A military bridge was constructed where the present-day Tombigbee Bridge was later developed in Columbus, Mississippi. His surveyor, Captain Hugh Young, chose a place on the Tombigbee River where high ground approached the river on both sides as the location for a ferry to be used for crossing the river when high water prevented fording the river. In 1817 Jackson ordered a road be built to provide a direct route from Nashville to New Orleans. Īfter the Battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson recognized the urgent need for roads to connect New Orleans to the rest of the country. Indian agent and interpreter for the Choctaw Nation, moved to Plymouth Bluff, where he built a home, established a farm, and transacted Choctaw Agency business. However, the site does not enter the main continuity of United States history until December 1810, when John Pitchlynn, the U.S. The first record of the site of Columbus in Western history is found in the annals of the explorer Hernando de Soto, who is reputed to have crossed the nearby Tombigbee River on his search for El Dorado. History Postcard of steamer American on Tombigbee River at Columbus, c. Columbus is also part of the area of Mississippi called The Golden Triangle, consisting of Columbus, West Point and Starkville, in the counties of Lowndes, Clay and Oktibbeha. Columbus is the principal city of the Columbus Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Columbus-West Point Combined Statistical Area. The population in 2019 was estimated to be 23,573. It is approximately 146 miles (235 km) northeast of Jackson, 92 miles (148 km) north of Meridian, 63 miles (101 km) south of Tupelo, 60 miles (97 km) northwest of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and 120 miles (193 km) west of Birmingham, Alabama. Leslie graduated from Mississippi University for Women with a BS in Theatre.Columbus is a city in and the county seat of Lowndes County, on the eastern border of Mississippi, United States, located primarily east, but also north and northeast of the Tombigbee River, which is also part of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. She was honored to have been selected as one of Mississippi Business Journals Top 40 Under 40. Locally she has served as an Ambassador with the Columbus Lowndes Chamber of Commerce for 14 years, completed the Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Lowndes County Program, former Columbus Lowndes Humane Society Board Member, and is a lifetime member and former Ball Chairman of Columbus Junior Auxiliary. Leslie is also Certified in Risk Management and has recently completed the OSHA 10 training class.

She is a member of the American Staffing Association where she holds her certification as a Certified Staffing Professional. Her branch has been selected by The Commercial Dispatch to be “Among the Best” Staffing agencies since 2009 as well as being selected as a finalist by the Mississippi Business Journal as One of the “Best Places to Work” in Mississippi before being chosen as the Best in the small category in 2013. Leslie Hutchins Kennedy has worked for Qualified Staffing in Sales and Management for over 16 years.

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