Columbus Iron Works
Foundry, Columbus, Georgia.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Foundry
- Where
- Columbus, Georgia
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Built over
COLUMBUS IRON WORKS
The works made cannon and machinery for the nearby Confederate Navy shipyard, along with pistols, rifles and swords. Wilson's cavalry took Columbus on April 16, 1865, and burned many of its industrial buildings.
Then
The works made cannon and machinery for the nearby Confederate Navy shipyard, along with pistols, rifles and swords.
Wilson's cavalry took Columbus on April 16, 1865, and burned many of its industrial buildings.
Now
Built over
The building is the Columbus Georgia Convention and Trade Center, an event venue that displays artifacts from the factory.
Track in service today runs beside the site, on a line owned by Norfolk Southern.
Nearby
- 0 miWilson burns the Columbus navy yard and ironcladApril 16, 1865, Columbus, Georgia
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- 26 miRousseau wrecks the Montgomery and West Point at OpelikaJuly 19, 1864, Opelika, Alabama
- 53 miTallassee ArmoryConfederate · Armory, Tallassee, Alabama
- 79 miKilpatrick raids the Macon and Western at Jonesborough and LovejoyAugust 20, 1864, Lovejoy's Station, Georgia