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, it was burned to prevent its capture by Federal forces in March 1865.
Marker is on E Palmetto Street (U.S. 76), in the median.
Courtesy hmdb.org
