Columbus, Georgia, USA
1895 - Columbus

Columbus, a thriving city, capital of Muscogee co., Ga., is on the E. bank of the Chattahoochee River, 100 miles direct (or 136 miles by the road) S.S.W. of Atlanta, and 100 miles by railroad W.S.W. of Macon. It is connected with Macon by the Southwestern Railroad, and is the southern terminus of the North & South Railroad. The Western (Alabama) and Mobile & Girard Railroads terminate at Girard, on the opposite side of the river, which is here crossed by a bridge. Columbus is at the head of navigation, and has a large trade in cotton, about 60,000 bales of which are annually received here. The river at this place affords extensive water-power, which is utilized in the manufacture of cotton and woollen goods, flour, &c. The Eagle & Phoenix Manufacturing Company of this place have the largest cotton- and woollen-mills in the South, employ about 900 operatives, and manufacture a variety of colored goods, ginghams, cottonades, &c. The Columbus Iron-Works manufacture engines, boilers, steamboats, saw mills, sugar-mills, cotton-screws, &c. Columbus contains 10 churches, 3 of which are colored, 4 national banks and 1 state bank, gas-works, 5 cotton-mills, a woollen-mill, a manufactory of engines and boilers, and several iron-foundries and machine-shops. Two daily and 3 weekly newspapers are published here. This city has also a high school, a female college, a male academy, 4 hotels and a court-house. Steamboats ply regularly between Columbus and Apalachicola. Many of the residences in this city and its environs are large and beautiful and are enclosed by grounds adorned with flowers and shrubbery. Pop. in 1890, 17,303.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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