Historical Marker
Columbia
Columbia, Caldwell County · Louisiana
Erected 2018
The land here was first cleared in 1827 by Daniel Humphries, and a store followed a few years later. In February 1864 Federal and Confederate troops fought a skirmish in the town. The harbor was a busy port for cotton, shipped by steamboat and packet boat until the railroad arrived. Columbia, the seat of Caldwell Parish, counted 1,021 residents in 1960, its peak, and 277 in 2020, so a town that once lived by the river now has fewer than three hundred people.
Where it stands
32.10632, -92.07525 · Directions
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