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Founded in 1853, this works became one of the Confederacy's chief arsenals, second only to Richmond, casting cannon and building engines for gunboats under the Confederate Navy. Union raiders burned it in April 1865, but it rebuilt and ran for a century.
Columbus Iron Works is a historical marker in Columbus, Muscogee County, erected in 1954. It is one of 92 historical markers documented in Muscogee County, among 248 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 32.4620, -84.9949 near Columbus. The nearest cataloged historic site is Gallery 4 (museum), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Lummus Cotton Gins, Columbus Ironworks, and Loeb, Sol, Building--Garrett--Joy Building.
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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