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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WUE_carson-mccullers-1917-1967-historical_Columbus-GA.html
With her critically acclaimed first novel, "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," published at age twenty - three, Carson McCullers was on her way to becoming one of the most widely read writers of her time. Born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, McCullers …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WUD_augusta-jane-evans-1835-1909-historical_Columbus-GA.html
Augusta Jane Evans (Wilson), one of the most popular American novelists of the nineteenth century and a native of Columbus, at the age of fifteen wrote her first novel, "Inez: A Tale of the Alamo," as a Christmas gift for her father. She is best-k…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WUC_nunnally-johnson-1897-1977-historical_Columbus-GA.html
Nunnally Johnson was a native of Columbus who left his job as a reporter for "The Columbus Enquirer - Sun" to eventually become one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriter/producers. By the age of thirty-five, Johnson had written two musicals …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WUB_prize-winning-newspapers-historical_Columbus-GA.html
Since the founding of Columbus in 1828, newspapers have played a vital role in the lives of area citizens. Both daily papers, "The Columbus Enquirer-Sun" (now "The Columbus Enquirer") and "The Columbus Ledger," are Pulitzer Prize-winning publicati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WUA_columbus-museums-historical_Columbus-GA.html
Created in the early 1950s as the city's first comprehensive museum, the Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1251 Wynnton Road, features permanent exhibits of fine and decorative arts, southeastern Indian artifacts, and regional history and folk…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WTK_kinfolks-corner-historical_Columbus-GA.html
From the 1840's, this building stood among others of its type at this historic downtown intersection. Known traditionally as "Kinfolks' Corner," the area was the meeting place for generations of citizens from Columbus and neighboring Alabama count…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WSM_primus-king-and-the-civil-rights-movement-historical_Columbus-GA.html
The modern Civil Rights Movement in Georgia began on July 4, 1944, when Primus E. King, an African-American barber and minister, attempted to vote at the Muscogee County Courthouse in the Democratic Party's primary election, which barred blacks fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WSL_pemberton-cottage-historical_Columbus-GA.html
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From 1855 to 1860 Dr. John S. Pemberton, originator of the formula for Coca-Cola, lived in this house with his family. Dr. Pemberton and his wife Ann Eliza Clifford Lewis had one son, Charles. As a druggist in Columbus, he originated sev…
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W. C. Bradley was a Columbus cotton merchant, industrialist, banker, and one of the city's leading entrepreneurs. He also helped form a business syndicate with Ernest Woodruff to purchase Coca-Cola from the Candlers in 1919. This group o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WSH_ernest-woodruff-robert-winship-woodruff-historical_Columbus-GA.html
Ernest Woodruff
Ernest Woodruff was born in 1863 at 1420 2nd Avenue. He first worked for his father, George Waldo Woodruff, in his Columbus Empire Flour Mills, then as President of Joel Hurt's Atlanta Streetcar Company, and as co-founder and Pr…