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Columbia Military Academy
The campus of Columbia Military Academy was built as an arsenal for the US Army in 1891 and closed after the Spanish–American War. The arsenal was declared surplus property in 1901 and in 1904 the land was formally turned over to the Columbia Military Academy. CMA opened for classes on August 28, 1905. The Great Depression was a hard time for all private schools and CMA was no exception. Enrollment dropped to less than two hundred cadets on a regular basis and the academy struggled to stay open. In 1931, however, a new Operating Board led by C.A. Ragsdale and William O. Batts was created and CMA's situation improved under their leadership in the subsequent years. CMA was rated as an Honor School by the Department of the Army in 1935, a distinction it retained until 1975. The JROTC program, added in 1918, and the ROTC program, added in 1947, were inspected annually by active-duty Army officers and active Army officers and NCO's were assigned to the school as instructors. When Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia, Tennessee
Columbia is a city in and the county seat of Maury County, Tennessee. The population was 41,690 as of the 2020 United States census. Columbia is included in the Nashville metropolitan area. The self-proclaimed "mule capital of the world," Columbia annually celebrates the city-designated Mule Day each April. Columbia and Maury County are acknowledged as the "Antebellum Homes Capital of Tennessee"; the county has more Antebellum architecture, antebellum houses than any other county in the state. The city is home to one of the last two surviving residences of James K. Polk, James Knox Polk, the 11th President of the United States; the other is the White House. History A year after the organization of Maury County, Tennessee, Maury County in 1807, Columbia was laid out in 1808 and lots were sold. The original town, on the south bank of the Duck River (Tennessee), Duck River, consisted of four blocks. The town was incorporated in 1817. Columbia was the site of Jackson College (Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
