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Fort Benning South is a former census-designated place [2] (CDP) in Chattahoochee County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Columbus, Georgia - Alabama metropolitan statistical area . The population was 11,737 at last official census (2000).
The crew of a 37 mm gun M3 anti-tank gun, in training at Fort Benning, Georgia, April 1942. During World War II Fort Benning had 197,159 acres (79,787 ha) with billeting space for 3,970 officers and 94,873 enlisted persons. Among many other units, Fort Benning was the home of the 555th Parachute Infantry Company, whose training began in ...
Chattahoochee County, also known as Cusseta-Chattahoochee County, [1] is a county located on the western border in central Georgia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,565. [2]
In late 1918, the U.S. Army established a new camp for the Infantry School of Arms south of Columbus on the Bussey Plantation. The camp was named in honor of Henry Lewis Benning, a Columbus native who served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War and later as a justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. The Army created a rudimentary ...
The Columbus metropolitan area is a component of the Columbus-Auburn-Opelika (GA-AL) combined statistical area, a trading and marketing region. It is split between the eastern time zone , the time zone of the Georgia metropolitan counties, and central time zone , the time zone of Russell County, Alabama .
Fort Benning was redesignated as Fort Moore during the ceremony. 05/11/2023. ... Benning was an early leader in the secession movement, believing the South could not otherwise preserve slavery, in ...
Fort Benning — 8th Division Road Access Point: Interchange: 15.9: 25.6: SR 26 east – Buena Vista, Camp Darby, Andersonville National Historic Site: At-grade intersection; east end of freeway; western terminus of SR 26: Cusseta: Broad Street: Former SR 520 Bus. east: 17.4: 28.0: US 27 south / SR 1 south – Lumpkin, Westville, River Bend Park
The Columbus–Auburn–Opelika, GA–AL Combined Statistical Area [1] is a trading and marketing area made up of six counties in Georgia and three in Alabama. The statistical area includes two metropolitan areas : the Columbus metropolitan area and the Auburn–Opelika metropolitan area .