City of Columbus

Laid out by the legislature in 1828 on a bluff at the Chattahoochee fall line, Columbus was Georgia's last planned 'frontier' city, sited where the river's drop promised the waterpower that soon made it a mill and manufacturing center.

City of Columbus is a historical marker in Columbus, Muscogee County, erected in 1953. It is one of 92 historical markers documented in Muscogee County, among 248 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 32.4677, -84.9933 near Columbus. The nearest cataloged historic site is Hofflin & Greentree Building (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Kress, Power and Baird, Wholesale Dry Goods and Notions, and Synovus.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.