Confederate Navy Yard, Saffold

At Saffold, “accessible by steamboats from all points on the river”, David S. Johnston operated the Southern Confederate States Navy Yard. Here the gunboat Chattahoochee was built under contract signed October 19, 1861. Lt. Catesby ap R. Jones, CSN, formerly ...

Rocketts Landing and Wharf / Confederate Navy Yard / Powhatan’s

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Rocketts Landing and Wharf

Rocketts is the river frontage and community named for Robert Rockett, who operated a ferry across the James River beginning in the 1730s. Over the years, tenant laborers and merchants filled the floodplain with clusters of ...

Confederate Navy Yard

The Confederacy established a navy yard 1/4 mile NW about 1863 on the banks of the Great Pee Dee River.

Here, under the command of Lt. Van Renssalaer Morgan, a wooden gunboat, the C.S.S. Pee Dee, was built.

Launched by November 1864, ...

The Navy Yard of the Confederate States

On the river shore just below here the Navy Yard of the Confederate States was located and the ships Fredericksburg and Virginia II were launched

This site is dedicated to that spot by the City of Richmond, 1916

Marker is at the ...

Confederate Navy Yard

Begun in 1862, the Confederate Navy Yard occupied both banks of the James River, including the community and port of Rocketts Landing on the north bank. The Yard was the base, construction site, and headquarters for the James River Squadron, ...