Organizations
Masons F. and A. M. Blue Lodge No. 504 was organized at Augusta October 21, 1875. The officers and charter members were G.P. Davis, J.B. Roach, J.A. Crook, T.B. Culp, Jonathon Woodward, H.A. Iden, Andrew Kennedy, and O.P. Deford. They met in the building on the NW corner of the Kensington and Andora Roads intersection. In 2001, they purchased the former Stillfork Grange building at the intersection of Arbor and Bellflower Roads.
Eastern Star The Eastern Star Chapter Order No. 412 of Augusta was organized March 15, 1919. The charter members were: Mabel Leyda, Elizabeth Dixon, Carrier Dager, Vesta Brice, Mary Manfull, J.F. Brice, Carrier Mills, Alvada Guthrie, A.M. Grimes, Ina Crawford, Laura Guthrie, Sandford Leyda, George Guthrie, D.V. Manfull, John Guthrie, Anna Hole, Ina Milhner, L. M. Hole, Leona Brice, Edith Hannum, Martha Edgar, Dr. W.A. Leiper, and Sam Leiper. Since 2001 they no longer meet at Augusta but go to Carrollton for meetings.
I.O.O.F. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows had an active order in Augusta in the early 1800's. The following officers were installed in 1884 for Lodge No. 499: Homer Stockman, N.G., A.L. Wyand, V.G, and Jno. McBane R.S., T. Cunningham W.D., L. Moncrief I.S.G., A.G. Ray R.S. - N.G., W. Myers R.S. - V.G. They and the Masons each erected new brick buildings in the early 1870's on the lot and just west of Nick's store at the present time. These buildings were both destroyed in the first large fire they had in Augusta February 12, 1888.
Maccabees The Maccabees had an active order in Augusta about the year 1900. They held their meetings in the building where the J.W. Brice Garage was located at the west edge of Augusta on the north side of State Route 9.
Woodmen The modern Woodmen of America had an active lodge or camp in Augusta about 1903. They held their meetings on the second floor of the building northwest of the intersection of Andora Road and State Route 9.
Granges
Augusta Grange No. 941 was organized June 5, 1874. Their Grange Hall was located in the Northwest Quarter of Section 26 near Meter Road. A picnic was held annually at Pottorf's Grove nearby for several years. This Grange was discontinued at the end of 1905 for unknown reasons.
Stillfork Grange No. 1370 was organized December 4, 1890 with 24 charter members. A plot of land near the railroad at Pattersonville was leased from John Patterson. It was stated in this lease no liquor was ever to be sold on this lot. They built a two room, two story building for use as a Grange Hall on this lot with volunteer labor, in which they held Grange meetings for sixty years. For most of that period, an annual festival was held the Saturday evening before the Fourth of July. It was well attended by young and old and eagerly anticipated by many in the days of horses and buggies. The old Grange Hall was not large enough to accommodate the large membership by the late 1940's so it was decided that a new Grange Hall be built. It was built on land donated by Frank Mills with the first meeting in the new building held September 12, 1951. The Grange closed in June, 1986. The building was sold to the Augusta Lodge No. 504 (Mason's) date.
Civilian Conservation Corps The CCC was an agency begun in 1933, to hire unemployed young men for public conservation work. A camp was set up on property located in the Southeast Quarter of Section 4 of this township. They planted trees in an effort headed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to "jump start" the economy during the Depression. Some of the pine trees and signs of the old cabins remain. The Great Lodge and the Cookhouse still remain on the property.
Works Progress Administration (WPA) In 1935, the WPA was founded to provide work for the needy on public works projects. It was one of the programs designed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to pull the United States out of the Great Depression of the 1930's. One of the projects that local men worked on was improving the roads of the township. Some carried stones from the fields nearby and pounded them into the dirt roads. One of these roads was Moccasin Rd.
Carroll County Temperance Society The Group was formed in 1838, promoting abstinence from the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. This culminated in the organization of a Lodge of Sons of Temperance, Good Templars or Local Temperance Societies. About 1857, the Good Templars came out against the liquor traffic. Women armed themselves with hatchets and destroyed liquor barrels in 1873-74 and the County was strongly in favor of prohibition. Several women of Augusta were involved with the W.C.T.U.(Women's Christian Temperance Union) into the 1950's.
Volunteer Fire Department A volunteer fire department was organized in Augusta Township in 1949 and a fire truck was purchased by donations and other means. The trustees furnished a place to keep it at 8065 Kensington Road, NE.
As time went by and many of the older people were gone from the area, interest in the Homecoming's was declining. The Volunteer Fire Department took over and with much community cooperation have had an annual strawberry festival on the second full weekend of June since 1949.
Clair Manfull was the first fire chief. Charter members include:
Ronald Dinger became the chief on April 1, 1985 and is still serving the department in that capacity in 2010. Other volunteer members at this time are Stephanie Sutton, Jim Bennett, Don Donzell, Tom Rhodes, Brandon Denoon, Greg Salla, Ron Dinger II, Todd Hawk, Kenny Keister and Lewis Massay.
A new building was started in 1999 at 3041 Aurora Road, NE and the fire department moved into it in 2000.