The Columbus regional office of Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, P.C.is located in the historic district of downtown Columbus, Georgia on 2nd Avenue near the intersection of 15th Street.  Columbus competes with Augusta, Georgia to be the second largest city in the state, and is home to to Fort Benning, one of the largest military installations in the United States.  Columbus is also home to various other major businesses and industries, such as Synovus financial services holding company, Tom's Foods, and Fortune Five-Hundred's Aflac.  Columbus is located on the Chattahoochee River on Georgia's western most border with Alabama and as such, has served as a major hub in the industrial and agricultural southeast.  Columbus has an ever increasing population of over 200,000 residents.