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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM116U_sidney-park-c-m-e-church_Columbia-SC.html
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Sidney Park C.M.E. Church was founded in 1886 and has been at this site since 1889. It grew out of a dispute among members of Bethel A.M.E. Church, who left that congregation and applied to join the Colored Methodist Episcopal (now Chr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM116S_maxcy-gregg-park_Columbia-SC.html
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This city park, established in 1911, was named for Confederate General Maxcy Gregg (1814-1862). It was one of several parks in Columbia proposed by landscape architect Harlan P. Kelsey of Boston, whose 1905 plan was commissioned by the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1141_killian-road-baptist-church-cemetery-confederate-soldiers-monument_Columbia-SC.html
A partial list of soldiers enlisted from this community 1861 ~ 1865 Confederate States of America
Wess Abbott; W. B. Cooper; Wess Cooper; Elihu Davis; Thos. Dent; Robt. Fann; R.W. Fann; Henry Faust; Chas. Grimsley; Ervin Grimsley; Albert Hammon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10HT_memorial-youth-center_Columbia-SC.html
This Memorial Youth Center stands in memory of and in gratitude to the men of Richland County who gave their lives in World War II that the ideals of democratic living might be preserved. May the generous spirit of those youthful heroes commemorat…
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Allen University, chartered in 1880, was founded by the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church. It had its origin in Payne Institute, founded in 1870 in Cokesbury, in Greenwood County. In 1880 the S.C. Conference of the A.M.E. Chu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10HR_waverly_Columbia-SC.html
(Front text) Waverly has been one of Columbia's most significant black communities since the 1930s. The city's first residential suburb, it grew out of a 60-acre parcel bought by Robert Latta in 1855. Latta's widow and children sold the first lots…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10HQ_carver-theatre_Columbia-SC.html
Carver Theatre, built about 1941, was one of Columbia's two exclusively African-American theatres during the segregation era of the mid-20th century. It was run by black operators but owned by the white-owned Dixie Amusement Company for most of it…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10GY_the-statue-of-liberty-division_Columbia-SC.html
The 77th Infantry Division trained at Fort Jackson in 1942 and fought on Guam, Leyte, Kerama Retto, Ie Shima and Okinawa. Returning to Cebu, they took 6,500 Japanese prisoners. They then returned to occupy Hokkaido, Japan where the division was de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM103K_richard-samuel-roberts-house_Columbia-SC.html
(Front text) Richard Samuel Roberts (1880-1936), a photographer who documented individuals, families, and institutions in Columbia's black community and across S.C., lived here from 1920 until his death. Roberts, a self-taught photographer, moved …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZNR_benedict-college_Columbia-SC.html
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Benedict College, founded in 1870 by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to educate freedmen and their descendants, was originally called Benedict Institute. It was named for Stephen and Bathsheba Benedict of Rhode Island, whose beq…