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The Confederacy established a navy yard about 1863 on the banks of the Great Pee Dee River one-quarter mile northwest. Here, under the command of Lt. Van Renssalaer Morgan, a wooden gunboat, the C.S.S. Pee Dee, was built. Launched by November 1864, it was burned to prevent its capture by Federal forces in March 1865.
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