Columbus Enquirer

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Mirabeau B. Lamar established the Columbus Enquirer as a four-page weekly newspaper in 1828, the same year the Georgia legislature incorporated the city of Columbus. The issue seen here dates from May of that year. 

Courtesy of Digital Library of Georgia.

Columbus Enquirer

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