Upon returning home to direct the Okefenokee Heritage Center in Waycross, Holly raised the funds to complete the exterior restoration of five historic structures on the property. Wait left the Bureau of Historic Preservation, where she helped run this nation’s largest (at the time) Historic Preservation Grants Program to become director of the Heritage Museum of Northwest Florida. She later returned to Tallahassee, working for many years at the Museum of Florida History as museum educator, then as grants manager for the statewide Historical Museums Grants-in-Aid Program. After graduating from Florida State University with a master’s degree in American History to 1865 and Public History, she began her career as museum registrar at the Jekyll Island Museum. Holly Beasley Wait, a native of Waycross, Georgia, has spent over 34 years working in museums and historic preservation. Additionally, there are living history events, tours, cannon firings, weapons demonstrations, local history projects and more. We host a range of events throughout the year with an emphasis on museum theatre and historic character interpretation. Our timeline exhibit takes you month by month through the war showing naval events and features many of the museum’s most rare artifacts, such as the uniform coat of Captain Catesby Jones and Admiral Farragut’s two-star hat insignia. The collection includes various flags from ships and coastal forts, signal flags and Admirals’ pennants. Other exhibits include a replica of the USS Hartford with its berth deck, ward room and captain’s cabin, an actual cutter or "ship's boat" from the USS Hartford, a full scale replica of the USS Monitor’s famous turret, and an immersive panoramic dockside exhibit recreating Plymouth, North Carolina, complete with an exterior and interior view of the CSS Albemarle.Īmong our many artifacts, we have the largest collection of Civil War Naval-related flags on display in the country. We house the largest surviving Confederate warship, the CSS Jackson, as well as the wreckage of the CSS Chattahoochee. Located in Columbus, Georgia, the National Civil War Naval Museum overlooks the Chattahoochee River.
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