Local

Phenix City's 1954 Turning Point

Columbus, Ga. - The 1954 murder of Alabama attorney general nominee Albert Patterson in Phenix City led to martial law,...

Oct. 24, 2026

Local

FDR's Little White House: 16 Presidential Visits, an 88-Degree Spring and the…

Warm Springs, Ga. - President Franklin D. Roosevelt made 16 trips to Warm Springs during his presidency, staying in a mo...

Oct. 24, 2026

Local

Providence Canyon: 150-Foot Gullies, 2,706 Acres and Rusty 1950s Cars South of…

Columbus, Ga. - Providence Canyon State Park, known as Georgia's "Little Grand Canyon," covers 2,706 acres in Stewart Co...

Oct. 24, 2026

Arts & Culture

Carson McCullers' Columbus

Columbus, Ga. - Carson McCullers was just 23 when her first novel, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," was published in 1940...

Oct. 24, 2026

Arts & Culture

Ma Rainey's Columbus Story

Columbus, Ga. - Ma Rainey, the legendary singer known as the "Mother of the Blues," began performing as a young girl in...

Oct. 24, 2026

Local

The City Inside Columbus That Disappeared

Columbus, Ga. - For 91 years, Columbus had a small neighboring city built around a textile mill. Bibb City was incorpora...

Oct. 23, 2026

Local

Fort Benning's 3 Names Since 1918

Columbus, Ga. - Fort Benning has carried three official names since its establishment in 1918: Camp Benning, Fort Bennin...

Oct. 23, 2026

Local

National Infantry Museum: 7 Milestones Behind the Columbus Landmark That Has Drawn…

The National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center in Columbus has welcomed more than 3.8 million visitors since it opened...

Oct. 23, 2026

Local

Coca-Cola's Inventor Is Buried in Columbus, and RC Cola and Nehi Were Born Here

Columbus, Ga. - Three of America's best-known soft drinks trace back to Columbus. John Stith Pemberton, the man who inve...

Oct. 23, 2026

Arts & Culture

Columbus' Hidden 9-Acre Garden

Columbus, Georgia, has a nine-acre historic garden designed in the 1920s by the Olmsted Brothers, the landscape architec...

Oct. 22, 2026

Local

Columbus Airport's 6 Biggest Milestones

Columbus Airport has evolved from an early airmail facility serving the Chattahoochee Valley into a 680-acre regional ai...

Oct. 22, 2026

Local

Columbus RiverWalk: 34 Years of History, 22 Miles of Trails and the Transformation…

Columbus, Georgia, opened the first mile of its Chattahoochee RiverWalk on Oct. 12, 1992, beginning a transformation tha...

Oct. 22, 2026

Local

3 Columbus Landmarks Tell 155 Years of History

Columbus, Georgia, has three historic places that tell very different stories about the city's development: the Springer...

Oct. 22, 2026

Local

Columbus' 10 Biggest Chattahoochee River Floods Since 1841

Columbus, Ga., experienced its largest recorded Chattahoochee River flood on March 15, 1929, when the river carried an e...

Oct. 21, 2026

Local

The Night Fight on the Chattahoochee

A week after Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, the Civil War came to Columbus, Ga. On Easter Sunday, April 16, 18...

Oct. 21, 2026

Local

Columbus, Georgia, History Facts That May Surprise Even Lifelong Residents

Columbus, Georgia, is known for its military connections, riverfront attractions, historic neighborhoods and growing bus...

Oct. 10, 2026

Business

Coca-Cola, RC Cola, Aflac and More

You've probably had a cola, eaten a bag of peanuts or fired up a grill this year without knowing it all traces back to C...

Oct. 9, 2026

Food

The Oldest Restaurants Still Serving in Columbus and Phenix City

Restaurants come and go, but a few Columbus-area spots have been feeding the same families for generations. Here are the...

Oct. 8, 2026

Politics

Which of Georgia's 3 Amendments Is Most Likely to Pass?

Georgia voters will decide three changes to the state constitution on Nov. 3: a bigger property tax break for large farm...

Oct. 7, 2026

Politics

From Baker Village to City Hall

Isaiah Hugley likes to describe where he started: a public housing apartment in Baker Village, a family on welfare, trip...

Oct. 5, 2026

Community

Famous People From Columbus, Georgia

The blues, a Baseball Hall of Famer, a pioneering combat pilot and one of the most famous portraits in America all trace...

Oct. 5, 2026