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Chattahoochee . . . they wouldn’t have major attractions, Columbus has become a MARCH • Junior League Attic Sale imagined the authentic river town and thriving true destination of choice, with more than 3,200 • Thunder in the Valley Air Show regional hub that would one day proudly rooms of accommodation, numerous meeting APRIL • Riverfest Weekend embrace the land – Columbus, Georgia. facilities, and a world of dining opportunities. • Westville Spring SEPTEMBER Festival • Powers’ Crossroad Country • Callaway Gardens Fair and Art Festival It’s no wonder that Columbus plays host to Spring • Columbus-Ft. Benning Celebration Shrine Circus Once Georgia’s last frontier outpost, Columbus, • The Festival at South hundreds of tour groups along with regional, MAY Commons • Andersonville • Plains Peanut Festival now its third-largest city, stands proudly on the state, and national meetings each year. Antiques, Crafts, and Civil OCTOBER War Artifacts Fair • Andersonville Historic Fair cutting-edge frontier of the “New South,” where • Cotton Pickin’ • Cotton Pickin’ Country Fair Country Fair • Tuskegee-Morehouse • Masters Water Ski Football Classic yesterday’s industrial and So come and share our new vision – to a place Tournament • Arts on the River manufacturing base where the past is revered and the future JUNE • Miss Georgia Pageant NOVEMBER • Steeplechase has given way to a anticipated – to Columbus, Georgia, and see JULY • Fountain City Classic • Independence Day • Christmas Made in the South thriving economy what progress has preserved just for you! Celebrations • Thunder on the Hooch DECEMBER • Night of Lights AUGUST • Westville Yuletide Season • Miss Columbus • A Warm Springs Christmas Pageant • Bi-City Christmas Parade • Columbus • Holiday Tour of Homes International Festival • Callaway‘s Fantasy In Lights

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BLACK HERITAGE TRAIL HISTORIC DISTRICT CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERWALK Trace the passion and progress of Columbus’ rich Stroll back to times genteel with a guided tour of Heritage Corner, Navigate the shores of the river on the Chattahoochee Riverwalk. African-American heritage, whose roots run deep in the heart of Columbus’ 26-block Historic District – Georgia’s By foot or on wheels – you’ll skirt the cityscape, examine historic as the Chattahoochee. From a Horace King built largest – where brick cobblestone streets, ancient oaks and century- monuments and markers, and take in the wild beauty bridge to the Liberty Theatre, this self-guided tour, old homes are the order of the day. Five historical buildings, from of the rolling river and native wildlife. This 15- featuring 26 sites of historical and social a trader’s log cabin to mile linear park spans the riverfront from the importance, illuminates the history and development of Columbus’ the home of Dr. John Lake Oliver city marina south to the National African-American community in a Pemberton – whose French Infantry Museum at Fort Benning. profound, new way. Tour guides available wine d’coca became better for groups. known as Coca-Cola – F. D. ROOSEVELT STATE PARK showcase the flavors of Take a splash in President Franklin D. ANDERSONVILLE NATIONAL Chattahoochee Valley life, Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps- HISTORIC SITE spiced with your very own built stone swimming pool, climb Pine Relive the heart-wrenching drama of sample of “lumpy Coke.” Mountain to Dowdell’s Knob – his favorite America’s Civil War at Andersonville – perch for picnicking and reflection – or enjoy where thousands of Union soldiers a leisurely stay at the park’s campground or languished or died. The Andersonville cottages. Scenic vistas abound here in Georgia’s National Historic Site, one of the largest OXBOW MEADOWS ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER largest state park that today includes the 23-mile Pine Confederate military prisons and now Tread lightly amid native flora and fauna at Oxbow Meadows, where Mountain Trail. home to the National Prisoner of nature takes its course. Ramble amongst ponds and vegetation War Museum, includes the Andersonville Civil War where butterfly and bird, turtle and SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE Village and Trebor Plantation. dragonfly – and the occasional snake Step off the gaslit street into or two! – reign supreme. Get hands- the spectacular Edwardian CALLAWAY GARDENS on at the Environmental Learning Grand Lobby of the Springer Get drenched in nature’s Center and experience the region’s Opera House, the State bounty at Callaway, natural history. Ideal for student and Theatre of Georgia and leading world-renowned group tours, bird watching and Southern cultural institution gardens, resort and natural discovery. since 1871. Oscar Wilde, Ma preserve. Trek through Rainey, Lillie Langtry, John miles of nature trails or take LITTLE WHITE HOUSE & WARM Philip Sousa are but a few a leisurely drive through SPRINGS VILLAGE voices from the past that this 14,000 acre golf Commemorate the courage and legacy of President Franklin D. beckon you to today’s world- and beach resort that Roosevelt, stricken with polio in 1921, in his therapeutic quest amid class entertainment on the erupts in spring with the naturally heated mineral waters of Warm Springs. A visit to the Springer’s grand old stage. a riot of azaleas in Little White House, safe haven and “home away from home,” Tours available. bloom. Dance among showcases furnishings, personal automobile, carefully preserved butterflies in North outbuildings and artifacts, and historic video of the President and WESTVILLE America’s largest glass- his contemporaries. An excursion Warp back in time to the mid 19th century at enclosed tropical to Warm Springs Village rewards Westville, Georgia’s working 1850 town. Relive conservatory, brace for heart-stopping the curious and bargain hunter alike history in this village of more than thirty action at the Birds of Prey show, or enjoy with down-home dining, specialties, authentically furnished pre-Civil War buildings spectacular golfing, swimming at the world’s crafts and antiques. come to life with hearth-cooked food, mules largest man-made white sand beach, Masters Water and wagons, and Ski Tournament, lush horticultural center, horseback riding, fishing SOUTH COMMONS SPORTS & period-dressed and hunting – recreation galore! ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX townspeople and Revel in your sport of choice at tradesmen just COCA-COLA SPACE SCIENCE CENTER South Commons Sports & itching to demonstrate their crafts and Fly to the moon, see the heavens as they looked Entertainment Complex. Proud skills – and tell you a tale or two in the when Caesar built his empire, watch a total eclipse home of the 1996 Olympic bargain. of the sun as it happens on the other side of the Women’s Fast-Pitch Softball venue, world. The Coca-Cola Space Science Center’s the Commons features a premiere PINE MOUNTAIN WILD ANIMAL SAFARI learning center, multimedia planetarium, and 8-field softball complex and Was that Tarzan calling!? You can almost observatory make star gazing almost science fiction. Olympic Legacy stadium, historic hear the magic of distant tribal drumbeats Golden Park baseball stadium, as the zebras graze and . . . hey, that’s a COLUMBUS MUSEUM Columbus Civic Center, and the giraffe in my window! Don’t be surprised at the variety and curiosity Marvel at ever-changing venues of art and artifacts at A.J. McClung Memorial Stadium, of wild and exotic beasts from every one of the largest art museums in the Southeast. Noted for its battleground for Tuskegee-Morehouse and the Fountain City Classic, continent as you cruise through this concentration on American art and history of the Chattahoochee two of the longest running football rivalries in the region. 500-acre safari tour, where you can Valley, the collection features over 14,000 pieces in permanent and see, touch, feed – and maybe traveling exhibition galleries of even talk! – to the animals. fine and decorative art, a regional history gallery, and NATIONAL INFANTRY hands-on discovery gallery for MUSEUM children – of all ages! Examine poignant art and artifacts of war in the HOLLYWOOD CONNECTION ongoing defense of our Play hard at Hollywood nation, from George Connection, Georgia’s largest Washington’s apprenticeship in the indoor family entertainment French and Indian War – which set the center, complete with 10 movie stage for the American Revolution theaters, video arcade, plus two centuries of the Infantry’s carousel, electric train, mini-golf course, bumper cars and roller preservation of freedom. The skating rink. From 5 to 85, what more could a kid ask? National Infantry Museum at Ft. Benning, “Home of the CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF Infantry,” houses one of the most Polish the clubs and take your pick from golf outings that are nothing significant collections of military artifacts short of spectacular. Voted among the top 25 public courses in the in existence. country, Bull Creek Golf Course boasts one of the finest courses to COLUMBUS CIVIC CENTER be found. Indulge the naturalist at Oxbow Creek Golf Course, or Sit back and enjoy the show, or the game, at the 10,000 seat PORT COLUMBUS NATIONAL CIVIL WAR NAVAL MUSEUM revel in the magnificent greens and vistas at one of Callaway’s four Columbus Civic Center, home to two professional sports franchises Hang on for your life . . . it’s “Damn the torpedoes, full speed championship courses. – the Southern Professional Hockey League and the National ahead!” at this one-of-a-kind Basketball Development League – and host to noted sporting and Civil War naval operations entertainment events from Alabama to the Original Harlem museum featuring Globetrotters to Disney on Ice. Check for ticket availability. Confederate ironclad CSS Jackson, reconstructed JIMMY CARTER NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE Confederate Naval Shipyard, Follow the makings of a President at the Jimmy and the largest collection of Carter National Historic Site in Plains, home of Civil War naval artifacts and President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn. fighting ships in the world. Chart the course of President Carter’s life Survive a surprise Union attack from peanut farm to the White House with aboard the reconstructed USS an excursion through the town and Depot, Albemarle and you can which now houses the 1976 Presidential say…“you were there!” Campaign museum, boyhood home and Visitors Center. Guided tours available. RIVERCENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS PROVIDENCE CANYON STATE PARK Get wowed – from the Temptations to the Ten Tenors – at RiverCenter Breathe in the grandeur of Georgia’s “Little Grand for the Performing Arts, home to Columbus State University Schwob Canyon” at Providence Canyon State Park. The result School of Music and a variety of nonprofit arts organizations. In of erosion due to poor farming practices in the 1800s is now an addition to an undulating chasm of color and exceptional annual habitat to several species of program of events, rare wildflowers, including the RiverCenter books native Plumleaf Azalea. View from many nationally and the rim trail or don your backpack internationally and camp overnight in the famous performers, backcountry. Interpretive Center, check online or at picnic shelters, and campsites the box office for available. ticket availability.