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ID: 2056204
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2056204
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Columbus (inhabited place)  Columbus (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 33 29 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 33.4833  decimal degrees
Long: 088 25 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -88.4167  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Tombigbee river near the Alabama border; established as a trading post in 1817; grew when steamboats began to dock here in 1822; was site of arsenal for Confederacy in Civil War; noted as birthplace of playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-1983).

Names:
Columbus (preferred,C,V)
Possum Town (H,V)  ............ name used until 1821

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Mississippi (state)  ............  Mississippi (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Lowndes (county)  ................  Lowndes (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Columbus (inhabited place)  ....................  Columbus (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled by European-Americans in 1817, incorporated in 1822
city (C)
agricultural center (C)
manufacturing center (C)  ............  produces textiles, chemicals & rubber products
educational center (C)
county seat (C)
state capital (H)  ............  when Jackson was occupied by North in 1863 in Civil War

Sources and Contributors:
Columbus..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 476
.................  Gousha: Mississippi (1996)
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS28003542
Possum Town..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 476
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS28003542
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 476
..................  Gousha: Mississippi (1996)
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS28003542
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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