Famed Civil War Submarine
Exhibit Comes to Nevada City
A full-scale reproduction of the Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley will be in Nevada City Sept. 12-16 as part of this year's Constitution Day Parade and Celebration.
The submarine is 40 feet long -- 60 feet long with its spar torpedo fitted to it -- and just three feet wide. It is mounted on a 45-foot trailer.
The confederate submarine was the first submarine in the world to sink a ship when it attacked the warship Housatonic on Feb. 17, 1864.
Following the attack, the Hunley itself disappeared, only to be located and raised from the depths of South Carolina's Charleston Harbor 136 years later, the subject of two National Geographic television specials.
The Hunley exhibit will be located at the basketball courts adjacent to the upper Little League field at Pioneer Park and open for public visitation on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 12-13, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
It will be open on Sunday morning, Sept. 14, from 9 a.m. to noon, and will then be featured in the 42nd Annual Nevada City Constitution Day Parade, which moves down Broad Street at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Local schools are being invited for special school group tours to the exhibit at Pioneer Park on Sept. 16-17-18. To arrange a tour, contact Liz Lowrie at 274-3907 or lizziessewing@sbcglobal.net.
The mobile exhibit is visiting Nevada City as part of its current California tour. Its appearance has been arranged by the American Civil War Association and is funded in part through a $1000 grant from the Nevada City Lions Club.
For a complete schedule of Constitution Day weekend activities in Nevada City, call the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce at (530) 265-2692 or visit the Constitution Day page.
