Apalachicola Arsenal
Arsenal, Chattahoochee, Florida.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Arsenal
- Where
- Chattahoochee, Florida
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Built over
APALACHICOLA ARSENAL
Federal arms depot, a walled quadrangle of nine buildings completed in 1839. A militia unit from Quincy seized it on January 6, 1861, four days before Florida seceded, and Confederate troops held it from then on. After the war it served the Freedmen's Bureau, then became the state's first penitentiary.
Then
The federal arms depot, a walled quadrangle of nine buildings completed in 1839, was seized on January 6, 1861, by a militia unit from Quincy, four days before Florida seceded. Confederate troops held it from then on.
After the war it served the Freedmen's Bureau until 1868, then became the state's first penitentiary.
Now
Built over
The arsenal is the campus of Florida State Hospital. The officers' quarters are its administration building, and the powder magazine, the only surviving outbuilding, was restored in 2013.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by a smaller railroad, about 1.1 miles away.
Nearby
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