04/20/2017
The Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History contains a collection of artifacts and relics from the American Civil War, as well as from railroads of the state of Georgia and surrounding regions. The highlight of the said museum is the General, a steam locomotive used in the Great Locomotive Chase in April 1862. It is located in Kennesaw, Georgia and the archive house has a significant collection of company records, engineering drawings, blueprints, glass plate negatives, photographs and correspondence from various American businesses representing the railroad industry in the South after the Civil War including a growing collection of Civil War letters, diaries, and official records.
The museum was previously known as the Big Shanty Museum, in a barn that once housed a cotton gin, which initially opened on April 12, 1972, on the very date which the chase occurred one hundred and ten years prior, with the General as the centerpiece. Later, the theme expanded to include Civil War pieces as well.
