Nine men wearing white button up shirts and ties standing in front of a lake. From left to right: J. P. Parker, J.V. Wallace, Otis Bunpess, Dammon Lumsford, E. Hatcher, Harold Gates, Wylie Gibson, W. Spurlvek, Allen J. Dennis.
Seven men standing in front of glass doors with Otis Bunpess looking to the side. From left to right: Wylie Gibson (Anderson Mill), Otis Bunpess, E. Hatcher, E.C.H., J.P. Parker, Dammon Lumsford, W. Spurlvek.
Seven men standing in front of glass doors. From left to right: Wylie Gibson (Anderson Mill), Otis Bunpess (Columbus Mill), E. Hatcher, E.C.H., J.P. Parker, Dammon Lumsford, W. Spurlvek.
The trade in slaves and the labor they produced was the foundation of Columbus both in supporting the plantation economy of cotton and the city’s rising industrial power. Slaves built and worked in the mills and they labored as blacksmiths,…
A view of one side of 5th Avenue. Some visible businesses include: Witt's Department Store, Elite Cafe, Phenix Restaurant, the Palace Theater. The date has been identified by the movie being screened at the Palace, 1958's THE BIG COUNTRY.
Six men, graduates of Bibb City Vocational School, standing together with their dipolmas. From left to right: Bernice James (received 2 degrees), Webster Balkcomi, Brady Pope, W. Oris Garrett, Henrey Whitlocks, Clifford Harden.
Seaborn Jones, a wealthy planter and Congressman, moved to Columbus in 1828. Purchasing a tract of riverfront property, he built the city’s first hydro-powered gristmill (corn and flour). In 1865, Union forces burned the City Mills and it was…
Built by slave labor, the Mott House was completed in 1839 for James Calhoun who was both a mill owner and the city’s mayor. James, cousin to vice-president of the United States John Calhoun, was one of the major land speculators who benefited from…
Late in the war, on April 16th, 1865, Union General James Wilson arrived on the west side of Girard, now Phenix City, Alabama. Having taken the cities of Selma and Montgomery, Wilson planned an attack on one of the major industrial hubs in the South,…