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Vinton Birney Imes Sr. first went to work for Percy W. Maer at The Columbus Dispatch in 1910. Following Maer's death, Imes left The Columbus Dispatch and bought The Columbus Commercial. The following year Imes, local attorney John Frierson and local dentist Dr. D.D. Griffin formed a partnership and purchased The Columbus Commercial from Maer's ...
Area code 662, in the northern half of Mississippi.. Area code 662 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the northern half of the U.S. state of Mississippi, including the six counties (Benton, Coahoma, Desoto, Marshall, Tate and Tunica) that are part of the Memphis metro area.
Columbus High School was formed by the merger of the city's two previous high schools, Stephen D. Lee High School and Caldwell High School; the schools were merged in 1992 and the campuses in 1997. Columbus is also home to the oldest public elementary school in Mississippi, Franklin Academy Elementary, founded in 1821. [citation needed]
Area codes of Mississippi. The state of Mississippi is served by the following area codes: Area code 228 serves the Gulf Coast region of Mississippi. Area codes 601 and 769 serve most of southern Mississippi including Jackson. Area code 662 currently serves northern Mississippi, with 471 having been assigned for future distribution [1]
The Lowndes County Courthouse in downtown Columbus, Mississippi, is the seat of government for Lowndes County, in the northeastern part of the state. It was initially built in 1847 to designs of local architect James Lull and then remodeled in 1901-05 by Chattanooga -based architect Reuben H. Hunt , who also completed buildings for the ...
McCrary is an unincorporated community in Lowndes County, Mississippi. McCrary is located southeast of Columbus and northeast of New Hope on the Mississippi/Alabama state line. [1] McCrary is located on the former Mobile and Ohio Railroad and had a freight and passenger station. [2] [3] The community was once home to a cotton gin and sawmill. [4]
Rickenbacker International is primarily a cargo airport for the city of Columbus, although since 2012 it has served an increasing number of passenger flights as well as charter carriers. [ 2 ] The United States Air Force maintains a presence in the form of the Ohio Air National Guard 's 121st Air Refueling Wing .
Golden Triangle Regional Airport (IATA: GTR, ICAO: KGTR, FAA LID: GTR) is a public use airport in unincorporated Lowndes County, Mississippi. [2] [1] The airport is located approximately midway between the cities of Columbus, Starkville, and West Point, Mississippi, and serves the surrounding Golden Triangle region of Mississippi and parts of West Alabama.