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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C0L_harriett-cornwell-tourist-home_Columbia-SC.html
This home's first owner was John R. Cornwell, an African American business man and civic leader who owned a successful barber shop on Main St. After his death, Cornwell's wife Hattie and daughters Geneva Scott and Harriett Cornwell lived here. Fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C0H_beth-shalom-cemetery_Columbia-SC.html
In 1883 members of Columbia's Jewish community founded the Hebrew Cemetery Society of Columbia as an alternative to the Hebrew Benevolent Society's cemetery, which had been established in 1822. The organization purchased a 4-acre tract bounded by …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BRG_broad-river_Columbia-SC.html
Early boundary between Cherokee and Catawba Indians. Name first applied about 1745. Faust's Ford, 2 mi. above, used in Revolution. First bridge opened 1829, burned 1865 to delay Sherman's army which crossed on pontoon bridges downstream. Bridge re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25G1_burning-of-columbia_Columbia-SC.html
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Due to Columbia's strategic value, capture of the city was an objective of the Union Army during the Carolina's Campaign of 1865. By Feb. 15 Union forces had moved to within 4 miles of the city and met opposition from Confederate skirmis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25G0_congaree-vista_Columbia-SC.html
Historically a residential, light industrial, mercantile and transportation district, the Congaree Vista is bounded by the Congaree River to the west and Assembly Street to the east. To its north lies Arsenal Hill, while the Olympia Mill community…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21Z5_african-american-heroes-of-the-371st-regiment_Columbia-SC.html
In tribute & honor to the gallant African American heroes of of the 371st Infantry Regiment 93rd Division "Colored" of World War I.
They were South Carolinians sent into the bloody trenches of World War I. These brave black soldiers survived on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KEV_seaboard-air-line-railway-station-1_Columbia-SC.html
Camden and Cheraw will "in effect become suburbs of this city... through the construction of the new Seaboard Rail Line. The State May 10, 1900.
The Blue Marlin occupies the former Seaboard Air Line Railway Station, which served passengers in Col…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KEU_seaboard-air-line-railway-station-2_Columbia-SC.html
The new Seaboard Railway Station "will be a daisy."The State editorial, May 31, 1904
Completed in early summer 1904, the Seaboard Air-Line Railway Station (now the Blue Marlin) was built by J.P. Pettijohn and Co. of Lynchburg, Va. for $35,000, an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DPK_a-s-salley-house_Columbia-SC.html
(side 1)Alexander Samuel Salley 1871-1961), the historian described as a "walking encyclopedia" of S.C. history, lived here from 1910 until his death. Salley, born in Orangeburg County, was secretary of the S.C. Historical Society in Charleston 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ADW_liberty-bell-reproduction_Columbia-SC.html
Dedicated to you, a free citizen in a free landThis reproduction of the Liberty Bell was presented to the people ofSouth Carolinaby direction ofThe Honorable John W. SnyderSecretary of the Treasuryas the inspirational symbol of theUnited States Sa…