Notable Residents
- Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995) - inventor, actor, rodeo champion, internationally-known artist/sculptor who lived in Columbia 1935-1937
- Jeff Bates - American country music artist
- Reverend John Ford - pioneering Methodist minister and early political leader
- Jim Dunaway NFL Player For the Buffalo Bills and the Miami Dolphins
- Gerry E. Hinton (1930–2000) - former member of the Louisiana State Senate and the Slidell, Louisiana, City Council
- Claudis James - NFL player
- General Benjamin Lee - military leader and early political figure
- Sylvester Magee - reportedly the last living American slave, died here in 1971
- Joseph T. "Joe" Owens - NFL player
- Eddie Payton - NFL player
- Walter Payton - NFL player
- Hugh L. White - former Columbia mayor and two term Governor of Mississippi
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“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
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