Columbus, Mississippi

Columbus is a city in Lowndes County Mississippi. It is also the county seat of Lowndes County. The population was 24,084 at the 2020 census. The explorer Hernando de Soto. spent the winter of 1540–41 with the Chickasaw tribe camped near what is now the city of Columbus.Gloria A. Young; Michael P. Hoffman, Expedition of Hernando de Soto West of the Mississippi, 1541-1543 (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1993), p. 40

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