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Columbus, Georgia was founded in 1828 by an act of the Georgia Legislature as a planned trading town at the head of navigation on the Chattahoochee River, and it was named for Christopher Columbus.

Columbus sits on the Chattahoochee River directly across from Phenix City, Alabama, at the fall line where the river's rapids once powered its mills.

By 1840 Columbus had become a leading inland cotton port, and its textile industry, powered by the Chattahoochee's falls, later earned it the nickname 'the Lowell of the South'; it is also known as 'the Fountain City.'

The Battle of Columbus, fought on April 16, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.

In 1971 Columbus and Muscogee County merged into a consolidated city-county government, one of the earliest such consolidations in Georgia.

The 2020 census counted 206,922 people in the consolidated city-county of Columbus, making it one of Georgia's largest cities, with a metropolitan population of 328,883.

Just south of the city stands Fort Moore, established in 1918 as Camp Benning and renamed in 2023 for Lt. Gen. Hal Moore; it is home to the U.S. Army's Maneuver Center of Excellence and Infantry School.

Columbus is home to the National Infantry Museum, dedicated to the history of the U.S. Army's Infantry Branch.

Columbus built what is described as the longest urban whitewater rafting course in the world on the Chattahoochee River through its downtown, created after an upriver dam was demolished and opened in the Ready to Raft era of 2012.

The Chattahoochee RiverWalk, a roughly 15-mile linear park, runs along the river through the city for walking and biking.