Area Information     

Welcome to the Golden Triangle

Columbus, MS, Starkville, MS, West Point, MS and the surrounding areas. 
Historic Columbus has a style and sense of place that is unique. Visitors can tour some of the South’s most beautiful historic homes, browse antique and specialty shops, dine in both elegant an casual restaurants, while settling into excellent hotel rooms and charming bed and breakfast inns.
Featuring some of the South’s grandest architecture, Columbus and Lowndes County offer an impressive variety of housing options—historic mansions, downtown apartments, luxury golf-course homes, riverfront and lakeside estates, quaint farms, new developments and assisted living retirement complexes.
Columbus, which escaped much of the Civil War destruction that devastated many of the Southern cities, has 600-plus structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places and more than 100 antebellum homes gracing the community. In addition there are numerous smaller Victorian charmers scattered throughout the town.
Our area offers the ease, security and stability of small town living with convenient proximity to larger metropolitan areas such as Birmingham, AL, Memphis, TN, Atlanta, GA, Jackson, MS and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
 
Located on the Tenn-Tom Waterway, the area is an outdoor enthusiasts’ paradise with outstanding opportunities for camping, picnicking, boating, fishing, and hunting. The 44,000 acres of surface water on the Tenn-Tom are comprised of 10 lock and dams creating 10 large lakes that make up the Tenn-Tom Waterway. The larger of the 10 lakes, Columbus Lake, covers almost 9,000 acres and is more than 22 miles long. The 234 mile Waterway connects the Gulf of Mexico to the Tennessee River. Important predatory game fish are the largemouth bass, spotted bass, hybrid striped bass, walleye, sauger, and crappie. Prey species include shad, minnows, silversides, sunfish, and darters. In addition, channel, blue, and flathead catfish, chain pickerel, bowfin, buffalo, and redhorse can be found in the United States.
There are churches of many denominations, public library, fine arts center, and ample health and medical services. In May 2005, Baptist Memorial Hospital opened a $34 million, 5 floor tower with 151 rooms. The city also features a regional airport with daily Delta connections.

 

Columbus, MS, Located in the heart of Columbus is the Mississippi University for Women. Known for its top-notch nursing and teaching schools and more recently for its culinary arts department, MUW is recognized nationally as one of the best education bargains in the country. Columbus is also home to Columbus Air Force Base, turning out nearly one-third of our nation’s best-trained pilots. With more than 3,000 military and civilian employees, the base has a local economic impact of almost $250,000,000 annually. Columbus is proud of the role it plays in our nation’s defense and embraces the men an women of CAFB, many of whom return to Columbus to retire. 
 
Starkville, MS, the home of Mississippi State University and located on the Western edge of the Golden Triangle, has been a college town for more than a century. Boasting an enrollment of more than 16,000 students, 700 faculty members, and an alumni family of over 82,000. Mississippi State University is the largest university in the State. MSU serves up exciting Southeastern Conference sports action with their championship football, basketball, and baseball teams. The university is also a national leader in veterinary medicine, agricultural research and engineering.
 
 
West Point, MS located on the northern apex of the “Golden Triangle”, is situated on the fertile northeast “black prairie” region of the state. The unusually fertile Black Belt (or Prairies) soil is produced by the weathering of an exposed limestone base known as the Selma Chalk, the remnant of an ancient ocean floor. Catfish production in Mississippi, exclusive of the Delta, is concentrated in the Black Belt, mainly in Noxubee, Lowndes and Kemper counties, which are in the heart of the Black Belt. Also predominant in the area are some of the largest and finest row crop farms and cattle ranches in the state.