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Columbia is a U.S. city in and the county chair of Marion County, Mississippi, which was formed six years in the past Mississippi was admitted to statehood. Columbia was named for Columbia, South Carolina, from which many of the early settlers had migrated. The population was 6,582 as of the 2010 census.

Columbia is the county seat of Marion County, Mississippi. Marion County was created out of Amite County in 1811, encompassing the southwest quarter of the current welcome of Mississippi. Before statehood in 1816, there were three territorial census/poll tax records taken of what was deemed Marion County at the time. These records tune that during 1813, several Lott men arrived and settled upon the Pearl River in what is now Columbia. In 1813, William Lott was the largest slave holder close present-day Columbia, owning 28 slaves. There were five men, who decided south of present-day Columbia upon 2,789 acres of land with 65 slaves. North of present-day Columbia, on what was the earliest try at a town, was Timothy Terrell on 3,151 acres in imitation of 32 slaves.

The land upon which the current City of Columbia resides was first purchased for cash upon April 18, 1820, by William Lott and John Lott. This house is Township 3 East, Range 18 West, Section 5 (640 acres), which is the middle of the City of Columbia today. Other in the future patent holders of Columbia put in James Phillips, Jr., and John Cooper (1825), in Section 4 adjacent to John and William Lott.