SOURCE: Anna Michele Traylor’s thesis Jim Crow in the City: Spatial Segregation in Columbus, Georgia, 1890–1944, Master of Arts thesis by Anna Michele Traylor, Auburn University 2016. The map above is dated c. 1900. The pink, orange, and green blocks denote where African Americans in Columbus were living at the time. There were two distinct areas - one in the south (Liberty District) and one in the north (West Highlands). The Liberty neighborhood extended as far north as Ele

SOURCE: Placenames in Columbus and Muscogee County: Part One by Kenneth H. Thomas, Jr. Muscogiana Journal, Vol. 22, Fall 2011. Thacker Howard House (Rosemont), 629 20th Street, once in the middle of a large estate. The interior was decorated with hand painted murals. Thacker Howard was the second oldest son. He married a Miss Thweatt. They had four sons, Thacker, Homer, Toombs, and Seaborn and three daughters, Rebecca, Mary, and Elizabeth (who married Henry T. Hall and was th

SOURCE: Placenames in Columbus and Muscogee County: Part One by Kenneth H. Thomas, Jr. Muscogiana  Journal, Vol. 22, Fall 2011. The origin of a placename is often shrouded in time, unless it can be attributed to a specific person or event. We know for example, the J. R. Allen Parkway was named in the 1970s for the then-Mayor who was killed in a plane crash. But how many people new to Columbus would know that? How would they learn the details? Trends in the use of certain type