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Columbus is the county seat of Bartholomew County, Indiana, located about 40 miles south of Indianapolis where the Flatrock and Driftwood rivers join to form the East Fork of the White River.

Columbus was founded in 1821 as Tiptona, on land bought by General John Tipton, and was renamed Columbus in honor of Christopher Columbus later that same year; it was incorporated as a city in 1864.

One of Indiana's first railroads reached Columbus from Madison in 1844, tying the town to the Ohio River trade.

Columbus is the world headquarters of Cummins Inc., the Fortune 500 diesel engine manufacturer founded in the city in 1919.

Under Cummins leader J. Irwin Miller, the Cummins Foundation began paying architects' fees for public buildings in Columbus in the 1950s, on the condition the community chose from a list of top architects.

That program filled Columbus with works by Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, Robert Venturi, César Pelli and Richard Meier, earning the city the nickname 'Athens on the Prairie.'

The American Institute of Architects has ranked Columbus sixth in the nation for architectural innovation and design, behind only much larger cities like Chicago and New York.

Columbus has seven National Historic Landmarks, including Eero Saarinen's Miller House and North Christian Church and Eliel Saarinen's First Christian Church, completed in 1942 as one of America's first contemporary churches.

Henry Moore's monumental bronze sculpture Large Arch stands in the plaza outside the Bartholomew County Public Library, itself designed by I.M. Pei.

Columbus's population was 50,474 at the 2020 census, and the city anchors its own metropolitan statistical area covering all of Bartholomew County.