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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]
Alabama and Mississippi Railroad: A&M 1902 1921 Mississippi and Alabama Railroad, Mississippi Export Railroad: Alabama and Vicksburg Railway: A&V IC: 1889 1959 Illinois Central Railroad: Arkansas City and Grenada Railroad: C&G: 1872 1873 Greenville, Columbus and Birmingham Railroad: Avera and Northeastern Railroad: 1929 1933 Batesville ...
South Columbus Historic District is a historic district in Columbus, Mississippi that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1] Its 1980 nomination lists 525 structures and sites. [2] According to the nomination:
Lowndes County is a county on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 58,879. [1] Its county seat is Columbus. [2] The county is named for U.S. Congressman William Jones Lowndes. [3] Lowndes County comprises the Columbus, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area. [4]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lowndes County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
Columbus: 169.4: 272.6: MS 182 east (Main Street) – Columbus: Western terminus of Columbus section of MS 182: 170.0: 273.6: US 45 north / MS 50 west / MS 69 south (N 5th Street) – West Point, Aberdeen, Amory: Eastern end of US 45 concurrency; Western end of MS 50 concurrency; Northern terminus of MS 69: 170.6: 274.6: North 18th Avenue: 171. ...
The Golden Triangle (GTR) is a region in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Mississippi.The "triangle" is formed by the cities of Columbus, Starkville, and West Point but the region is often more broadly-defined to include all of Clay, Lowndes, and Oktibbeha counties and sometimes additional surrounding communities and counties as well. [1]
However, the railroad did extend a spur line in order to serve Columbus, and that spur line joins the main line at the site of present-day Artesia. Artesia was the site of a voter suppression incident in 1876 in which a group of heavily armed white men from Starkville came to intimidate black voters in the Republican Club. [ 2 ]