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These rusted engine parts were raised from the wreck of the blockade runner CSS Nashville, destroyed in the Ogeechee by the monitor USS Montauk in 1863. They hint at the power that once drove one of the Confederacy's famous commerce raiders.
Machinery From The C.S.S. Nashville is a historical marker in Richmond Hill, Bryan County, erected in 1964. It is one of 35 historical markers documented in Bryan County, among 74 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.8894, -81.2000 near Richmond Hill. The nearest cataloged historic site is Antonio J. Waring, Jr. M.D. (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Sinking of the CSS "Nashville (Rattlesnake)", Destruction of the C.S.S. Nashville, and Fort McAllister The Naval Bombardments.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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