![]() ![]() ![]() It continues and describes the “gracious lines of Georgian porticos forming a belt of mellowed beauty about a modern business district.” Certainly, Columbus is a city known for its concentration of old homes, many of them antebellum. “Sprawling leisurely along the banks of the Tombigbee and Luxapalila Rivers, is a city in which there is room to breathe.” That’s how the opening line of the city’s entry in the 1938 WPA Guide to Mississippi begins. Undated postcard courtesy of the Mississippi State Archives, Cooper Postcard Collection. The banks of the Tombigbee River near Columbus, Mississippi. Of course, it does help that three of the state’s better known hauntings: Waverly, Errolton and Temple Heights are located in the city. Certainly, this city could be called the best documented city in Mississippi, at least in terms of its ghosts. ![]() That’s why I’ve been surprised to find so much information on Columbus. Where my research might turn up mounds of information, I can usually only find a trickle for the Magnolia State. I’ve been able to connect those with a few entries in some books, and voila I have the basis for a blog entry.Īs I stated in one of the first entries, it appears to me that Mississippi has not been as well documented as other Southern states. I stumbled on an article about a ghost tour being held in Columbus, Mississippi and it put me on the path to a handful of articles. Newspapers throughout the world are printing articles about local ghosts and ghost tours. The Google News Search feature is quite useful for web-based ghost hunting, especially around Halloween. ![]()
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