COLUMBUS, Ga., city and county-seat of Muscogee County, 95 miles southwest of At lanta, on the Chattahoochee River and on the Seaboard Air Line, the Southern and the Cen tral of Georgia railroads. It is at the head of navigation on the river and steamboat service is maintained with Apalachicola, Fla. Colum bus is the centre of a rural territory which is a large producer of beef and dairy cattle, live stock and hogs, peanuts, corn, oats, wheat, etc. The city's manufacturing industries have earned for it the title of the °Lowell of the South" and are operated mostly by hydro-electric power, of which the river at this point is capable of furnishing about 60,000 horse-power, 20,000 of which has been developed. The city has cotton and hosiery mills, lumber and building material plants, agricultural implement plants, iron and steel mills, bottling plants, fertilizer factories, flour and grist mills, cotton-seed oil mills, pea nut factories, showcase and fixture manufac tories, brick and sewer-pipe works, and barrel factories. About $20,000,000 is invested in the
city's industries and the value of the output is approximately $16,000,000 annually. The city contains an industrial school, three national banks, two exclusive savings banks and fine State banking institutions, and in addition the usual quota of churches, clubs, libraries, etc. The waterworks are controlled by the city. Columbus was settled in 1828 and incorporated the year following. In the Civil War the city was an important supply depot of the Con federates and a vast quantity of supplies for the Southern armies was manufactured here. On 16 April 1865, the city fell into the hands of the Federals. Pop. (1910) 20,554; (1917) about 25,000.