Columbus, IN. Online Offers. Columbus ( /kÉlÊmbÉs/) is a city in and the county seat of Bartholomew County, Indiana, United States. The population was 44,061 at the 2010 census, and the current mayor is Fred Armstrong.
In 1951, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began construction of the New Orleans Mississippi River Floodwall under the Dumaine Street Wharf. Between 1973 and 1992, 15 major sections were built at a cost of $30 million.
Boston's Great Molasses Flood of 1919. On January 15, 1919, Boston suffered one of historyâs strangest disasters: a devastating flood of molasses. The âGreat Molasses Floodâ tore through the city's North End and deposited so much gooey residue that locals claimed they could still smell the molasses on warm days decades later.