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Port Columbus Receives National Award22Jun2010The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) has chosen Port Columbus as a recipient for a Leadership in History Award of Merit for the USS Water Witch Project. According to AASLH, the Leadership in History awards are given: “…to establish and encourage standards of excellence in the collection, preservation and interpretation of state [...] Tags: award, Civil War, columbus, Columbus Georgia, history, Museum, navy, Water Witch
Dahlgren Howitzer lands at Port Columbus17Jun2010An original Dahlgren rifled boat howitzer arrived at Port Columbus on Wednesday, June 16, thanks to a cooperative venture involving the US Army and Navy historical branches. Curators from both branches worked to make the transfer of this howitzer from the US Artillery Museum at Fort Sill, Oklahoma to the US Navy History and Heritage [...] Tags: 1863, 1864, cannon, Civil War, columbus, Columbus Georgia, Dahlgren, Howitzer, Museum, navy, Water Witch
MCSD Teachers Have a Blast at Port Columbus!02Jun2010Muscogee County School District teachers fired the museum’s original Civil War cannon during a Professional Learning Class today at Port Columbus. The teachers seemed to enjoy the experience immensely, and followed the gun captain’s orders quite well! Tags: cannon, Civil War, columbus, Columbus Georgia, Education, history, Museum, navy
Memorial Day at Port Columbus25May2010This Monday, Port Columbus will host a Memorial Day commemoration in honor of the Sailors and Marines who gave their lives during the Civil War, as well as all other veterans. At 1:00 p.m., we will hold a brief memorial followed by a cannon salute. This is a FREE event. Please come join us to [...] Tags: cannon, Civil War, columbus, Columbus Georgia, history, Memorial, navy
RiverBlast a hoot!!20Apr2010A fine array of Civil War era sailors and marines were on hand to run through a complete set of training exercises and demonstrations before a crowd of 500 over the weekend of April 17-18. A Confederate Navy commissioning of the ship highlighted Saturday’s activities and a landing party skirmish wrapped up events on Sunday [...] Tags: Civil War, confederate, ironclad, navy, pirates, reenactment, riverblast
Ghost Tours This Thursday22Mar2010The monthly Sea Ghosts: Tours of Haunted Port Columbus tour will take place this Thursday, March 25, at 8:00. These tours are based on evidence found by the Alabama Paranormal Research Team and Effigy Paranormal during multiple investigations carried out by each group, and include playing recordings made during the investigations in the spot they [...] Tags: Civil War, ghost tours, navy
Battle of Columbus book to premier at museum18Feb2010Join Charles Misulia at Port Columbus for the debut of the new book, “Columbus GA 1865: The Last True Battle of the Civil War” on Friday evening, March 12. This is a free event, open to the public. This incredibly deeply researched book tells the story of James H. Wilson’s cavalry campaign through Alabama and [...] Tags: Civil War, Columbus Georgia, history, navy
Welcome To Port Columbus’ brand new website!12Sep2007Now that the naval museum has a new website, we invite your comments on how it is working. The museum staff is very excited about this site and feels that it should serve the website visitor well. But, this is only the beginning. We are working on the store section of the site right now [...] Tags: Civil War, columbus, navy, new website
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About Port Columbus -- The Civil War Naval Museum:
Located in historic Columbus, Georgia on the Chattahoochee Intra-Coastal Waterway, Port Columbus is the only museum in the world dedicated to telling the complete Naval story of the American Civil War. From the ironclads to steam and sailing ships to the first successful submarines, Port Columbus has gone to great extent to raise, recover and preserve the military and technological advances of the American Civil War Navies. Welcome aboard, everyone is welcome. |
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