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ID: 7013643
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013643
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Columbus (inhabited place)  Columbus (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 32 27 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 32.4500  decimal degrees
Long: 084 59 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -84.9833  decimal degrees

Note: Located W Georgia at head of Chattahoochee River navigation & opposite Phoenix, Alabama; grew as inland cotton port; was major supply city for Confederacy during Civil War & site of last battle E of Mississippi River; developed thriving textile industry.

Names:
Columbus (preferred,C,V)

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 Georgia (state)  ............  Georgia (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Muscogee (county)  ................  Muscogee (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Columbus (inhabited place)  ....................  Columbus (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  established in 1827 as frontier post cut from wilderness, incorporated 1828, consolidated with Muscogee County since 1971
city (C)
county seat (C)
inland port (C)  ............  was leading port by 1840 for cotton & textiles, construction of dams & locks has since revived river traffic
manufacturing center (C)  ............  is a leading industrial center producing brick & tile, agricultural implements, fertilizer & especially textiles
power production center (C)
military center (C)  ............  for Fort Benning (1918), site of USA Army Infantry Museum
educational center (C)  ............  for Columbus College (1958)
frontier settlement (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Columbus..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 477
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS13004875
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 282
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 477
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS13004875
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 282
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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