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Columbia (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 34 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 34.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 081 02 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -81.0333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located in W central S Carolina on Congaree River; was city of refuge in USA Revolution; transportation & communications center for Confederacy during Civil War; shelled, entered & burned by General Sherman in 1865, then rebuilt with diversified economy. |
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Columbia (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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settled ca. 1700, founded & laid out 1786 as centralized location for state capital to replace Charleston, incorporated 1854 |
| city (C) |
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| state capital (C) |
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| county seat (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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for structural steel |
| manufacturing center (C) |
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for synthetic fibers, textiles, aerospace & electronic equipment, glass & plastics |
| administrative center (C) |
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especially during Civil War |
| trade center (C) |
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as wholesaler & distributor |
| agricultural center (C) |
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for peaches, cotton & tobacco |
| educational center (C) |
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for University of S Carolina (1805), Lutheran Seminary & for Columbia, Benedict, Midlands Technical & Columbia Bible colleges |
| cultural center (C) |
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for theater, & Columbia Museum of Art & Science |
| tourist center (C) |
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for President Woodrow Wilson's boyhood home, estate of Robert Mills, designer of Washington Monument & for national forests |
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South Carolina .......... (state) |
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(World, North and Central America, United States) [7007712] |
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