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Port Columbus featured in new GPB production31Jan2011Last weekend, the newest edition of GPB’s “Georgia Traveler” premiered with a feature on Port Columbus. Reporter Rickey Bevington toured the museum, then taped a reenactment sequence on the Water Witch and participated in a cannon shooting. Watch your schedules for “Georgia Traveler” in the future. Watch this episode online at http://www.gpb.org/georgiatraveler/406. Tags: cannon, Georgia Traveler, GPB, ship, tour
USS Water Witch receives Georgia award23Jan2011Port Columbus received an award for the best exhibit over $100,000 at the annual meeting of the Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries on Friday, January 23. Attending for the museum were executive director Bruce Smith, director of Education and Programs Ken Johnston and Director of Communications Jon Ezzell. Tags: award, Civil War, GAMG, navy, Water Witch
Port Columbus goes to Sumter for early 150th event18Jan2011A boat and crew from Port Columbus participated in a special living history event in Charleston, SC, on January 8. The event “To prevent the effusion of blood”, was hosted by a living history unit and the National Park Service. Our crew acted as hired boatmen to haul US soldiers from Ft. Moultrie to Ft. [...] Tags: boat, Civil War, Ft. Moultrie, Ft. Sumter
Port Columbus Closed Monday by ice10Jan2011Good Morning All, Port Columbus is closed today along with all other city offices, due to the ice storm last night. We’ll be open at 9 on Tuesday morning.
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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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