Columbus (Mississippi)

The first home of playwright Tennessee Williams serves as the official welcome center in town. It is designated a National Literary Landmark.

Home to the first Memorial Day (then called Decoration Day) in 1866.

The oldest public college for women in America, founded in 1884 (and coeducational since 1982) . It has several buildings on the National Register of Historic Places.

Noted for its octagonal cupola.

Information available at the Visitor's Center, 300 Main Street +1-662-329-3533. In April several package tours are offered of local historic homes. Walking tours of neighborhoods, candlelight tours of homes and cemetery tours are also offered. Musical presentations and living history exhibits are also showcased throughout town for this yearly event.

Several area homes from the antebellum period are open year round. The Visitor's Center can arrange tours of these homes. Prices vary according to how many and which homes you want to view.

It is one of the most exciting evenings of the year. This October, embark on an escorted bus journey through Columbus' haunted past.

This graveyard tour promises to be a memorable experience for lovers of history and drama, for it is a combination of both. Tales from the Crypt recreates the lives of noted local personalities interred at the historic Friendship Cemetery, site of the Confederate Decoration Day that inspired the poem, "The Blue and the Gray."