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Other Sites of Interest
        •  Springer Opera House – where
         “Ma” Rainey made her first
         appearance on stage                                    • City Mills
        •  City Mills – built by Horace King,
         a free person of color who was
         formerly enslaved
        •  Corporal Eugene Bullard marker
         – inside the Columbus Airport
         terminal; celebrates the world’s
         first black aviator
        •  National Civil War Naval
         Museum – includes the story of
         the U.S. Navy’s integrated ship
         crews during the Civil War             • National Civil War Naval Museum


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