This boulder

marks the site of the

Selma Navy Yard

and the Ordnance Works

destroyed by the Federals

1865This tablet is placed in honor of the memory

of hundreds of faithful men who made these

great works a base for war material for the

entire Confederate Army and Navy.

Captain Catesby ap Roger Jones, Commandant

Capt. David De Haven

Lieut. C. C. Sims

Lieut. N. H. VanZant

Chas. F. Fahs M.D.

James Thomas M.D.

W. M. Ladd

Simeon B Reardon

George Peacock

Simon Gay

A. E. Reimer

Here were cast some of the largest cannon ever

made in America. And here were built under the

command of Commodore E. Farrand the Battleship

Tennessee and several gunboats which took park

in the Battle of Mobile Bay, 1864.

Marker is at the intersection of Water Avenue and Sylvan Street, on the right when traveling east on Water Avenue.

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