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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIPY_cemetery-of-the-columbia-hebrew-benevolent-society_Columbia-SC.html
In this cemetery, 2½ blocks south, on Gadsden Street, are buried many distinguished Jewish citizens, including two mayors of Columbia: Mordecai Hendricks DeLeon (1791-1849) and Henry Lyons (1805-1858). The Benevolent Society was organized in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIPA_wilson-boyhood-house_Columbia-SC.html
[ United States Emblem ]Woodrow Wilson World War President Lived here in the home of His parents Dr. and Mrs. Jos. Ruggles Wilson 1871- 1874 Erected as a memorial by the South Carolina Department of the American Legion Auxiliary December 28, 192…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIOV_james-m-hinton-house_Columbia-SC.html
(Front text) This is the site of the home of James Miles Hinton (1891-1970), businessman, civil rights pioneer, and minister. Hinton moved to Columbia in 1939 and was elected president of the Columbia branch of the National Association for the Adv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIOO_bethel-a-m-e-church_Columbia-SC.html
(Front text) This church, founded in 1866, was one of the first separate African-American congregations established in Columbia after the Civil War. It met in buildings on Wayne St., at Lincoln & Hampton Sts., and at Sumter & Hampton Sts. before a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMION_ebenezer-lutheran-church_Columbia-SC.html
First Lutheran congregation in Columbia. Church dedicated in this square in 1830 was burned by Union troops in 1865. It was rebuilt 1870, partly through aid of northern Lutherans, and used for Sunday School after present church was completed in 1931.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMINU_site-of-columbia-high-school_Columbia-SC.html
Described as "Collegiate Italian Renaissance" in style, this school was designed by J. Carroll Johnson, of Urquhart and Johnson, in Columbia. The cornerstone was laid in 1915 with Gov. Richard I. Manning as a featured speaker. Final classes were h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMINT_site-of-columbia-female-academy_Columbia-SC.html
Authorized by legislature 1792, the Columbia Female Academy was located here from about 1820 to 1883, when this property was leased to Columbia Public School Commissioners, two of whom still represent the Academy Board. The remodeled academy becam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMINB_old-state-fair-grounds_Columbia-SC.html
This square is part of the tract where state fairs were held 1856-61, 1869-1903. The buildings, used 1861-65 for Confederate barracks and hospital, as well as nitre and mining bureau in charge of Joseph LeConte and James Woodrow, were burned by Un…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMINA_original-site-of-winthrop-college_Columbia-SC.html
In 1886, chiefly through the efforts of D. B. Johnson, first superintendent of Columbia public schools, Winthrop Training School, later Winthrop College, was started here in a small brick building which had been the chapel of Columbia Theological …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIN8_wilson-house_Columbia-SC.html
Built by 1872, this house was the boyhood home of Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), twenty-eighth President of the United States (1913-21). It was constructed by his parents, the Reverend Joseph Ruggles Wilson and Jessie Woodrow Wilson, when they lived …