Working on a landmark. Crew members for Jumanji work on the Parrish Shoes sign on West Street in Keene before filming in November 1994. The sign remains to this day, and was the site of a memorial to the late Robin Williams in August. Michael Moore / Sentinel Staff.
Location of Columbia, Mississippi. Columbia, Mississippi. Columbia is a city in Marion County, Mississippi, which was formed six years before Mississippi was admitted to statehood. Columbia was named for Columbia, South Carolina, from which many of the early settlers had migrated. The population was 6,603 as of the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Marion County.[3]
History of Marion County, Mississippi Marion County has history older than the state of Mississippi. Founded in 1811, six years before Mississippi was established as the 20th state, Marion County was named after General Francis Marion, a Revolutionary War hero known as the âSwamp Fox.â Columbia, which was named after the South Carolina home of its first settlers, John and William Lott, was incorporated as the stateâs fourth municipality in 1819. Columbia served as the temporary state capital from November 1821 until early 1822, when the fifth session of the Mississippi Legislature met there.