William Green, Labor Leader / The Columbus Streetcar Strike, 191

William Green, Labor Leader

A native of Coshocton County, William Green (1870-1932) began his working life as a coal miner at age 16 and rose rapidly in the leadership of the United Mine Workers of America. Twice elected to the Ohio ...

The Irish in Columbus

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Thousands of Irish immigrants came to Columbus to seek personal and religious freedom. With the "Great Hunger" in Ireland and the completion of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the National Road, immigration to Columbus increased in the mid ...

Columbus Main Library / Judge Noah Swayne Home

Columbus Main Library

The first tax supported free public library in Columbus was formed in 1873 and housed in City Hall. In 1901, City Librarian John Pugh petitioned Andrew Carnegie for funding and was granted $200,000. In 1903, the Swayne home ...

Ohio-Erie Canal and Locks / The Columbus Feeder Canal

Ohio-Erie Canal and Locks

The Ohio-Erie Canal was built between 1825 and 1832 and extended 308 miles from Lake Erie at Cleveland to the Ohio River at Portsmouth. The greatest engineering achievement in Ohio up to that time, the canal gave ...

Columbus’ First Theater

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A pioneer theatrical entrepreneur, Sol Smith, 1801-1869, built many theaters in the Deep South, including New Orleans and Mobile and the first permanent theater west of the Mississippi in St. Louis, a city that he and partner Noah Ludlow ...

City of Columbus

This city of Columbus was created as a trading town by an act of the General Assembly of Georgia, December 24, 1827. The location designated was on the Chattahoochee River near the Coweta Falls. This spot was selected because it ...

Original Port Columbus Airport Terminal

1929-1958

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The original Port Columbus Airport terminal was founded by the people of Columbus and was one of the first airport facilities in the United States. Dedicated on July 8, 1929, Port Columbus was the first transfer point in the ...

Columbus

Originally, 1817-21, known as Possum Town. Became one of richest cities in old Black Prairie cotton belt. Home of state's first free school and M.S.C.W.

Marker is on Main Street (Mississippi Route 182) near Old Highway 82W.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Columbus 500 Celebration

This monument was erected by the citizens of the 140th legislative district in tribute to Christopher Columbus and those who followed him to America.

Celebration

We celebrate the 500th anniversary of the 1st voyage of Christopher Columbus, whose great ...

Dr. Columbus Mills

In Honor of

Dr. Columbus Mills

Planter and Physician

"Father of Polk County"

After a ten-year effort to create a new county from parts of Henderson and Rutherford Counties, the

North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation,

thanks to Dr. Columbus Mills' efforts, ...