Box Springs

Box Springs is in the Southwest corner of Talbot County, with Baker Creek the county line with Muscogee County, 2 or 3 miles from the East city limits of Columbus. Some early settlers were: Wiley Pope, James & Edith Rogers Parker, John & Elizabeth DuBose King, Richard & Milly Garrett Hollis, Rogers, Fort, Benjamin & Amazon Johnson Emanuel, John W. G. & Lucinda Milner Smith, Joseph E. & Sarah McNeil Biggs, Wiley & Martha Pope, Jacob & Sarah Funderburk, Reason Edge & Nancy Hollis, Archibald Calhoun (Colquhouns), and Wellborn G. Davie.  Benjamin J. King was the first postmaster in 1853, followed by Hezekiah D. Williams in 1855.

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