The Quest to Save Mockingbird Hill Village

The City of Augusta preserved a collection of miniature buildings as part of an expansion of the Highland Avenue Water Treatment Plant.
The Quest to Save Mockingbird Hill Village
The Highland Avenue Water Treatment Plant staff includes, from left, Allen Elliott, assistant plant manager; Debra Beazley, water production superintendent; Robert Mobley, plant superintendent; and Roberta Tyler, administrative assistant.

When upgrading the Highland Avenue Water Treatment Plant in 2009, the City of Augusta, Georgia, faced an obstacle.

A community of miniature buildings from the 1940s, called Mockingbird Hill Village, stood in the way of expansion. The “village” consisted of a Southern mansion,...

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