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Columbus (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /, kə-LUM-bəs) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio.With a 2020 census population of 905,748, [10] it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest (after Chicago), and the third-most populous U.S. state capital (after Phoenix, Arizona, and Austin, Texas).
The Union Station arch is a 35 ft (11 m) Beaux-Arts arch standing at McFerson Commons Park in Columbus, Ohio. The work was designed by renowned architect Daniel Burnham , as part of a grand entranceway to the city's Union Station .
Taking down a streetcar arch at Broad and Wall streets, 1915. Arches were first used on streets in Columbus in 1888. The Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.), a national veterans organization, held its 22nd annual convention in the city that year, bringing about 250,000 people to the city that had held a population of about 90,000.
The arch in the Arena District, located in McFerson Commons near Nationwide Arena, started out as part of the Union Station train depot.
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Columbus is the second most populous city in Georgia (after Atlanta), and fields the state's fourth-largest metropolitan area. At the 2020 U.S. census , Columbus had a population of 206,922, [ 6 ] with 328,883 in the Columbus metropolitan statistical area . [ 3 ]
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1834 - Columbus Factory (textiles) in business. [5] 1836 - Columbus becomes "center of military operations" against the Creek during the Creek War of 1836, fought nearby. [1] 1840 - Wynnton School built (approximate date). [1] 1846 - Fire. 1847 - Columbus Board of Trade founded. 1850 Columbus Times newspaper begins publication. [3] Population ...