Selma Navy Yard Monument

When you visit the Old Depot Museum, be sure and check out

 the monuments on the property.

This one marks the site of the Selma Navy Yard and Ordnance Works,

 which were destroyed in the  Battle of Selma, April 1865. The inscription

 further reads that some of the largest cannon used during

 the War Between the States were cast here, and the Battleship Tennessee 

and other gunboats that took part in the 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay

 were built here. 

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Arsenal Place

Arsenal Place, which leads into the Riverview neighborhood, has a distinguished entrance with posts on each side of the street.

The plaques on each post recognize Selma's contribution to the manufacture of munitions for the Confederacy and were placed in 1931 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Several thousand people worked in the facilities which were destroyed in the April 1865 Battle of Selma. Click on the photo to see a larger version.