Temple Israel (Columbus, Georgia)

Columbus High School (CHS) is a public high school located in Columbus, Georgia, United States. It serves as one of the Muscogee County School District's liberal arts magnet schools. It opened in 1890. In 2018, the school ranked second in the state of Georgia, 105th in the nation, and 21st among magnet schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

Hilton in Columbus, Georgia was built in 1843 for Dr. Lovick Pierce, who bought the land in 1838. It was built as a "comfortable" four-room house on its own city block, with a driveway avenue of cedar trees leading to it from Macon Road.He was a medical doctor in Philadelphia and became a Methodist minister.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The NRHP listing included 6 acres (2.4 ha) with two contributing buildings.Its architecture is described as "Italian Villa" style, which may relate to Italianate architecture. The house was restored in 1936.

Highland Hall, located in MidTown Columbus, Georgia was built in 1857 by the Ellis family and originally sat on a ten-acre lot. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on 1980.

The Aflac Building, located in Columbus, Georgia, was ordered in late November 1974, the groundbreaking ceremony took place January 4, 1975, and the tower was complete and occupied on December 19, 1975. The tower is the tallest building in the U.S. state of Georgia outside of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area, Savannah, and Augusta. It Is located about 1 mile east of downtown. The building is 278 feet (85 m) tall. It serves as the headquarters for Aflac, an insurance company. The tower was to modernize the downtown Columbus area along with the Columbus government center built a year earlier.

The Muscogee County School District (MCSD) is the county government agency which operates the public schools in Muscogee County, Georgia. The district serves as the designated school district all parts of the county, except Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning), for grades K-12. Fort Moore children are zoned to Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools for grades K-8. However high school students attend the public high schools in the respective counties they are located in. Any Fort Moore pupil, however, may attend Muscogee County schools if their parents wish, as per House Bill 224. The district does not give transportation to HB224 transfers.

St. Elmo is a historic residence on the National Register of Historic Places, located in MidTown Columbus, Georgia at 2808 18th Avenue.

Dinglewood House is a National Register of Historic Places listed building located at 1429 Dinglewood St., Columbus, Georgia. Joel Early Hurt built the Italianate house for his wife Frances and daughter Julia in 1858 and spared no expense. Columbus architecture firm Barringer & Morton produced the drawings. The house reflects several architectural styles: it has French windows, Italianate overhanging eaves with decorative brackets, and a Classical Revival-style entrance with Corinthian columns.

The Shannon Hosiery Mill, Inc. was incorporated in Columbus, GA on November 8, 1938. The one story mill sat on a 5 ½ acre lot 1338 Talbotton Ave in the northeastern side of Columbus. The cost of the buildings and the grounds was around $100,000. It produced silk hosiery for the southeast region of the United States. The first president was N.S. Illges, and vice president was J.P. Illges. Other officers included W.T. Cothran as secretary and treasurer and E.C. Alford as assistant secretary. Shannon Hosiery Mill, Inc. targeted the southeast region. By 1955, J Chadbourn Bolles had become the new president of the mill. The mill facility was sold in 1958. The Muscogee Board of Education purchased the Shannon Hosiery Mill property for $250,000. The building was renovated and became a short-term home for the new junior college, Columbus College. By 1980 the mill site was owned by the Muscogee County School District. In 1988, the old mill building was destroyed, but would not be forgotten. In 2008, a historic marker for the mills was placed off Warm Springs Road. According to the historic marker, "more than 20,000 bricks from the mill's old smokestack were salvaged and cleaned by college faculty, staff and students and were used to line the inner arches of the Whitley Clock Tower, built in 1991 in the center of the CSU main campus." Today, Hannan Academy is located on the site where the old mill stood.

The Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia, was founded in 1953. It contains many artifacts on both American art and regional history, displayed in both its permanent collection as well as temporary exhibitions. It is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. Former curator and director, Joseph B. Mahan, Jr., was instrumental in the creation of the Institute for the Study of American Cultures in 1983.

Clubview Heights is a neighborhood located in the Midtown section of Columbus, Georgia.

George Washington Carver High School is a public secondary school in Columbus, Georgia. It served as the high school for black students until the public schools were integrated. A 2009 tax amendment provided funds to rebuild the school, which reopened in 2012.

The Secondary Industrial School in Columbus, Georgia is a historic school built in 1906. It was the first secondary-level industrial/vocational school in the United States: it "has been called the nation's first public-supported, coeducational industrial high school." Located at 1112 29th St., the building was designed by J.W. Golucke & Co. in Beaux Arts style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.It has also been known as S.I.S., as Columbus Junior High, and as Jordan Vocational High. It was a project of Carleton B. Gibson, who became Superintendent of schools in Columbus in 1896.