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Columbus (City and county-seat) (II)

a city, and county-seat of Lowndes co., Miss.; on the Mobile and Ohio and Southern railroads and the Tombigbee river; 150 miles S. E. of Memphis and the same distance N. E. of Jackson. It is the farming trade cen- There are over 800 manufacturing establishments, with an annual product valued at about $100,000,000. Among the chief products are wagons, boots and shoes, tobacco, and machine shop products. There are eight National banks. The exchanges in the clearing house for the year ending Sept. 30, 1919, were $638,410,000.

There are excellent street and sewer systems. The noteworthy buildings are the United States Government Building, containing the Postoffice and Federal 6-Vol. III-Cyc COLUMBUS Court; the State Capitol; the Ohio State University; Central Ohio Insane Asylum; Odd Fellows' Hall; Masonic Temple; the Franklin County Court House; Soldiers and Sailors' Memorial; Columbus Public Library; and Y. M. C. A. building, and among 70 Protestant and 10 Roman Catholic churches are: Trinity Church (P. E.), St. Joseph's Cathedral (R. C.), Second Presbyterian, St. Paul's (Germ.

Luth.), Broad Street (M. E.), Wesley Chapel, and the Third Avenue. The educational institutions include the Ohio State University, Columbus Normal School, Capital University, and several public and private high and secondary schools.

History. Columbus was laid out in 1812; became the seat of the State government in 1816; and was incorporated as a city in 1834, with a population of less than 4,000. Pop. (1910) 181,548; (1920) 237,031.