Columbus’ original Post Office was originally built in 1910 and moved to its current location on Main Street in 1938. Why, you might ask, is the building put in the middle of the street? There is actually a simple explanation to that dog-leg. When Columbus was organized as a town in Mississippi, that dog-leg marked the southern limits of the town. The block at the south end of Market Street downtown was outside of the original town limits and was in the later Barry’s Addition. The survey for Barry’s Addition did not line up with the existing street grid resulting in the dog-leg we find today at the end of Market Street.
