SW1. The town has its own airport. Augusta was a summer holiday town for many during most of the twentieth century, but late in the 1990s many people chose to retire to
3087-406: The population. There were 987 households, out of which 47.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 76.5% were married couples living together, 5.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 15.0% were non-families. 11.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.11 and
3150-526: The priest at St. Augusta, who advised doing whatever else he preferred to do with the ruins. Libbesmeier accordingly moved the ruins into his yard, where they remained for 29 years. Over time, both the chapel crucifix and the statue of the Blessed Virgin fell and broke, and were buried in a local pasture. After taking the helm of St. Mary Help of Christians Church in 1958, Fr. Severin Schwieters
3213-770: The region for its cooler weather. As a consequence of this and rising land values in the Augusta-Margaret River area, the region has experienced significant social change. Noongar peoples, the Aboriginal Australian peoples of south-western Australia, inhabited the area for an estimated 45,000 years before the arrival of European settlers, with one site near Margaret River showing signs of human habitation around 47,000 years ago. Augusta lies within Wardandi land. Wardandi (often spelt Wadandi) traditional owners guided archaeological researchers to
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#17327654041293276-788: The shrine continued for many years afterwards on June 5, the Feast Day of St. Boniface , an English Benedictine missionary, Bishop, and martyr instrumental to the Christianisation of the Germanic peoples ; and who is still revered as the "Apostle to the Germans ", Patron Saint of the Germanosphere and the German diaspora . According to Fr. Robert J. Voigt, "The women decorated the chapel with flowers and choirs took their turn in singing and brought an organ along... Close to
3339-680: The subversive domestic activities of the German-American Bund , the Silver Legion , and other Fascistic organizations receiving covert funding from the new police state in Nazi Germany . For this reason, when Martin Libbesmeier approached the priest at St. Wendelin's Church seeking instructions on what to do with the ruins of St. Boniface Chapel, the priest urged him to set a match to them. Libbesmeier, however, wasn't at all happy with this answer and instead approached
3402-596: The sun and reduce farm families throughout North America to the brink of starvation was formally declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature . According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 29.81 square miles (77.21 km ); 29.66 square miles (76.82 km ) is land and 0.15 square miles (0.39 km ) is water. Minnesota State Highway 15 and County Route 7 are two of
3465-436: The tempo slowed down there was ever someone on hand to take up the old lustige Lieder ." Popular songs at such gatherings included Muss i denn , Heidenröslein , Du, du liegst mir im Herzen , and O du lieber Augustin . It was particularly common at such gatherings for local Union Army veterans of the American Civil War to stand up and sing, with tears and intense emotion, a traditional soldiers' lament dating from
3528-499: The title Augusta . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Augusta&oldid=1257586346 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Genus disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
3591-469: The township was $ 57,292, and the median income for a family was $ 60,000. Males had a median income of $ 36,148 versus $ 24,554 for females. The per capita income for the township was $ 21,712. About 2.1% of families and 2.3% of the population were below the poverty line , including none of those under age 18 and 22.6% of those age 65 or over. Most of St. Augusta is in the St. Cloud Area School District . A portion
3654-610: Was built in 1877, similarly to the far more famous " Assumption Chapel " near Cold Spring , as a desperate petition for divine intervention from the Rocky Mountain locusts ; a now extinct species of giant grasshopper , whose enormous migrating swarms blotted out the sunlight and, as described in the novel On the Banks of Plum Creek , Laura Ingalls Wilder , devastated farming communities throughout North America between 1856 and 1902. Sr. Janice Wedl, O.S.B. has written about
3717-478: Was disembarked, and the town of Augusta declared at the site. Stirling named the town in honour of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex , the sixth son of George III , due to its location within Sussex County , one of the 26 counties of Western Australia that were designated in 1829 as cadastral divisions . During the 1880s, an expansion of the timber industry occurred following the construction of
3780-411: Was influential in convincing his parishioners that the chapel was a highly important local heritage monument and needed to be restored. At his urging, the parishioners moved the ruins to a wooded hill near the original site and reconstructed, as much as possible, using the original wood and other materials. St. Augustine's Church in east St. Cloud donated a new altar and all other items necessary for saying
3843-465: Was later brought under control and no homes were destroyed. In January 2018 the town was threatened by a bushfire. The CinefestOZ film festival stages some of its screenings and events in Augusta in late August each year. St. Augusta, Minnesota Saint Augusta or St. Augusta , formerly named Ventura , is a city in Stearns County , Minnesota , United States, directly south of
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#17327654041293906-578: Was named in the 1850s after a local church. The city contains one property listed on the National Register of Historic Places : the 1873 St. Mary Help of Christians Church and its 1890 rectory. For a short time Saint Augusta was officially named Ventura in honor of then Governor Jesse Ventura , but voters decided on its current name months after incorporation, and the name was officially changed to Saint Augusta on November 7, 2000. The Christian pilgrimage shrine ( German : Wahlfahrtsort ) ( German : Gnadenkapelle ) known as St. Boniface Chapel
3969-412: Was saved from these because a serious fire a few months earlier had created a low fuel zone north of the town. The Augusta residents cared for the school children who had been evacuated from Karridale and Kudardup. A bushfire threatened the town in 2011 and over 200 residents were evacuated. The fire had already claimed 40,000 hectares (100,000 acres) before reaching the outskirts of East Augusta, but
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