Muscogee County GaArchives Photo Place.....Historic Marker: Columbus First Theater April 2006
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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 partnerNOAH
  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
    Historic Columbus Foundation, Inc.
             2002

 Marker located on Lower Broad.        

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