Bringing Historic Markers to Life
Short cinematic films that bring the historic markers of Columbus, Georgia to life — each marker paired with a dramatized look at the moment it commemorates, grounded in sourced history.
Tap a pin to open its marker.
The Markers
Ancient Fisheries
Phenix City, Alabama
Long before the mills and the steamboats, the shoals of the Chattahoochee fed a people — until they were driven west.
Columbus Steamboat Wharf
Columbus, Georgia
For 111 years the river was the city's front door — until war set an ironclad adrift and burning, and the steamboats slowly went quiet.
Freedom Day
Columbus, Georgia
April 16, 1865 — the day the enslaved people of Columbus, Georgia woke as slaves and went to sleep free.
George Parker Swift I
Columbus, Georgia
A young man from Massachusetts, a cotton empire on the Chattahoochee, a city burned in the Civil War — and built again.
Six Indians Hanged
Phenix City, Alabama
Near this spot in 1836, six Creek and Yuchi men were hanged — the end of a last, doomed uprising on the Chattahoochee.