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Tombigbee TalesThe Amzi Love Home in Columbus, MSThe Amzi Love Home in Columbus, MS was built by Amzi Love as a gift to his bride Edith Wallace. It has remained in the family for over 5 generations. It is open for tours by appointment.
2024-07-3110 minTombigbee TalesThe Ghosts in the Cicero Lincoln Home in Columbus, MSThe Lincoln Home is one of the earlier homes built in Columbus. It is a raised cottage style Gothic/Greek Revival Home. It also is haunted by at least four different former residents.
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Tombigbee TalesTennessee Williams Birthplace in Total DisrepairNancy Luke Carpenter and the Board of the Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation have allowed the birthplace of Tennessee Williams to fall in utter disrepair. Please email the board and tell them to remove Carpenter as CEO and to do the right thing to repair the building and to be transparent in their actions.
Board President Brenda Willis: willisbw66@aol.com
Treasurer Sonic Johnson: sonic.johnson77@gmail.com
2024-07-1211 minTombigbee TalesThe Tombigbee River and the Underground Railroad: Follow the Drinkin' GourdThe Tombigbee River was the path to freedom for many escaped enslaved people. Their directions were found in a folk song:
Follow the drinkin' gourd
Follow the drinkin' gourd
For the old man is comin' just to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinkin' gourd
When the sun comes back, and the first quail calls
Follow the drinkin' gourd
For the old man is waiting just to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinkin' gourd
Follow the drinkin' gourd
Follow the drinkin' gourd
For the old man is w...2024-07-1005 minTombigbee TalesMississippi Black Belt Prairie BluesIt was in this Black Belt Prairie impoverished environment that many great Blues musicians rose to prominence.
2024-07-0927 minTombigbee TalesHickory Sticks and the Valentine's Day Ghost - Columbus, MSHickory Sticks is one of the oldest homes if not the oldest home still in existence in Columbus, MS. Built between 1815-1820, the home has a spectral visitor during Valentines each year. Who is it and why is he insistent on going upstairs to bed every year?
2024-07-0709 minTombigbee TalesThe Ghost Rider of Wisteria Place in Columbus, MSWisteria Place has a man who walks up the road out of the foggy mist of early morning leading a horse carrying a man in confederate gray bent over the saddle. They disappear once they turn in the back drive. Who are they?
2024-07-0508 minTombigbee TalesGhost Hunting at the Princess Theatre in Columbus, MSThe Princess Theatre in Columbus, MS is known for significant paranormal activity. It is thought to be Mr. Kuykendal, the former president of the Motion Pictures Theater Owners of America from 1932 until his death in 1946.
2024-07-0410 minTombigbee TalesThe Ghost of Henry Betts at the Lowndes County CourthouseHenry Betts' execution at the Lowndes County Courthouse was botched. He was a large Black man who was accused of murder. He weighed over 300 lbs and stood 6'6" tall. He was most probably railroaded into a conviction. He "confessed" to save his brother.
2024-07-0107 minTombigbee TalesCharles Baskerville - Columbus Born Discoverer of Carolinium and BerzeliumCharles Baskerville, chemist and college professor, was born (1870) at Deerbrook, Noxubee County, Mississippi, the son of Charles Baskerville, a physician and former CSA captain, and his wife, Augusta Johnson. He was educated in Columbus, MS. and raised by his paternal grandparents. Charles would lay claim to the discovery of two chemical elements.
2024-06-3010 minTombigbee TalesReverend Pleasant Bowler and the First All African American Male JuryPleasant Bowler was a scam artist and flim flam man who posed as a Baptist minister and helped found the Shiloh Baptist Church in Burns Bottom in Columbus, Mississippi after the Civil War. He murdered Sheriff Cline in a struggle and was brought before a Reconstruction Era Judge from Ohio and an all Black male jury in the Lowndes County Courthouse in 1869. This jury is alleged to be the first all Black jury in US history.
2024-06-2913 minTombigbee TalesThe Tennessee Williams is on the Brink of Structural Collapse in Columbus, MSThe Tennessee Williams building has been so neglected under the reign of Nancy Luke Carpenter that the floor joists are completely rotted under the building and so all renovations are at a complete standstill.
2024-06-1907 minTombigbee TalesFirst State Funded College for Women in the US and the Women Who Fought For ItThe women who fought for the first state funded college for women in the United States were Sarah "Sallie" Eola Reneau, Olivia Valentine Hastings, and Annie Coleman Peyton. Three of the most stubborn, brilliant, and courageous women the antebellum South ever produced. These ladies were no shrinking violets.
2024-06-1811 minTombigbee TalesAlva N. Temple and the Tuskegee AirmenAlva Temple and three other Tuskegee Airmen won the 1949 inaugural USAF Gunnery Meet...essentially their version of Top Gun. Yet their names were never recorded as the winners and were listed as "unknown" until 1995 and their trophy stuck in the back of a storage closet at Wright Patterson AFB Museum.
Temple retired to Columbus, Mississippi and opened a service station and radiator repair shop on HWY 69.
2024-06-1610 minTombigbee TalesMississippi Author Julie Liddell Whitehead Hurricane Baby InterviewMississippi author Julie Liddell Whitehead's new book Hurricane Baby is coming out this fall. Her publishing journey started with a short story within days of weathering Katrina in Brandon, MS and the book just kept growing from there. Follow along as she shares her book beginnings so far!
https://julieliddellwhitehead.com/
2024-06-1453 minTombigbee TalesMississippi Artist Lee HarperMississippi Artist Lee Harper is an amazing miniature artist. She lives in Oxford, MS where she is a painter and miniaturist who takes commissions.
See her work at:
https://www.instagram.com/leeharperoxford/
https://www.tinyhistorystudios.com/
2024-06-0748 minTombigbee TalesThe Education Legacy of Stephen D. LeeStephen D. Lee was and is a controversial Southern figure; however, his emphasis on education was embraced not only by his son but by his direct descendants and their spouses. Their education has benefitted the world of aeronautics, law, forensic science, constitutional rights, and space exploration.
2024-06-0409 minTombigbee TalesFrances Glessner Lee, Mother of Forensic ScienceFrances Glessner Lee, the Mother of Forensic Science, was the daughter-in-law of General Stephen D. Lee and his wife Regina. Her Nutshell Studies are still taught in homicide investigation training around the country.
2024-06-0306 minTombigbee TalesThe Hairston Major League Baseball Dynasty of Lowndes County, MSSam Hairston was born in Lowndes County on the Hairston Plantation less than a month before the founding of the Negro League. He would grow up to play for the Birmingham Black Barons before being drafted by the Chicago White Sox.
2024-06-0207 minTombigbee TalesMinor League Baseball Teams of Columbus, MississippiColumbus, MS had three different minor league baseball teams that supplied multiple players to the MLB:
1907-1908 Columbus Discoverers (Cotton States League)
1912-1913 Columbus Joy Riders (Cotton States League)
1935 Columbus Bengals (East Dixie League)
2024-05-3017 minTombigbee TalesRed Sox Pitcher Ronnie Richardson and Mississippi Exclusive Pitching AcademyFormer Red Sox Pitcher Ronnie Richardson shares his expertise with young men at his (soon to open) Mississippi Exclusive Pitching Academy in Columbus, MS.
On Facebook: Mississippi Exclusive Pitching Academy w/Ronnie Richardson
2024-05-2129 minTombigbee TalesBlewett Harrison LeeBlewett H. Lee, son of Confederate General S. D. Lee was a pioneer in Aviation Law and ensuring religious freedom for more esoteric beliefs.
2024-05-1907 minTombigbee TalesA Second Missing Sign and the Mississippi John Hurt Museum FireThe sign at Avalon went missing before the fire. It turned up on the property next door to the Spain family who caused such an ugly fuss at last year's dedication and memorial walk at the St. James MB Cemetery where "Daddy" John aka Mississippi John Hurt is buried.
Coincidence? Many updates related to the fire and local law enforcement.
Mary Frances Hurt is seeking an attorney to deal with State Farm malfeasance in Mississippi. Any info please contact me here or on my FB (or the Hurt Foundation FB messages) and I will share the in...2024-05-161h 09Tombigbee TalesRuth Ford and Charles Henri Ford - Columbus' First BohemiansRuth Ford and Charles Henri Ford grew up in the Gilmer Hotel where their father ran the Cafe. Ruth would become an accomplished actress in film and on the stage and Charles Henri would gain notoriety as a poet and novelist.
2024-05-0708 minTombigbee TalesAlexander Meek - Poet, Orator, StatesmanAlexander Meek was a poet, orator, and statesman from Alabama. He married Eliza Cannon, the late wife of Col. William Cannon. Meek was a pro-Unionist who served as Alabama's Speaker of the House and at the state's secessionist convention. He is buried in Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, MS.
2024-05-0611 minTombigbee TalesA Woman Named Frank - Frank Miller and Karl JungFrank Miller was the great-niece of Lucy Irion Neilson of Columbus, MS. How did one woman's essay change the course of Jung's work and facilitate his complete split from Freud?
2024-05-0310 minTombigbee TalesThe Good Old Boys' Club2024-04-2817 minTombigbee TalesCleaning Up Carpenter's MessesNancy Luke Carpenter has spent/committed every dime (and then some) in the CVB marketing budget on her way out the door with six months left to go in the fiscal year. What else has she committed money to and the bills have just not rolled in yet?
2024-04-2513 minTombigbee TalesNancy Luke Carpenter Swans About TownNancy Luke Carpenter is going to bleed the Columbus Cultural Foundation dry and ruin the Tennessee Williams Welcome Center's good name. Follow the money!
2024-04-2011 minTombigbee TalesLucy Nielson's Journal 1860-1865 Columbus, MS2024-04-1817 minTombigbee TalesCash Strapped Nancy CarpenterWhere's Carpenter going to find the money to support her champagne life style with her lite beer budget at the Tennessee Williams Building?
2024-04-0507 minTombigbee TalesThe New Anti-Tourism Director at the Tennessee Williams Welcome CenterThe New Anti-Tourism Director at the Tennessee Williams Welcome Center wants to close it during Spring Pilgrimage...their busiest time of year!
2024-03-3108 minTombigbee TalesPorch Fest 2024 in Columbus, MS April12-13Porch Fest 2024 in Columbus, MS April12-13 at Munson Bros will feature bands, comedians, artists, and food trucks!!! Bring your lawn chair and come listen to great musicians from all over the Eastern US.
This is going to be epic! All flavors of music to be played.
2024-03-2935 minTombigbee TalesThe Murder Lynchings of John Gordon, George Washington Marshall (aka Evans), Alex Latham, Essex Green2024-03-2911 minTombigbee TalesCharles Melvin Lollar - Murder or Self-DefensePlantation owner Mel Lollar went to the cabin of John Odum to kick he and his family off the Lollar's land. An argument ensued and Lollar was gut shot 8 times.
2024-03-2305 minTombigbee TalesAlexander McClung - Bad Boy, Duelist, and Mexican War HeroAlexander McClung was involved in at least a dozen duels. He organized the Tombigbee Volunteers to go to the Mexican War in 1846. He is buried in Soldiers Cemetery in Vicksburg, MS but has a cenotaph in Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, MS.
2024-03-2006 minTombigbee TalesCaroline Seabury - Yankee Teacher in Columbus, MS 1854-1863Caroline Seabury came to Columbus Female Institute from Brooklyn, NY to teach French in 1854. She would be the tutor for the children of Col. George Hampton Young at Waverley Mansion. She would stay there until after the Fall of Vicksburg before leaving North for home and an uncertain future.
2024-03-1926 minTombigbee TalesRalph Vituccio Interview about the Mississippi John Hurt Museum Fire and March2024-03-1452 minTombigbee TalesThe Carroll County, MS Sheriff and the Not Missing Blues Trail MarkerCarroll County, Mississippi Sheriff Clint Walker endangers private citizens' lives over accusations related to a missing Blues Trail Marker that is in the hands of Mississippi Blues Trail Commission designees Hammons and Associates. Walker has yet to reach out to the family or Hammons and Associates.
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Tombigbee TalesMississippi John Hurt Memorial Walk and the Racist NeighborsInterview with Cy Yuan Suo about his experience at the Mississippi John Hurt Memorial Walk in October 2023, where the marchers, students, and Mary Frances Hurt, the granddaughter of Blues musician John Hurt were heckled by racist neighbors in Carroll County, Mississippi.
2024-03-0745 minTombigbee TalesArson - Mississippi John Hurt's House BurnedThe Director of the Mississippi John Hurt Foundation - Mississippi John Hurt's Granddaughter Mary Francis Hurt talks about the fire, the lack of information, suspicions of arson, and the "theft" of the Blues Trail Marker.
Ugly racist motives and white supremacists abound in the Mississippi Delta...
To follow/suppport the Mississippi John Hurt Foundation on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnhurtfoundation
2024-03-061h 05Tombigbee TalesThe Frazier Gaston Home - The House on Bridge StreetThere is a tale attached to this house...that it was turned by a team of oxen from facing the river to face Bridge Street and all the new bridge traffic. Let's explore a little early Columbus history found in this almost 200 year old home.
2024-03-0315 minTombigbee TalesMSMS Bill 2715 - Vote NO!Call your Mississippi legislators and tell them to vote NO on Bill 2715 to move MSMS to Mississippi State's Campus!
2024-03-0110 minTombigbee TalesNancy Luke Carpenter Hits the Panic ButtonThe outgoing director of the Columbus Visitor's Bureau, Nancy Luke Carpenter tried to undermine and negate the contracts of the new Director and the new COO at the February board meeting.
2024-02-2808 minTombigbee TalesMUW Alienates Alumni Through IncompetenceMUW's fiasco riddled naming committee has alienated the alumni with their lack of transparency, lack of inclusion, and total incompetence resulting in zero confidence in the school's leadership.
2024-02-2623 minTombigbee TalesLiars, Bots, and Middle School BehaviorMississippi University for Women's new branding "expert" and her pals seem to think the host of this podcast is at least three different people...so let's dispel that myth...and discuss the clones that ARE out there. I invite all of those suspected clones to join me on a zoom call with a camera...(the film version of this podcast will be available on YouTube).
2024-02-2248 minTombigbee TalesThe MUW Clone WarSomeone is cloning alumni Facebook profiles and trying to skew public sentiment on state legislator Clay Mansell's page.
2024-02-1708 minTombigbee TalesMUW's Bots and BulliesMUW is using bots and fake profiles to skew public sentiment positively on Facebook on the recent name change announcement.2024-02-1509 minTombigbee TalesSlapping Lipstick on MUWs Heifer WynbridgeThe powers that be at Mississippi University for Women are slapping lipstick on their renaming efforts and royally alienating alumni...and it is UGLY...
2024-02-1314 minTombigbee TalesMUW Renaming BoondoggleMississippi University for Women has had two failed renaming campaigns and is currently on their third...why is so much money and energy put into rebranding the University when students say they are exiting because they don't feel safe on campus and their rooms are devoid of the minimum expectations of housing: heating and air conditioning.
Bernie Ellis, MA, MPH, a 7th generation Lowndes Countian, retired public health epidemiologist, former Program Director at the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and a former Assistant Dean of Admissions at Vanderbilt University provides insights and observations o...2024-02-1152 minTombigbee TalesThe Cat's Out of the Bag with Nancy Carpenter's IncompetenceCVB Director Nancy Carpenter won't return calls or emails to tournament organizers. In other words, she is not doing her job!
2024-02-0908 minTombigbee TalesNancy Carpenter and the Pig in a PokeNancy Carpenter is scrambling to find the match share grant for the Tennessee Williams building because she waited to the last minute - as usual - and her last minute mess is catching up with her. She's getting pretty desperate.
2024-02-0809 minTombigbee TalesWhy the CCHF Director Nancy Luke Carpenter and Mayor Keith Gaskin Make Such Odd BedfellowsCCHF Director Nancy Luke Carpenter and Mayor Keith Gaskin are making some shady backroom deals with OUR tax dollars.
To follow my Facebook page where the mayor has been commenting: https://www.facebook.com/ShannonBEvans
2024-02-0412 minTombigbee TalesAbe Loftis-Constable: Fallen in the Line of DutyAbe Loftis was a constable in Columbus, MS who fell to his death breaking up a craps game on top of the coal chute at the Southern Railroad yard.
2024-02-0208 minTombigbee TalesSt. Paul's EpiscopalRector J. H. Ingraham and Cecil B. DeMilleSt. Paul's Episcopal Church of Columbus' Rector J. H. Ingraham's book The Pillar of Fire was the most popular book across the US (other than the Bible) after the Civil War. His name appears as the writer on the movie The Ten Commandments right after Cecil B. DeMille's.
2024-01-3006 minTombigbee TalesHilma Ensminger - Poisoner or Victim?Did Hilma Ensminger try and poison her step-son or was she framed?
2024-01-2911 minTombigbee TalesApplication Numbers and Missing Grant ElementsThe actual application sent to MDAH is super interesting for what it contains and what it did NOT contain. Did MDAH VP Nancy Luke Carpenter get special treatment by her pals on the grant board?
2024-01-2611 minTombigbee TalesThe MDAH Grant Particulars and the Tennessee Wiliams HomeCarpenter and the Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation have to come up with over $200,000 up front for their latest grant boondoggle at the Tennessee Williams home before they ever get a dime of reimbursement from the MDAH. How is THAT going to work out?
2024-01-2508 minTombigbee TalesWhere is the Tennessee Williams Welcome Center Money Renovations Money Going to Come From?Where is the Tennessee Williams Welcome Center Money Renovations Money Going to Come From? The work has to be paid out of pocket and then reimbursed at 80%. Where does Nancy Luke Carpenter and the board at the Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation think that money will come from? Certainly not the CVB!
2024-01-2410 minTombigbee TalesTalkin' Sports with Roger B. BrownBorn in Columbus, MS, graduate of S. D. Lee High and Tougaloo University, journalist Roger B. Brown will be inducted posthumously in the Texas Black Sports Hall of Fame on February 24, 2024.
2024-01-2106 minTombigbee TalesThe Bridge and the Investors - Credit Where Credit is DueWhen the CVB Director Nancy Luke Carpenter makes wild claims, people now know to question them and look for the truth. Sometimes the truth is more interesting than her "claims".
2024-01-1710 minTombigbee TalesNancy Carpenter and the CVBs Unpaid BillsThe Columbus Convention and Visitor's Bureau director, Nancy Luke Carpenter has "lost" $15,000+ owed to the Historic Home Tours Association. Additionally, she is charging them for her overspending (in kind) on advertising for the Spring Pilgrimage.
2024-01-1509 minTombigbee TalesThe Murder of Dexter Wade in plot #672 Behind the Hinds County Jail in MississippiDexter Wade's body was finally found by his mother in plot #672 behind the Hinds County Jail in Jackson, Mississippi.
For more follow Tazadaqya on Tiktok: @upkmississippi
2024-01-1356 minTombigbee TalesThe Murder of John Allison Hardy at Lone Pine PlantationJohn Allison Hardy was a well respected business man, plantation owner, and community leader. He was gunned down on his property on a cold rainy February night in 1952. The man hunt that ensued was one of the largest the state ever held. #murder #murderinmississippi #mississippi #columbusms #tombigbeetales
2024-01-1111 minTombigbee TalesGhost and Paranormal Tourism and the Columbus Visitors BureauThe benign neglect of the director of the Columbus Visitors Bureau, Nancy Luke Carpenter and her lack of investment in our town's future tourism almost resulted in the loss of a film documentary and a series of YouTube documentaries on the ghosts and legends of our town. Ghost tourism is a HUGE boost for many communities. We are missing out due to Carpenter's apathy.
The Historic Home Tours of Columbus, Mississippi: https://www.facebook.com/HistoricHomeToursOfColumbus
2024-01-1013 minTombigbee TalesMississippi’s Magnolia Literacy Project with LaWanda DickensTHE MAGNOLIA LITERACY PROJECT (MLP) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that uses literacy as a means of celebrating Mississippi while promoting activism and advocacy across the state. The organization's mission is to offer a platform for young Mississippians to showcase literary talent, build identity, and represent community. Our goal is to provide youth with cultural enrichment, mentoring, and publishing opportunities while teaching multimodal literacy. Empowering writers, visual artists, orators, photographers, and videographers, we serve communities that lack widespread access to growth resources.
To learn more:
https://www.magnolialiteracyproject.org/
2024-01-0741 minTombigbee TalesAugusta Palmer Film Maker of the Memphis Country Blues Festival DocumentaryAugusta Palmer Film Maker of the Memphis Country Blues Festival Documentary shares her experience with capturing the history the Festival spearheaded by her father Robert Palmer and of country blues artists including Bukka White from Aberdeen, MS.
1/26 NJ Film Festival (tickets to watch online or to attend): https://watch.eventive.org/newjerseyfilmfestivalspring2024/play/65248690160895008328b0c0
1/27 Clarksdale (link to event info):
https://www.clarksdalefilmfestival.com/index.php2024-01-0537 minTombigbee TalesSociopath Among Us - Jon Mattox and the Murder of Gene TateJon Mattox murdered Gene Cain Tate on Jan 31, 1960 in Columbus, Mississippi #columbusms #visitcolumbus #mississippi #murder
2024-01-0419 minTombigbee TalesBaskerville Manor, Poker, and a Murder in Columbus MississippiBaskerville Manor is a gorgeous Italianate antebellum home built as a wedding present and eventually lost in a poker game. Here is a story about the lives of some of the people who once lived in this gorgeous home on the Columbus Spring Pilgrimage in Columbus, MS.
2024-01-0308 minTombigbee TalesDaniel Baldwin - Breaking Racial Rules 1855Daniel Baldwin (future father of a Confederate General) owned a tavern and was an excellent distiller of hard liquor in Columbus. He stood accused of selling alcohol to two enslaved men in 1855 by the state of Mississippi.
2024-01-0207 minTombigbee TalesPorch Talk with Alan AldredgeMy friend Alan from Porch Talk Podcast talks Mississippi musicians, Columbus, and upcoming Porch Fest Music Festival during Pilgrimage this spring!
2023-12-311h 05Tombigbee TalesCornell Sidney Franklin and the William Faulkner ConnectionWilliam Faulkner stole Cornell Sidney Franklin's wife back all the way form Shanghai, China. #knowyourhistory #williamfaulkner #columbusms #mississippi #visitcolumbusms #visitmississippi #oxford
2023-12-3107 minTombigbee TalesInterview with the Cultured BumpkinInterview with the Cultured Bumpkin Podcast Host and Voice Over Actor Jake Philips of Columbus, MS #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi #mississippi #mississippiartists #columbusms #lowndescountyms
2023-12-3049 minTombigbee TalesTwo Murders on the Mississippi Black Belt Prairie near the Tombigbee RiverLeroy Shackelford was murdered by two slaves: Wiley and Dock near Crawford, MS. Aaron, an enslaved man, was murdered by his owner James Paul using a weighted wagon whip. #knowyourhistory #mississippi #visitmississippi #columbusms #mississippigirl #mississippihistory
2023-12-2912 minTombigbee TalesHow the Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation Plans to Profit off the Monroe Crypt ”Restoration”How the Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation and Nancy Capenter Plans to Profit off the Monroe Crypt "Restoration" #cvb #tennesseewilliamshome #visitcolumbusms #visitmississippi #restorationwork #thievesandcrooks
2023-12-2809 minTombigbee Tales1829 Murder for HireGustavus Hendrick was accused of plotting the murder of Col. Thomas Townsend and Alexander Carter while at the home of Silas McBee (Liberty Hall). #columbusms #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi #knowyourhistory #historyisbrutal #murderforhirestory
2023-12-2707 minTombigbee TalesThe Fiery Death of the Klondyke Gold Rush BrokerPeter Stuart Hairston, Crawford native was a wealthy man working in Toronto, Canada on the Toronto Stock Exchange at his death. #murder #arson #fire #ColumbusMS #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi #mississippi
2023-12-2509 minTombigbee TalesThe Murder of the Wealthy Planter’s Son Dancey Blewett in Lowndes County MSDancey Blewett was murdered for messing around with a married woman... #mississippi #visitmississippi #visitcolumbusms #Blewett #mississippigirl
2023-12-2508 minTombigbee TalesA.J. McDowell - The Mayor that Almost Murdered a ConstituentIn 1895 Columbus was still wild and folks went everywhere armed. Even the mayor. #murder #columbusms #tombigbeeriver #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi #mississippi #knowyourhistory
2023-12-2406 minTombigbee TalesThe Quadruple Thompson Family Murder in Brooksville, MS 1865The Thompson family's demise at the hands of their brother and son at the end of the Civil War is one of greed and betrayal. #1865 #mississippi #visitmississippi #brooksville #noxubee
2023-12-2314 minTombigbee TalesAbolitionist John D. DuberryJohn Duberry brought the abolitionist speeches of Charles Sumner and William H. Seward to distribute to enslaved members of Columbus and Lowndes County (formerly Monroe County). Per the state's Hutchinson Code this was an offense punishable by up to 10 years in the penitentiary. #visitcolumbusms #antebellum #visitmississippi #abolitionist #Mississippi #1850
2023-12-2209 minTombigbee TalesRobert Thompson: Reconstruction Era Mississippi Black LegislatorRobert Thompson served as a Lowndes County Mississippi Legislator during Reconstruction and was the leader of the local militia. He was threatened with firing squad, murder, and lynching before he retired from public life and retired to nearby Noxubee County. #mississippi #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi #knowyourhistory #africanamericanhistory #blackhistory #mississippihistory
2023-12-2108 minTombigbee TalesThe City Where Ethics Are Optional For Elected OfficialsAfter a local city councilman has been arrested or connected to four different crimes, why is there no ethics code in place to hold him accountable to his elected office? #columbusms #citycouncil #ethicsviolations #codeofconductforelectedofficials
2023-12-2006 minTombigbee TalesThe Dangerous Duncan BoysOne family responsible for bullying, stabbing, shooting, and murdering multiple people in Lowndes County between 1910-1913. #murder #knowyourhistory #visitcolumbus #murdermonday #visitmississippi #columbusms
2023-12-1908 minTombigbee TalesThe Crooked Judge and the Anonymous LetterJudge Beverly Matthews, a member of the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan framed 14 innocent Black men for running a "theft" ring. #knowyourhistory #columbusms #visitms #visitcolumbus #jimcrow
2023-12-1810 minTombigbee TalesClyde S. Kilby - C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien Pen Pal and EditorClyde Kilby married a Columbus, MS native Martha Harris. They would retire her after his illustrious career in literature and English at Wheaton. He would be the penpal of both C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as well as editor of Tolkien's last book. #columbusms #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi #mississippi #cslewis #jrrtolkien #wheaton
2023-12-1707 minTombigbee TalesGeneral Jacob Hunter Sharp and General Jeptha Vining Harris, Jr. CSA - StatesmenColumbus produced many leaders in the early years. Some would lead in a more positive way than others. General Sharp was an attorney, legislator, and local organizer and leader of the Ku Klux Klan. General Jeptha V. Harris, Jr. would return to focus on his farm and his family. #antebellum #csa #civilwar #visitcolumbus #Visitmississippi #columbusms #knowyourhistory
2023-12-1607 minTombigbee TalesFirebrand Confederate Generals of Columbus - Barksdale and WadeWilliam Barksdale and William Bartee Wade, both residents of Columbus, MS at the start of the Civil War became significant military leaders. One died in battle, one was tossed out a Gilmer Hotel window to his death. #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi #CSA #knowyourhistory #antebellum
2023-12-1510 minTombigbee TalesWilliam E. Baldwin, Brigadier General CSAHow a bookstore accountant from Columbus, MS rose to Brigadier General in the Confederacy. #columbusms #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi #antebellum
2023-12-1408 minTombigbee TalesMad Jack Rabb - Out of Enslavement into Prosperity.Mad Jack Rabb bought his freedom and that of his sister from Alexander Rabb in Columbus, MS. His children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and now great great grandchildren have all been highly successful adults. His great great grandson Christopher Rabb is a highly respected legislator in Pennsylvania. #columbusms #blackhistory #knowyourhistory #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi #mississippi
2023-12-1214 minTombigbee TalesThe Carpet Bagger SheriffHiram Wheeler Lewis was elected Sheriff in Columbus, Mississippi during Reconstruction and considered a Radical Republican. He was run out of town by the Klan in 1875.
#columbusms #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi #carpetbagger #Reconstructionsouth
2023-12-1006 minTombigbee TalesJames Lull - Columbus’ Eclectic ArchitectJames Lull's Greek Revival elements are found in many of his buildings he designed in Columbus: Camellia Place, Riverview, Leigh Crest, Wisteria Place, Amzi Love Home, and others. #antebellum #greekrevival #visitcolumbus #historichometoursofcolumbus #Gothic #MUW #columbuspilgrimage
2023-12-1005 minTombigbee TalesLiberty Hall - Greek Revival Lowndes County HomeLiberty Hall is a Greek Revival Lowndes County Home located in the Southeast corner of Lowndes County. It was moved by mules from its original location in 1922. #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi #Greekrevival #antebellum #historichometours
2023-12-0912 minTombigbee TalesHorace King - African American Master Bridge BuilderHorace King, an enslaved man, was the engineer and builder of the first bridge to span the Tombigbee River. It was side enough for a wagon and team. #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi #tombigbeeriver #mississippihistory #Blackhistory #knowyourhistory.
2023-12-0908 minTombigbee TalesDid Oxen Turn the Frazier House 90 Degrees?Legend has it that the large antebellum house once faced the river and was turned by a team of oxen to face the street. Is that true or is that a tall tale? To find out I did a TON of background research.
#1830s #antebellumhomes #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi #historichometours
2023-12-0714 minTombigbee TalesWilliam Isaac Mitchell and Jim Crow ColumbusThis episode tells the story of yet another obscure internment at Sandfield Cemetery, specifically a formerly enslaved Mississippian named William Isaac Mitchell who developed educational opportunities for the formerly enslaved and their children. He was also crucial in transforming the American Missionary Association school into Union Academy.
2023-12-0615 minTombigbee TalesThe Mad ”Millionaire” MurdererWas the wealthy planter and financier Charles R. Smith insane when he shot E. A. Laurent at the Artesia train depot?
2023-12-0514 minTombigbee TalesFirst African American Senator for Lowndes County, MS - Robert GleedThis episode tells the story of a formerly enslaved Mississippian who rose to prominent status in both politics and business after the Civil War, yet had the American Dream violently stolen from him along with the hope of expanding American democratic ideals. #mississippi #AfricanAmericanHistory #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi
2023-12-0513 minTombigbee TalesColumbus City Councilman’s Latest MugshotCity Councilman Pierre Beard was arrested by the Gordo, Alabama police Friday night for DUI, possession of marijuana (2nd offense), paraphernalia (1st offense), and illegal alcohol. #columbusms
2023-12-0407 minTombigbee TalesThe Christmas Eve Murder at the Corner MarketDid you know there was a murder at the Rosenschweig Arts Center in #columbusms in 1927? Thanks to my fellow researcher Cy Brown for this lead! #murder #mystery #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi
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