Columbus Iron Works

Columbus Iron Works is a Georgia historical marker in Muscogee County, dedicated 1954.

At 801 Front Ave in Columbus.

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Established 1853, was operated by the Confederate government as Naval Iron Works, making cannon, other war munitions, and two gun boats. This plant was credited with making the first breech-loading cannon. At south end of Dillingham Street bridge, two blocks west of this marker was built the world's first ice factory operated by Columbus Ice Mfg. Co. Ice machines made at the Columbus Iron Works were used in this plant.

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1845 · Georgia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1850 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1851 · Tennessee, Alabama en Florida. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1856 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1856 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Georgia, 1856, covering the location of Columbus Iron Works, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Georgia, 1856, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Columbus Iron Works

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