Columbus’s Oldest Businesses Still Open: 10 That Have Lasted 75+ Years

Columbus’s Oldest Businesses Still Open: 10 That Have Lasted 75+ Years

The historic Springer Opera House in downtown Columbus, Georgia, opened in 1871 and stands as one of the city’s oldest surviving cultural institutions. Some Columbus businesses have been around longer than the automobiles, shopping centers and neighborhoods that now surround them. A handful date back to the 1800s, when cotton mills powered the local economy and the Chattahoochee River carried goods between communities. Others survived the Great …