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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C6I_s-c-confederate-soldiers-home_Columbia-SC.html
The Confederate Infirmary opened here in 1909. S.C. was the last southern state to create a residence for indigent Civil War veterans. Legislation authorized space for two veterans from each county. The United Daughters of the Confederacy played a…
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COLUMBIA CIVIL RIGHTS SIT-INS (FRONT)
On March 15, 1960 five African American students from Benedict College - Charles Barr, David Carter, Richard Counts, Milton Greene, and Johnny Clark - were arrested after refusing to leave the lunch counter a…
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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SCHOOL
The two-story main building at Booker T. Washington School, built in 1916, stood here until 1975. At first an elementary school with grades 1-10, it became Booker T. Washington High School with grades 9-10 in 1918, add…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C3R_zion-baptist-church_Columbia-SC.html
Zion Baptist Church first organized in 1865 and met in a humble dwelling on Gadsden St. The congregation moved to this site in 1871. The current sanctuary, the second on this spot, was built in 1916. Zion Baptist has long served as a center for co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C0O_victory-savings-bank_Columbia-SC.html
Victory Savings Bank, founded in 1921, was the first, and for many years the only, black-owned bank in S.C. It was chartered by I.S. Joseph as president and I.S. Leevy and C.E. Stephenson as vice presidents, and opened at 1107 Washington St. in th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C0M_beth-shalom-synagogue_Columbia-SC.html
In 1905 disagreements over religious practices divided members of Columbia's Tree of Life Synagogue. Jews embracing Orthodoxy formed a new synagogue, which they named Beth Shalom (House of Peace). Meetings were held in a private home on the corner…
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/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…
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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…