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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5EQ_franklin-academy_Columbus-MS.html
State's oldest free school. Has functioned since 1821. Worthy trustees, using 16th section income & employing able teachers, early made Columbus a cultural center in northeast Mississippi.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5EA_first-methodist-church_Columbus-MS.html
Oldest church organization in Columbus, dating from 1831. Second structure, built in 1844, became synagogue after building of present church, 1860-1867.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5E9_first-home-of-tennessee-williams_Columbus-MS.html
One of America's leading playwrights, Tennessee Williams was born here March 26, 1911. He received the Pulitzer Prize for "Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Both stories set in the South.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5E8_first-christian-church_Columbus-MS.html
Founded, 1839, through efforts of Talbert Fanning and David Lipscomb. Present structure, erected 1849-50, housed refugee State Senate in Civil War. Here Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterways Agreement was signed in 1958.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5E7_demonstration-school_Columbus-MS.html
The first "laboratory" school for teacher training in the state was established in 1907 by the faculty of Industrial Institute and College (1884), now Mississippi University for Women, the first public college for women in America. The present str…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5E6_c-s-a-arsenal_Columbus-MS.html
Here in 1862 Confederacy built huge arsenal employing over 1000 persons. Later one of buildings became original site of Union Academy, first free public school for Negroes in Columbus.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5E5_confederate-decoration-day_Columbus-MS.html
Began here, April 25, 1866, with first annual placing of flowers on graves of Blue and Gray. Idea originated at meeting in Twelve Gables home of Miss Matt Morton.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5CB_columbus_Columbus-MS.html
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.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5CA_church-of-the-annunciation_Columbus-MS.html
Dedicated in 1863. This is the oldest Catholic Church in NE Miss. It once served a parish that included Corinth & Meridian. The design for the Gothic structure was conceived by Fr. J. B. Mouton, the first pastor.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5C9_brownlee-family-cemetery-1825_Columbus-MS.html
Estab. in 1825 on the corner of a 1400 acre plantation owned by James Brownlee, Sr. & his wife Mary. Three brothers who lost their lives in the service of the Confederate States of America lie buried here.