Muscogee County GaArchives Photo Place.....Historic Marker: Early Theatres April 2006
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        Early Theatres

  The Springer Opera House, 1871, was the sixth
    legitimate theater in downtown Columbus.
 
  Previous were the SOL SMITH, Crawford street,
 Lyceum, Concert Hall and Temperance Hall. The 
    early theatrical circuit followed the Old 
  Federal Road through Columbus, as did many
 well known personalities like English novelist
   WILLIAM MAKEPEACR THACKERAY and Swedish
 violinist OLE BULL. During an 1850 visit here
    by the Canning Company, its manager
accidentally wounded JOHN WILKES BOOTH, an 
  actor more notorious fos assassinating
President ABRAHAM LINCOLN at Washington' Ford
   Theater than praised for his histrionics.


         
          Erected by the 
    Historic Chattahoochee Commission
             and
    Historic Columbus Foundation, Inc.
             2002

 Marker located on Lower Broad.        

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