ettlers established Columbus 200 years ago, which makes it Texas’ oldest surveyed and platted Anglo-American town. Set on a bend of the Colorado River where there was once a Native American village, Columbus has been a center of activity since its early days. Colonists among Stephen F. Austin’s original “Old Three Hundred” established an inn, a mill, and a ferry crossing in 1823, when the town was also a seat of colonial government. These days, Columbus is located at the intersection of
