Columbus' First Theater - Muscogee Co., GA
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Columbus' First Theater historic marker located at 828 Broadway, Columbus, GA.
Waymark Code: WM3ZNV
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 06/12/2008
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Columbus' First Theater
A pioneer theatrical entrepreneur, Sol Smith, 1801-1869, built many theaters in the Deep South, including New Orleans and Mobile and the first permanent theater west of the Mississippi in St. Louis, a city that he and partner Noah Ludlow dominated. Smith came to Columbus in 1831 to a primitive log structure in the 800 block of Broadway, which builder Asa Bates had completed in one week. "Pizzaro" was his company's first production there. Later, Smith toured Georgia's theater circuit accompanied by friend Mirabeau B. Lamar, founding editor of the Columbus Enquirer and later second president of the Republic of Texas.
Erected by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Historic Columbus Foundation, Inc., 2002