Lowered reservoir offers glimpse of lost city

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Ken Boyd has a peren­nial fas­ci­na­tion with the bar­ren, windswept penin­sula that juts into a remote arm of Thur­mond Lake.“There’s not much here today,” the Army Corps of Engi­neers biol­o­gist said.

“But 200 years ago, it must have been quite a place.”The wide, level ground at the con­flu­ence of the Broad and Savan­nah rivers holds the ghostly ruins of Peters­burg, once hailed as Georgia’s second-largest city and an eco­nomic rival to Augusta 70 miles downstream.

via  jacksonville.com.