Tallassee Armory
Armory, Tallassee, Alabama.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Armory
- Where
- Tallassee, Alabama
- Years
- 1864-1865
- Today
- Marker only
TALLASSEE ARMORY
The Richmond carbine machinery moved in 1864 to an 1844 cotton mill on the Tallapoosa River. About 500 Tallassee carbines were made before the armory stopped in April 1865. The building was never destroyed in the war.
Then
The Richmond carbine machinery moved in 1864 to an 1844 cotton mill on the Tallapoosa River. About 500 Tallassee carbines were made before the armory stopped in April 1865.
The armory building was never destroyed in the war.
Now
Marker only
A marker stands in Confederate Armory Park in Tallassee.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by CSX, about 5 miles away.
Nearby
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- 53 miWilson burns the Columbus navy yard and ironcladApril 16, 1865, Columbus, Georgia
- 53 miColumbus Iron WorksConfederate · Foundry, Columbus, Georgia
- 56 miColumbus Naval Yard and Naval Iron WorksConfederate · Naval works, Columbus, Georgia
- 56 miEagle Manufacturing CompanyConfederate · Mill, Columbus, Georgia
- 57 miShelby Iron WorksConfederate · Ironworks, Shelby, Alabama