Confederate Printing Plant (Evans and Cogswell)
Site, Columbia, South Carolina.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Site
- Where
- Columbia, South Carolina
- Years
- 1864-1865
- Today
- Marker only
CONFEDERATE PRINTING PLANT
From April 1864 Evans and Cogswell printed Confederate bonds and currency here, and the Treasury Note Bureau made the building its headquarters. Federal troops burned part of the building in February 1865 and carried off the printing plates.
Confederate Printing Plant
From April 1864 to February 1865 Confederate bonds and currency were printed and processed in this building, constructed in 1863-64 for the printing and stationery firm of Evans & Cogswell. That firm, founded in Charleston, produced bonds and currency for the Confederacy throughout the war and moved to Columbia in 1863. The Confederate Treasury Note Bureau moved its headquarters here as well in the spring of 1864.
Then
From April 1864 Evans and Cogswell printed Confederate bonds and currency here, and the Treasury Note Bureau moved its headquarters to the building. After 1864 the firm printed almost all Confederate bonds and notes.
Federal troops burned part of the building in February 1865 and carried off the printing plates.
Now
Marker only
The building later served as a state liquor dispensary warehouse from 1895 to 1907. A marker stands on Pulaski Street.
Track in service today runs beside the site, on a line owned by CSX.
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