By the 1870s the area experienced an industrial boom. The tan yard site eventually became the Columbus Manufacturing Co. In the 1830s, a man by the name of Goode “had his tan yard at the intersection of Franklin and Military Streets.” That would be the present-day intersection of Third Street North and Second Avenue North or the same location where the 1849 Keeler map of Columbus shows a Tan Yard.Īs Columbus grew during the mid to late 1800s, the Burns Bottom area became a site for industrial development. The 1822 minutes of the Trustees of Franklin Academy, which was the first governing body of Columbus, mention that “Bonn and Tinsley” were operating a tan yard. By 1819 the Tombigbee River ferry was in operation at that site on the northwest corner of the new Town of Columbus, Alabama. It is apparent that by 1823 there was a hide tanning business operating in the area of the present day Farmers Market and soccer complex.Įven earlier accounts reflect that just below the mouth of Moore’s Creek was the favored high water crossing of the Tombigbee by the Choctaws during the 1700s and early 1800s and is one of the likely locations for Hernando de Soto to have crossed the Tombigbee River in December 1540. Second Avenue North going west from the YMCA is the original Military Road and led to its 1817 Tombigbee River ferry location. The original United States Survey of 1823, which includes Columbus, calls Moore’s Creek the “Tan Yard Branch” and shows a farm or improved area south of the creek about where the soccer complex is now located. What is now the Hitch Lot Farmers Market and the adjoining soccer complex in Burns Bottom was the location of the earliest known industrial site in Columbus. That area’s roots go back to the founding of Columbus and the neighborhood is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is one of the oldest and most historic neighborhoods in Columbus. The neighborhood is now commonly called Burns Bottom but in the past has also been known as Factory Hill and Frog Bottom.
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