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COLUMBUS TIMELINE 1810 - By December 1810, John Pitchlynn, the U S Interpreter for the Choctaw Nation, had moved to Plymouth Bluff, where he built a home, established a farm and transacted Choctaw Agency business. 1813 - In August Gen. F L Claiborne reported that Pitchlynn was alarmed for his safety and was "fortifying". 1813 - In the fall of 1813 Pitchlynn's settlement probably consisted of a log dogtrot house, slave housing, blacksmith shop, kitchen, corncrib, smokehouse, and a blockhouse within a stockade. The fort he built was referred to as Ft. Smith and became a supply depot and meeting place for U S military leaders and Choctaw leaders during the Creek Indian War/War of 1812. 1815 - Settlers begin moving into the Buttahatchie Valley. A family named Mhoon was said to have settled near the present location of the Columbus Country Club between 1815 and 1817. 1816 - The Choctaw Indians signed a treaty on October 24, 1816, ceding territory that included the future site of Columbus. 1817 - In September, 1817, Capt. Hugh Young completed the survey of the Military Road, which had been commissioned by Congress in 1816, with it crossing the Tombigbee at the location that would become Columbus. That location was about four miles down river from Pitchlynn's. 1817 - In late 1817 Thomas Thomas built a "log hut" at the future site of Columbus. 1818 - In the fall of 1818 Gideon Lincecum and his family settled about where the Columbus Lock and Dam public boat ramp is now located. That site was just across the river from Pitchlynn's. 1819 - June 1819 saw the arrival of at least four families who settled at the site of Columbus. Among this group was Spirus Roach who possessed a distinctive pointed nose which resulted in the Indians referring to him as possum and the new settlement as Possum's Town. 1819 - Pitchlynn's home continued to be a center for Choctaw Agency business and served as a post office with Pitchlynn as postmaster 1819-1820. 1819 - In August, Gideon Lincecum moved to the site of Columbus. 1819 - Columbus was believed to be located in Alabama until late 1820. An act of the Alabama legislature in December 1819, established a voting precinct at "some suitable house in the town of Columbus." The act also provided that the "House of Henry Greer" (now Columbus AFB) be the county seat of Marion County, Alabama. THIS WAS THE FIRST OFFICIAL RECORD REFERRING TO COLUMBUS AS A TOWN. 1820 - A post office opened in Columbus in 1820, and Pitchlynn's P O was discontinued. 1821 - The Mississippi legislature passed an act creating Monroe County, Mississippi, which was signed by the Governor on February 9, 1821. The new county was to be organized at the house of Henry Greer. 1821 - The Mississippi legislature charted the town of Columbus on February 10, 1821. |
