Cook and Brother Armory
Armory, Athens, Georgia.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Armory
- Where
- Athens, Georgia
- Years
- 1862-1864
- Today
- Built over
COOK AND BROTHER ARMORY
The Cook brothers moved their New Orleans armory here in 1862 and made Enfield-pattern rifles, bayonets and cavalry horseshoes under a contract for 30,000 rifles. It was said to be the largest private armory in the Confederacy.
Then
The Cook brothers moved their New Orleans armory here in 1862 and made Enfield-pattern rifles, bayonets and cavalry horseshoes under a contract for 30,000 rifles. It was said to be the largest private armory in the Confederacy.
Its workers, organized as a reserve battalion, were called to active duty in 1864 as Sherman approached.
Now
Built over
The armory building is the Chicopee Building, part of the University of Georgia.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by a smaller railroad, about 0.3 miles away.
Nearby
- 47 miUnion cavalry cuts the Georgia Railroad near Stone MountainJuly 18, 1864, Stone Mountain, Georgia
- 53 miDahlonega MintConfederate · Site, Dahlonega, Georgia
- 57 miRoswell MillConfederate · Mill, Roswell, Georgia
- 60 miAtlanta arsenal, rolling mill and depotsConfederate · Depot, Atlanta, Georgia
- 60 miHood blows up his ammunition train and abandons AtlantaSeptember 1, 1864, Atlanta, Georgia
- 60 miSherman leaves Atlanta on the March to the SeaNovember 15, 1864, Atlanta, Georgia