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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C4E_benjamin-mack-house_Columbia-SC.html
Educator and civil rights leader Benjamin Mack (1916-1970) lived in this house from the late 1950s until his death in 1970. Mack was a graduate of Booker T. Washington H.S. and S.C. State Univ. He taught at Lower Richland H.S. in the 1940s where h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM170G_zion-chapel-baptist-church-no-1_Columbia-SC.html
This African-American church was organized ca. 1865 when four men left Sandy Level Baptist Church, founded before the Revolution with both white and black members, to form their own congregation. They elected Rev. Joe Taylor as their first pastor …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12Z4_i-dequincey-newman-house_Columbia-SC.html
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Isaiah DeQuincey Newman (1911~1985), Methodist minister, civil rights leader, and state senator, lived here from 1960 until his death. Born in Darlington County, he attended Claflin College and was a graduate of Clark College and Gammon T…
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/HMSKG_skirmish-at-killians-mill_Columbia-SC.html
On February 18, 1865, the day after Federals under Gen. W.T. Sherman occupied Columbia, Gen. Frank Blair ordered units of his XVII Corps to destroy railroad tracks north of the city. Portions of Gen. M.C. Butler's Confederate cavalry division, inc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO0R_monteith-school_Columbia-SC.html
(Front text) This African-American school, built nearby before 1900, was originally New Hope School, a white school affiliated with Union Church. It closed about 1914. In 1921 Rachel Hull Monteith (d. 1958) opened Nelson School as a black public s…