Confederate Medical Laboratory, Lincolnton
Laboratory, Lincolnton, North Carolina.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Laboratory
- Where
- Lincolnton, North Carolina
- Years
- 1863-1865
- Today
- Ruins
CONFEDERATE MEDICAL LABORATORY
Confederate medical laboratory, 1863-1865, one of at least five of its kind. Surgeon A. Snowden Piggott made drugs from native plants here, including opium from a poppy garden. Union forces captured Piggott and the laboratory on April 27, 1865.
CONFEDERATE LABORATORY
Under Dr. A.S. Piggott, manufactured medicine for Confederacy, 1863-65. Remains are 2 mi. S.
Then
Surgeon A. Snowden Piggott made drugs from native plants here, including opium from a poppy garden. It was one of at least five Confederate laboratories of its kind.
Union forces captured Piggott and the laboratory on April 27, 1865.
Now
Ruins
Most of the building was demolished in 1886 for the Laboratory Cotton Mill. The site holds ruins and a foundation, about 2 miles south of the marker.
Lines owned by CSX run through Lincolnton today.
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