SC-40-124 Confederate Printing Plant A

Marker text: CONFEDERATE PRINTING PLANT

After 1864 Evans and Cogswell printed almost all bonds and currency for the Confederate Treasury. Many young women were employed here to sign and cut sheets as they came off the press. When Federal troops burned part of the building in February 1865 they carried off the printing plates and Òan immense quantityÓ of currency. The building served as a warehouse for the state liquor dispensary system from 1895 to 1907.

Erected by the Mary Boykin Chesnut Chapter No. 2517, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 2002, replacing a marker erected by the City of Columbia in 1966.