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Columbia, Tennessee

Columbia is a city in and the county seat[5] of Maury County, Tennessee. The population was 41,690 as of the 2020 United States census.[6] Columbia is included in the Nashville metropolitan area.

Columbia, Tennessee

United States

Tennessee

Maury

Chaz Molder

33.79 sq mi (87.52 km2)

33.77 sq mi (87.45 km2)

0.03 sq mi (0.07 km2)

643 ft (196 m)

41,690

1,234.71/sq mi (476.72/km2)

UTC-6 (Central (CST))

UTC-5 (CDT)

38401-38402

931

47-16540[3]

1269483[4]

columbiatn.com

The self-proclaimed "mule capital of the world," Columbia celebrates the city-designated Mule Day each April. Columbia and Maury County are acknowledged as the "Antebellum Homes Capital of Tennessee"; the county has more antebellum houses than any other county in the state. The city is home to one of the last two surviving residences of James Knox Polk, the 11th President of the United States; the other is the White House.

Education[edit]

The city is served by Maury County Public Schools. Private schools include Agathos Classical School, Zion Christian Academy and Columbia Academy. The city is home to the main campus of Columbia State Community College, a community college serving nine counties in southern Middle Tennessee.

architect

James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr.

Miss Tennessee USA 2000, Miss USA 2000

Lynnette Cole

opera singer

Andrew Frierson

blues musician

Cecil Gant

civil rights movement

Lyman T. Johnson

professional football player

Jim Kelly

professional baseball player

Red Lucas

auto racer, father of Sterling Marlin

Coo Coo Marlin

auto racer

Steadman Marlin

auto racer, back-to-back Daytona 500 winner in 1994 and 1995[28]

Sterling Marlin

NFL offensive guard and Super Bowl LI and LIII champion with the New England Patriots

Shaq Mason

first female line officer to hold the rank of rear admiral in the U.S. Navy

Fran McKee

pioneering Black actor

Irvin C. Miller

radio and television sportscaster

Lindsey Nelson

Christian vocalist

David Phelps

Governor, Congressman, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and 11th President of the United States

James K. Polk

country music singer

Shane Profitt

playwright and librettist

Sandra Seaton

country music singer

Natalie Stovall

country music singer

Cowboy Troy

professional baseball player

Dan Uggla

former MLB pitcher for the San Francisco Giants.

William Van Landingham

dentist and actress

Mary Jane Watkins

former Nashville mayor and supporter of civil rights movement, architect

Ben West

United States Navy sailor, recipient of Medal of Honor for actions during Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II

John Harlan Willis

American poet

Merrill Moore

Confederate Civil war soldier and author

Samuel R. Watkins

Cobb, Charles E. Jr. (2016). This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How guns made the Civil Rights Movement Possible. Durham and London: Duke University Press. p. 56.  978-0-8223-6123-7.

ISBN

Robert W. Ikard, No More Social Lynchings, Hillsboro Press, 1997

Humanities, March/ April 2004. Volume 2, Number 2. February 20, 2012.

Janis Johnson. "A Tense Time in Tennessee"

Gilbert King, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, New York: HarperCollins, 2012

Gail W. O'Brien, The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

The Bridge Party, East End Press, 2016.

Sandra Seaton

City of Columbia

City charter

Columbia Daily Herald

. Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.

"Columbia, a city and the county-seat of Maury county, Tennessee, U.S.A." 

. New International Encyclopedia. 1905.

"Columbia. A city and county-seat of Maury County, Tenn." 

35°36′54″N 87°02′40″W / 35.615022°N 87.044464°W / 35.615022; -87.044464