Golf in Columbus

Columbus is the Lowndes County seat on the Tombigbee River in east Mississippi, home to Mississippi University for Women — MUW — the first state-supported women's college in the nation. Columbus's antebellum heritage is preserved in dozens of historic homes along Main Street, and the annual Columbus Spring Pilgrimage celebrates this architectural legacy. The Tombigbee Waterway navigation project transformed the river into a commercial shipping channel, adding industrial infrastructure to a community whose identity combines historic preservation with the practical economy of agriculture and manufacturing. The city's diverse economy of manufacturing, healthcare, higher education, and military support reflects the economic breadth that has sustained Columbus's standing as northeast Mississippi's second city.