Visit Dinglewood Historic District: 2025 Dinglewood Historic District, Columbus Travel Guide

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Infantry Museum at Ft Benning - closed Monday's - details the history of the US Infantry and Ft Benning #georgia

National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center

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You can spend time exploring the galleries in National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center in Columbus. While in this family-friendly area, find time to visit its shops.

RiverCenter for the Performing Arts

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Enjoy a show at RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, a theater with a story to tell in Columbus. Experience the entertainment venues and theater scene in this walkable area.

Peachtree Mall

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During your trip to Columbus, you can do some window-shopping at Peachtree Mall. Amble around this family-friendly area's riverfront or experience its entertainment venues.

Springer Opera House

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Enjoy a show at Springer Opera House, a theater with a story to tell in Columbus. Experience the entertainment venues and theater scene in this walkable area.

Columbus State University

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Walk around the campus at Columbus State University during your stay in Columbus. While in this family-friendly area, find time to visit its shops.

Columbus Georgia Convention & Trade Center

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Learn about the events happening at Columbus Georgia Convention & Trade Center during your trip to Columbus. Experience the entertainment venues and theater scene in this walkable area.

Other neighborhoods around Dinglewood Historic District

The Wynn House was built in 1839 when the city of Columbus was 11 years old. Greek Revival in style, the house has doric columns on three sides and is topped with a cupolo. Originally named “Oakview,” the house was built by Colonel William Wynn, for whom the Wynnton area of Columbus is named.

In 1852 Henry Hurt purchased the home from Colonel Wynn, but sold it in 1855 having never lived in it. The next owner, Mr. Hines Holt, was a prominent Georgia congressman and attorney. During the Civil War, his ownership saved the home from the Union Army captain sent to burn the homes in this area. The home remained in the Holt family for 50 years.

In 1905, Mr. J. T.

Wynns Hill Overlook

If you're spending some time in Wynns Hill Overlook, Columbus Museum and Bradley Museum are top sights worth seeing.

"St. Elmo", one of the most exquisite examples of the classic houses in America, stands in view of this point, it was built on the old Stagecoach Road by Colonel Seaborn Jones, for his wife, Mary Howard Jones. Completed in 1833, it was originally called "El Dorado." Here, Augusta Jane Evans visited her aunt and found inspiration for her celebrated novel "St. Elmo."

As a member of Governor Troup's staff, Seaborn Jones came to the site of Columbus with LaFayette in 1825. Lawyer, painter, solicitor-general of the Ocmulgee Circuit

Weracoba-St. Elmo Historic District

If you're looking for some top things to see and do in Weracoba-St. Elmo Historic District and surrounding area, you can visit Columbus Museum and Springer Opera House.

Peacock Woods-Diamond Circle Historic District

While Peacock Woods-Diamond Circle Historic District isn't home to many top sights, Columbus Museum and Springer Opera House are some notable places to visit nearby.

Wynnton Village Historic District

Though Wynnton Village Historic District might not have many top sights, you can venture to the surrounding area to see attractions like Columbus Museum and Springer Opera House.

The family of author Carson McCullers moved to this house in 1927. Here Lula Carson Smith spent her formative years 10-17 and here she began to write, putting on shows in the two sitting rooms, using the sliding doors as curtains and drafting brother Lamar and sister Rita as actors. Shows grew into plays, stories and novels. She left to study writing in New York in 1934. When a teacher told her that the best stories can be found in one's own back yard, her "green arcade" of trees drew her home again. In the summer of 1935 she met James Reeves McCullers, Jr., whom she married in the garden here in Sept., 1937. They moved to North Carolina where the young author completed her first novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. During World War II, with Reeves overseas, Carson lived in New York but often returned home to work and rest. She liked to sit in the kitchen, absorbing its warmth, the aroma of food cooking and the conversation of the cook. In her front bedroom she kept her piano and the typewriter where she worked on her novel, and later prize winning-play, The Member of the Wedding. After the death of her father in 1944, Carson and her mother made their home in Nyack, N.Y.

MidTown

While visiting MidTown, you might make a stop by sights like Columbus Museum and Smith-McCullers House.

East Highlands

East Highlands might not have many top sights, but Columbus Museum and Springer Opera House are two attractions nearby that you can check out.

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