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Encyclopedia Britannica



COLUMBIA

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 739 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
COLUMBIA , a city and the county-seat of
Maury
  county,
Tennessee
 , U.S.A., situated on the Duck river, in the central part of the state, 46 m. S. of Nashville. Pop. (1890) 5370; (1900) 6052 (2716 negroes); (1910) 5754. Columbia is served by the Louisville & Nashville, and the Nashville, Chattanooga & St Louis railways. It is the seat of the Columbia Institute for girls (under
Protestant
  Episcopal
control
 ), founded in 1836, and of the Columbia Military
Academy
 . Columbia is in a fine farming
region; is engaged extensively in the mining and shipping of phosphates; has an important trade in live-stock, especially mules; manufactures
cotton
 , lumber, flour, bricks, pumps and woollen goods; and has marble and stone works. Columbia was settled about 18o7 and was incorporated in 1822. During the Civil War it was the base from which General N. B.
Forrest
  operated in 18621863, and was alternately occupied by Con-federate and Federal forces during General Hood's Nashville campaign (November-December 1864).


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