Columbus, Georgia Columbus, Georgia Downtown Columbus horizon on the banks of the Chattahoochee River Downtown Columbus horizon on the banks of the Chattahoochee River Official seal of Columbus, Georgia Seal Official logo of Columbus, Georgia Location in Muscogee County and the state of Georgia Location in Muscogee County and the state of Georgia Columbus, Georgia is positioned in the US Columbus, Georgia - Columbus, Georgia Website City of Columbus Columbus is a town/city in the U.S.
Enumeration Bureau, Columbus has a populace of 202,824 residents, with 316,554 in the greater Columbus-Phenix City urbane area.
The metro region joins the close-by Alabama metros/cities of Auburn and Opelika to form the Columbus-Auburn-Opelika Combined Statistical Area, which has an estimated populace of 501,649.
Columbus is directly to the east athwart the Chattahoochee River from Phenix City, Alabama.
Situated at the heart of the Chattahoochee Valley, Columbus is Georgia's second-largest town/city and fourth-largest urbane area.
Fort Benning, home of the United States Army Infantry School and a primary employer, is positioned south of the town/city in Chattahoochee County.
Columbus is home to exhibitions and tourism sites, including the National Infantry Museum, dedicated to the United States Army's Infantry Branch.
Timeline of Columbus, Georgia Founded in 1828 by an act of the Georgia Legislature, Columbus was situated at the beginning of the navigable portion of the Chattahoochee River and on the last stretch of the Federal Road before entering Alabama.
The town/city was titled for Christopher Columbus, its framers likely influenced by the writings of Washington Irving.
The river served as Columbus's connection to the world, especially enabling it to ship its commodity cotton crops from the plantations to the global cotton market via New Orleans and ultimately Liverpool, England.
Battle of Columbus (1865) Redd House, Columbus, Historic American Buildings Survey When the Civil War broke out in 1861, the industries of Columbus period their production; this became one of the most meaningful centers of trade in the Confederacy.
During the war, Columbus ranked second to Richmond in the manufacture of supplies for the Confederate army. In addition to textiles, the town/city had an ironworks, a sword factory, and a shipyard for the Confederate Navy.
Unaware of Lee's surrender to Grant and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Union and Confederates clashed in the Battle of Columbus, Georgia, on Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865, when a Union detachment under General James H.
A historic marker has been erected in Columbus.
Downtown Columbus in the early 1950s In the spring of 1866 the Ladies Memorial Association of Columbus passed a resolution to set aside one day annually to memorialize the Confederate dead.
With the expansion of the city, leaders who promoted establishing a university, established Columbus College, a two-year institution which later was advanced as Columbus State University, now a elected center of higher learning.
The town/city government became merged with the county in 1971, the first of its kind in Georgia (and one of only 16 in the U.S.
During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the subsidized assembly of highways and suburbs resulted in drawing off the middle and upper classes, with urban blight, white flight, and prostitution in much of downtown Columbus and adjoining neighborhoods.
It was designated as the State Theatre of Georgia, helping spark a historic preservation boss in the city.
A undivided Columbus Consolidated Government Center was constructed in the town/city center.
Municipal projects have encompassed assembly of a softball complex, which hosted the 1996 Olympic softball competition; assembly of the Chattahoochee River - Walk; assembly of the National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus, assembly of the Coca-Cola Space Science Center, the expansion of the Columbus Museum, and road improvements to include a new downtown bridge crossing the Chattahoochee River to Phenix City.
Mc - Clung Memorial Stadium, Golden Park, the Columbus Civic Center, and the recently added Jonathan Hatcher Skateboard Park.
The National Infantry Museum has been constructed in South Columbus, positioned outside the Fort Benning chief gate.
Columbus has a center for the fine and performing arts.
River - Center for the Performing Arts, which opened in 2002, homes Columbus State University's music department.
In 2002 Columbus State's art and drama departments moved to downtown locations.
The "Ready to Raft 2012" campaign is a universal that created an estimated 700 new jobs and is projected to bring in $42 million annually to the Columbus area.
The universal resulted in the longest urban whitewater rafting venue in the world. This, in addition to other outside and non-outdoor tourist attractions, led to around 1.8 million visitors coming to Columbus amid the fiscal year 2015, as stated to the Columbus Convention and Visitors Bureau. In upcoming years, the town/city predicts that an additional 30,000 soldiers will be trained annually at Fort Benning due to base realignment and closure of other facilities. As a result of this, Columbus is expected to see a primary population increase.
Columbus is one of Georgia's three Fall Line Cities, along with Augusta and Macon.
As such, Columbus has a varied landscape of rolling hills on the north side and flat plains on the south.
Columbus was advanced along the Chattahoochee River.
Route 280, and Georgia State Route 520 (known as South Georgia Parkway) all meet in the interior of the city.
Route 27 and Georgia State Route 85 run northeast from the city, locally known as Bill Heard Expressway.
Columbus is often considered a dividing line or "natural snowline" of the southeastern United States with areas north of the town/city receiving snow flurry annually, with areas to the south typically not receiving snow flurry every year or at all.
Columbus is inside USDA hardiness zone 8b in the town/city center and zone 8a in the suburbs.
Climate data for Columbus, Georgia Neighborhoods in Columbus, Georgia Columbus is divided into five geographic areas: Downtown, also sometimes called "Uptown" (though "Uptown" is actually the title given to both a non-profit organization operating to encourage region growth and evolution or "urban renewal" in the town/city and also to the actual physical region of that evolution itself, which is an expanding subsection of the Downtown precinct positioned in the areas from Broadway to the Chattahoochee River) is the city's central company district, and home to multiple historic districts, homes, and churches, such as the Columbus Historic Riverfront Industrial District, the Mott House, and the Church of the Holy Family.
East Columbus is a dominantly residentiary region located directly east of the central company district.
North Columbus, also called "Northside," is a diverse suburban area, home to established neighborhoods and subdivisions, such as Green Island Hills and Oldtown.
South Columbus is situated just below the Mid - Town region, and directly north of Fort Benning.
The Columbus Metropolitan Area includes four counties in Georgia, and one in Alabama.
Map of ethnic distribution in Columbus, 2010 U.S.
Census, Columbus had a total populace of 189,885, up from 186,291 in the 2000 Census.
Columbus contains approximately 200 Christian churches, with the Southern Baptist Convention being the biggest denomination by number of churches. Columbus is also home to three Kingdom Halls for Jehovah's Witnesses, and one Greek Orthodox Church.
Companies headquartered in Columbus include Aflac, Carmike Cinemas, TSYS, Realtree, Synovus, and the W.
According to Columbus's 2009 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: Founded in 1953, the Columbus Museum (accredited by the American Alliance of Museums) contains artifacts of county-wide history as well as works of American art.
Columbus is home to the National Civil War Naval Museum, a 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m2) facility that opened in 1962.
Major strip malls include Columbus Park Crossing, which opened in 2003, and The Landings, which opened in 2005.
Columbus is also served by The Shoppes at Bradley Park, a lifestyle center.
Golden Park, Columbus' earliest baseball park Below is the list of primary venues in the town/city of Columbus: Columbus Civic Center, a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena that opened in 1996 and is home to the Columbus Lions (NAL).
Golden Park, a 5,000 seat baseball stadium, is the former home to the Columbus Catfish.
It was also the site of the softball affairs of the 1996 Summer Olympics that were held in the town/city of Columbus.
River - Center for the Performing Arts, a 2,000-seat undivided performance theatre that first opened in 2002 and is directed by the Columbus not-for-profit organization River - Center Inc.
Former United States President Jimmy Carter proclaimed it the State Theatre of Georgia for the 1971-72 season.
Columbus Historic Riverfront Industrial District National Register of Historic Places listings in Muscogee County, Georgia Columbus is home to 8 historic districts, all listed in the NRHP.
Columbus Historic District Columbus Historic Riverfront Industrial District Columbus Lions Indoor football National Arena League Columbus Civic Center List of parks in Columbus, Georgia Columbus is home to upwards of fifty parks, four recreation centers, four senior centers and parks, and Standing Boy Creek State Park.
The Chattahoochee River - Walk is a 15-mile (24 km) walking/bike trail that joins users from Downtown to South Columbus and the northern section of Fort Benning.
The Columbus Fall Line Trace is a public trail that runs from Downtown to the northeastern section of the city. Columbus Consolidated Government Center Columbus is served by four chapters of the Chattahoochee Valley Libraries: South Columbus Public Library Columbus State University Georgia Military College - chief campus in Milledgeville, Georgia Media in Columbus, Georgia The Columbus Metropolitan Airport (IATA: CSG, ICAO: KCSG, FAA LID: CSG) is the metro area's major airport and the fourth busiest airport in Georgia.
METRA Transit System is the major provider of mass transit in Muscogee County, presently operating twelve routes in Columbus.
The current enhance transit services are directed as a function of the Columbus Consolidated Government under METRA. Greyhound Lines provides intercity bus service with the Columbus station positioned on Veterans Parkway, Downtown Columbus. List of citizens from Columbus, Georgia Downtown Columbus List of neighborhoods in Columbus, Georgia List of mayors of Columbus, Georgia Black Heritage Trail (Columbus, Georgia) a National Recreation Trail going though the town/city Our Town: An Introduction to the History of Columbus, Georgia by Roger Harris, 1992, Historic Columbus Foundation Columbus, Georgia (Black America Series) by Judith Grant, 1999, Arcadia Publishing Columbus, Georgia in Vintage Postcards (GA) (Postcard History Series) by Kenneth H.
Enriching Lives: A History of Columbus State University, by Reagan L.
Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia: Survival in a Civil War Regiment by Scott Walker, 2007, University of Georgia Press Lower Chattahoochee River (GA) (Images of America) by The Columbus Museum, 2007, Arcadia Publishing Columbus, Georgia, 1865: The Last True Battle of the Civil War, by Charles A.
Average weather for Columbus Weather Channel Retrieved 2012-08-21 "Columbus (city), Georgia".
"Georgia Race and Hispanic Origin for Selected Cities and Other Places: Earliest Enumeration to 1990".
Churches in Columbus Retrieved August 29, 2009 City of Columbus CAFR Georgia Secretary of State - State Theatre, sos.state.ga.us; retrieved February 2007 (from Springer Opera House).
Columbus City Council Archived February 4, 2007, at the Wayback Machine..
Columbus Consolidated Government City Phone Directory.
List of schools in Columbus, Retrieved Sept.
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