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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]
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]
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]
The first Columbus and Greenville Railway (reporting mark C&G) was formed by the sale of the Southern Railway operated Southern Railway in Mississippi, to local interests. In January 1952, the CAGY retired its last steam locomotive, Baldwin 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler #304 built in 1904. [ 1 ]
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. ...
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 ]
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]