Columbia

Columbia, the name of nearly thirty places in the United States, of which the most important are: (1) The capital of South Carolina, at the head of navigation on the Congaree River, 130 miles NNW. of Charleston by rail. The town is regularly built, with several handsome streets, and contains a fine granite state-house ($3,000,000) and other official buildings. It is the seat of a Presbyterian theological seminary, and of the university of South Carolina (1806). Pop. (1891) 15,353.—(2) A borough of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna, which is here crossed by a railway bridge, 80 miles W. of Philadelphia, with several iron-furnaces and rolling-mills, and manufactures of machinery, flour, &c. Population, 10,599.—(3) The capital of Maury county, Tennessee, on the Duck River, 45 miles SSW. of Nashville by rail, with manufactures of ploughs, furniture, and flour. Population, 5370.—(4) The capital of Boone county, Missouri, 24 miles E. of Boonville, with manufactures of flour, tobacco, and woollens. It is the seat of the state university (1840), which is open to both sexes, and has some five hundred students and fifteen professors. Population, 4000.