Mount Vernon Arsenal
Arsenal, Mount Vernon, Alabama.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Arsenal
- Where
- Mount Vernon, Alabama
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Ruins
MOUNT VERNON ARSENAL
Alabama militia took the federal ammunition plant on January 4, 1861, and turned it over to the Confederate Army. In 1862 ammunition making moved from here to Selma. The Confederates held the arsenal almost until the end of the war.
Then
Alabama militia took the federal ammunition plant on January 4, 1861, and turned it over to the Confederate Army. In 1862 ammunition making moved from here to Selma.
The Confederates held the arsenal almost until the end of the war.
Now
Ruins
The complex later became Searcy Hospital, which closed in 2012. A fire on April 10, 2026, collapsed the roof of the tower arsenal building.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by Norfolk Southern, about 0.7 miles away.
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