Where history hosts your story.
On the corner of Eighth and Reynolds, a brick-and-iron landmark has been quietly conducting Augusta's business for one hundred forty years. You're invited to host yours here.
From the rug-and-leather salon upstairs to the original trading floor, every space tells the story of the second-largest cotton market in the world — with the modern comforts your guests expect.
Host your wedding ceremony, rehearsal dinner, or corporate gathering in the upstairs salon — soaring arched windows, heart-pine floors, and the kind of light photographers travel for. Capacity up to 120 seated, 180 standing.
Inquire about a date →Class-A office suites in a building with original 1886 millwork, mesh-front teller counters, and a corner address worth printing on the letterhead. Walk to the Riverwalk, the Miller Theater, and Broad Street.
Schedule a tour →Every Saturday from March through November, the original trading floor — with its preserved 1886 chalkboards still hanging on the walls — becomes the indoor home of the Augusta Market. Local farmers, makers, and small businesses, the way they have for one hundred and forty years.
Apply as a vendor →"Reynolds Street, with its warehouses along the river, was known as Cotton Row. The bales were so numerous during peak market that a person could walk on top of them every block from Fifth Street to Thirteenth."
In the late nineteenth century, Augusta was the second-largest inland cotton market in the world — trailing only Memphis. Designed by Enoch William Brown and completed in 1886, the Cotton Exchange was modeled after the New York Cotton Exchange and built to signal Augusta's place on the global economic stage.
Cotton brokers worked here until 1964. The chalkboards where prices were recorded twice daily still hang on the trading-floor walls. The cast-iron columns from Charles F. Lombard's local foundry still hold up the second story. The building was added to the National Register in 1978.
The Cotton Exchange hosts roughly thirty-five private events each year. Send us the details and we’ll respond within one business day with availability, pricing, and a proposal tailored to what you have in mind.
Office tours, vendor questions, or press inquiries — same form works.