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Aug 13, 2021 · COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - It’s official, Columbus is Georgia’s second largest city, narrowly beating Augusta in population over the last decade. Columbus’ population was over 206,000 according...
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]
Aug 12, 2021 · Columbus is Georgia’s second largest city, narrowly leapfrogging Augusta in population over the last decade. Columbus’ population was 206,922, as of April 1, 2020, according to data reported by...
Sep 10, 2024 · With a population of over 200,000 people, Columbus is the third-largest city in Georgia and has a lot to offer to both residents and tourists alike. In this article, we will take a closer look at some intriguing facts about Columbus.
- Antebellum Years
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Industrial Expansion
- Twentieth Century
- Recent Development
In 1828 the state legislature, realizing the economic potential of a location on the Chattahoochee River at the fall line, planned the city and auctioned its lots. The author Washington Irving’s contemporary writings about explorer Christopher Columbus probably influenced its naming. The original town consisted of a rectangle, thirteen blocks north...
Columbus reached its apogee during the 1860s. Its population ranked third among Georgia towns in 1860 and fifteenth among those joining the Confederacy. Its industrial output ranked tenth in the South, with its textile production probably second or third. Both its population and its manufacturing capacity increased during the Civil War(1861-65), bu...
Industrial reconstruction began immediately after 1865. R. L. Mott, a prominent Unionist (whose home still stands along the riverbank just north of Fourteenth Street), controlled the local Republican Party and the city during Reconstruction. As an entrepreneur, Mott simply joined with ex-Confederate and Democratic businessmen to rebuild. Local news...
Other leaders created educational and cultural institutions. Private endeavors established free kindergartens for mill children (1895) and for African Americans (1903), as well as a school for the “dinner-toters” who delivered lunches to the mills (1901)—all of which the public schoolsabsorbed before creating a secondary industrial school (1906). T...
By the 1970s the economy had changed. Local businessmen stopped excluding new industries that might raise local wages and began seeking new manufacturers, such as Dolly Madison Bakery (1970) and Pratt and Whitney (1984), which made jet engine parts. But local initiative created the most dynamic enterprises—Aflac Insurance, Synovus Financial Corpora...
Columbus is the second-largest city in Georgia. When I discovered Columbus’s treasure trove of attractions, I knew why it’s growing rapidly in popularity. I’ve visited many times, some comped press trips, but my opinions are my own. Here are some reasons to visit Columbus.
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Aug 16, 2021 · Columbus, with its 206,922 residents, edged out Augusta (202,081 population) for the title of Georgia’s second-largest city. In Northwest Georgia, Dalton is now a majority Hispanic city, with 50.85% of its 34,417 residents identifying as Hispanic or Latino., joining Doraville, which is 56% Hispanic.
