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02Apr2012
Each spring, sailors and marines both Union and Confederate gather at Port Columbus for RiverBlast! This living history weekend is Port Columbus’ largest living history event, and draws reenactors from around the country. Featuring weapons demonstrations, cannon firings, skirmishes, event reenactments and scenes from a sailor’s daily life, this event has something for everyone. This [...]
Tags: Civil War, columbus, Columbus Georgia, Georgia, history, Living History, marine, Marines, Museum, Naval History, navy, Port Columbus, reenactment, riverblast, Water Witch 
12Mar2011
Saturday was a beautiful day at Port Columbus, RiverBlast kicked off with a great crowd. If you missed out, come on down tomorrow for more! 10 am – 4 pm.
Tags: Civil War, Living History, marine, navy, riverblast
11Mar2011
Director of Naval History Jay DeLoach, Mayor Teresa Tomlinson, Dept of Tourism representative Bruce Green and Confederate Navy descendant Catesby ap C Jones all participated in a terrific ceremony this morning at the museum, helping kick off a second successful decade of museum operations. The highlight of the show was the presentation of Catesby apR. [...]
Tags: Catesby Jones, Civil War, Mayor Columbus, Naval History, riverblast, sword
07Mar2011
Rear Adm. Jay DeLoach, USN (Ret.), Director of Naval History at the Washington Navy Yard, will participate in the 10th anniversary ceremony at Port Columbus Friday, March 11 at 11 a.m. Ten years ago, one of Adm. DeLoach’s predecessors, Dr. William Dudley, was present at the grand opening of Port Columbus. The US Navy’s rep [...]
Tags: columbus, history, Mayor, navy, riverblast
18Feb2011
Construction continues on the dock and surrounding work at the USS Water Witch this week. Today saw the pouring of the concrete surround, which will eventually receive a similar “water” treatment as seen in the CSS Jackson gallery. Work has been ongoing on the dock structure in front of the ship as well, which will [...]
Tags: boat, cannon, Civil War, columbus, Columbus Georgia, Georgia, history, Living History, Museum, navy, Port Columbus, riverblast, ship, Water Witch
20Apr2010
A 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
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