Richland

Columbia, SC

* Replaced a marker erected in 1938 by the Columbia Sesquicentenial Commission of 1936.

Columbia, SC

In April 1786, Alexander Gillon, Henry Pendleton, Richard Winn, Richard Hampton, and Thomas Taylor, Commissioners appointed to lay out...

Columbia, SC

At this site on 15 November 1942, Maj. Gen. W. A. Burress received the 100th Infantry Division colors, marking the official activation of...

Columbia, SC

Near this site on 15 March 1943 the 106th Infantry Division was officially activated and became known as the "Golden Lion Division.

Columbia, SC

1900 BLOCK OF HERNDERSON STREET (Front) This block features a dense collection of late 19th and early 20th c. houses historically...

Columbia, SC

The "Yankee" Division, which saw extensive combat in World War I, was mobilized for active duty in World War II in January 1941.

Columbia, SC

(Front) After a brilliant combat record in World War I and 14 years of dedicated National Guard service, the "Old Hickory" Division was...

Columbia, SC

Organized in 1917, the 4th Infantry Division was stationed in this area at Ft. Jackson during World War II and received its final...

Columbia, SC

The "Statue of Liberty Division" was reviewed by England's Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt after it was reactivated...

Columbia, SC

The 81st was organized at Camp Jackson, Aug. 25, 1917, where the training area included Wildcat Creek.

Columbia, SC

Activated at Camp McCain, Miss.

Columbia, SC

(Front) Allen University, chartered in 1880, was founded by the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church.

Columbia, SC

This Greek Revival cottage, built ca.

Columbia, SC

In 1786, when Columbia was established as the state capital, the General Assembly decided that two principal thoroughfares should run...

Columbia, SC

This street is named for General John Barnwell, St. Helena's Parish.

Columbia, SC

(Front) Benedict College, founded in 1870 by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to educate freedmen and their descendants, was...

Columbia, SC

(Front) In 1883 members of Columbia’s Jewish community founded the Hebrew Cemetery Society of Columbia as an alternative to the Hebrew...

Columbia, SC

(Front) In 1905 disagreements over religious practices divided members of Columbia’s Tree of Life Synagogue.

Columbia, SC

(Front) This church, founded in 1866, was one of the first separate African-American congregations established in Columbia after the...

Blythewood, SC

Bethel Baptist Church was founded in 1884 by black members of nearby Sandy Level Baptist Church seeking to organize a separate congregation.

Lake Murray of Richland, SC

(Front) This church, organized in 1762 by German colonists, is one of the first Lutheran congregations in the Dutch Fork region.

Forest Acres, SC

This church was organized in 1835 in what was then rural Richland District.

Irmo, SC

The organization date of this Lutheran church is unknown.

Columbia, SC

Bethlehem Lutheran Church erected its first known building about 350 feet north of here on a 17-acre tract purchased from George Metz in...

Columbia, SC

(Front) This church, founded in 1963, was originally about 3 mi. NW on Bluff Road.

Columbia, SC

Maxcy Gregg, Confederate general and leader in Southern rights movement, was born Aug. 1, 1815 in a house on this site.

Columbia, SC

Originally named Walnut Street, Blanding Street was by 1869 renamed for Abram Blanding, a Massachusetts native who came to Columbia in...

Columbia, SC

BLOSSOM STREET SCHOOL (Front) Blossom Street School, at the corner of what was then Blossom & Gates (now Park) Streets, was built in 1898...

Blythewood, SC

(Front) The first school here built c.1890 was a one-room frame building.

Columbia, SC

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SCHOOL (Front) The two-story main building at Booker T. Washington School, built in 1916, stood here until 1975.

Columbia, SC

Early boundary between Cherokee and Catawba Indians.

Columbia, SC

This street was named for Brigadier General Stephen Bull (c. 1733-1800).

Columbia, SC

(Front) Due to Columbia’s strategic value, capture of the city was an objective of the Union Army during the Carolinas Campaign of 1865.

Columbia, SC

(Front) This house, built ca.

Dentsville, SC

This Confederate camp of instruction was once located about 1 mi. NW at Lightwood Knot Springs, site of a popular resort prior to the War...

Columbia, SC

CANAL DIME SAVINGS BANK (Front) This three-story building was designed by the noted Columbia architectural firm of W.B. Smith Whaley and...

Columbia, SC

Carver Theatre, built about 1941, was one of Columbia’s two exclusively African-American theatres during the segregation era of the...

Columbia, SC

Beginning in 1883 with services held in nearby private homes by Trinity Church, this Episcopal church then constructed a building on...

Columbia, SC

This street, originally named Medium Street and part of the original 1786 Columbia plan, bisected the area which was to be the campus of...

Columbia, SC

Columbia Bible School classes began in 1923 in the towered building which once stood on this * † No longer extant.

Columbia, SC

COLUMBIA BIBLE COLLEGE, 1937-1960 (Front) In 1937 Columbia Bible College (now Columbia International University) acquired the Ainsley...

Columbia, SC

Completed 1824. Important link in the system of waterways transporting freight between the up country and Charleston.

Columbia, SC

COLUMBIA HOSPITAL “NEGRO UNIT” (Front) Columbia Hospital, est. 1892, opened a segregated wing for African Americans in 1934 at its...

Columbia, SC

(Front) From April 1864 to February 1865 Confederate bonds and currency were printed and processed in this building, constructed in...

Horrell Hill, SC

A few miles south was the site of original Congaree Baptist Church, organized 1766 with the Rev. Joseph Reese as pastor.

Columbia, SC

This river took its name from the Congaree Indians, a Siouan tribe which occupied the valley until the Yemassee War in 1715.

Lower Richland, SC

(Front) Joseph Joyner owned a private ferry on the Congaree River near this site by 1749.

Columbia, SC

Richland County's second court house was built in 1803-04 on the northeast corner of Richardson (Main) and Washington Streets.

Columbia, SC

(Front) This hangar, built in 1929 by the Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, was the first building at Owens Field, a municipal airport then...

Columbia, SC

(Front) The DuPre Building was built in 1919 and was designed by prominent S.C. architect James B. Urquhart.

Columbia, SC

On this site stood Howard School, a public school for blacks established after the Civil War.

Olympia, SC

First settlements made about 1740 on this creek, originally called Raiford's, now Mill Creek.

Eastover, SC

(Front) Eastover, so named for being “east and over” from Columbia, was a small rural community of the mid-19th century that grew into a...

Columbia, SC

First Lutheran congregation in Columbia.

Columbia, SC

This street, originally named Upper Street, was the northernmost street in the original 1786 Columbia plan.

Columbia, SC

FAIR-RUTHERFORD HOUSE (Front) The Fair-Rutherford House, a Greek Revival cottage, stood here from ca.

Columbia, SC

Congregation organized 1809.

Columbia, SC

(Front) First Calvary Baptist Church descended from African American congregants who left First Baptist Church following the Civil War.

Columbia, SC

* No longer extant. First congregation organized in Columbia (1795).

Forest Acres, SC

About 1800, Col. Thomas Taylor erected the small building, ¼ mile upstream, where cotton goods were woven for his plantation needs.

Columbia, SC

Founded 1828 by Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina and Georgia.

Cayce, SC

1 mi. west was East Granby Landing of Friday's Ferry (licensed 1754) across Congaree River.

Gadsden, SC

Named in honor of James Gadsden President of the Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad.

Columbia, SC

This street was named for Charlestonian Christopher Gadsden, member of the 1759 Cherokee expedition, the Commons House of Assembly, and...

Blythewood, SC

(Front) This house was built ca.

Columbia, SC

GERVAIS STREET (Front) Named for John Lewis Gervais (c.1742-1798) who was educated in Germany, emigrated first to England, arrived in...

Columbia, SC

Named for Maj. Wade Hampton Gibbes (1837-1903) prominent Columbian who owned much of the land to the east, Gibbes Green consisted of an...

Columbia, SC

States-rights advocate Adley Hogan Gladden, who lived here before the Civil War, served Columbia as postmaster 1841-45 and was later...

Columbia, SC

(Front) Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital, created in 1938 by the merger of two older hospitals, served the black community of Columbia for...

Columbia, SC

Arsenal Academy, converted from a state arsenal, occupied this square from 1842 to 1865 when Union troops burned all the academy...

Horrell Hill, SC

Joseph Reese, pioneer Baptist minister and Revolutionary patriot who died in 1795, is buried 2 mi. SW of here.

Columbia, SC

Why this street was named "Green" on the original 1786 plan of Columbia is not certain; but in keeping with presumed original intentions...

Columbia, SC

(Front) Richard Winn, for whom this street was first named, was born in Virginia in 1750 and came to South Carolina as a young man.

Columbia, SC

Built about 1818 by Ainsley Hall.

Columbia, SC

This street was named for William Harden, a native South Carolinian.

Hopkins, SC

(Front) In 1872 Samuel Barber (d. 1891) and his wife Harriet (d. 1899), both former slaves, bought 42 1/2 acres here from the S.C. Land...

Columbia, SC

(Front) This home’s first owner was John R. Cornwell, an African American business man and civic leader who owned a successful barber...

Columbia, SC

This street is named for Brig. Gen. William Henderson, who was in the Third S. C. Regiment at the fall of Charlestown in 1780.

Hopkins, SC

(Front) This rural community grew up around the plantation of John Hopkins (1739-1775).

Hopkins, SC

(Front) This cemetery was established about 1775 when John Hopkins (1739-1775) was buried here, in what was the garden of his Back Swamp...

Horrell Hill, SC

300 yards north is the site of the Richland County Court House built about 1794; abandoned when county courts were abolished 1798.

Columbia, SC

One of the oldest houses in Columbia; built before 1813, probably by Peter Horry (1747-1815), Colonel in Revolution, Brigadier General of...

Columbia, SC

Established after the Civil War, this public school for blacks was located at the NW corner of Hampton & Lincoln streets by 1869 and was...

Columbia, SC

This street was named for Brig. Gen. Isaac Huger, who fought in the Cherokee War of 1760 and during the American Revolution at Stono,...

Columbia, SC

(Front) Isaiah DeQuincey Newman (1911-1985), Methodist minister, civil rights leader, and state senator, lived here from 1960 until his...

Columbia, SC

ISRAELITE SUNDAY SCHOOL (Front) The Israelite Sunday School, the first Jewish religious school in Columbia, met in a building on this...

Columbia, SC

(Front) This is the site of the home of James Miles Hinton (1891-1970), businessman, civil rights pioneer, and minister.

Columbia, SC

(Front) The Jefferson Hotel, designed and built by Columbia entrepreneur and contractor John Jefferson Cain (1869-1929), stood here at...

Eastover, SC

(Front) This plantation on the Wateree River features a remarkable Italianate Revival house built in 1852-54.

KINGVILLE (GADSDEN VICINITY), SC

(Front) Kingville, a rural community, was established in 1840 as a station on the Louisville, Cincinnati, and Charleston Railroad, on the...

Columbia, SC

Congregation originated in the Sabbath School for colored people organized by the First Presbyterian Church 1838, later conducted by the...

Columbia, SC

One of the original streets in the 1786 Columbia plan, Lady Street is thought to have been named for Martha Custis Washington, the new...

Columbia, SC

Wade Hampton, III, born March 28, 1818, was commander of Hampton Legion, 1861, with rank of Colonel; Lieutenant General, C. S. A., 1865;...

Columbia, SC

This street probably takes its name from the cherry laurel (laurocerasus caroliniana) and the mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia), both of...

Columbia, SC

Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, for whom this street is named, was a division commander in the Saratoga Campaign.

Columbia, SC

(Front) This property once featured homes, businesses and rental properties that belonged to the same African American family for more...

Columbia, SC

(Front) Brigadier General Francis Marion was born in South Carolina about 1732 of French Huguenot descent.

Columbia, SC

(Front) Dr. Matilda A. Evans (1872-1935), an African American physician, as well as a public health and civil rights advocate, lived here...

Columbia, SC

(Front) Matthew J. Perry, Jr. (b. 1921), lawyer, civil rights pioneer, and jurist, lived in a house on this site as a youth; the house...

Columbia, SC

(Front) This city park, established in 1911, was named for Confederate general Maxcy Gregg (1814-1862).

Hopkins, SC

Minervaville, between Cabin Branch and Cedar Creek, was an early 19th-century community.

Columbia, SC

(Front) This house was for sixty years the home of Modjeska Monteith Simkins (1899-1992), social reformer and civil rights activist.

Columbia, SC

(Front) Nathaniel J. Frederick (1877-1938), educator, lawyer, newspaper editor, and civil rights activist, lived here from 1904 until his...

Hopkins, SC

(Front) New Light Beulah Baptist Church was organized in 1867 when 565 African American members withdrew from Beulah Baptist Church.

Columbia, SC

This land was purchased in 1854 by the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church as the site of Columbia Female...

Columbia, SC

In 1886, chiefly through the efforts of D. B. Johnson, first superintendent of Columbia public schools, Winthrop Training School, later...

Columbia, SC

Born in 1902, Paul Redfern at an early age showed a marked mechanical aptitude and excitement for aviation.

Columbia, SC

This street is named for Judge Henry Pendleton, one of the Town of Columbia's original commissioners.

Columbia, SC

This street was named for Andrew Pickens (1739-1817).

St. Andrews, SC

* Proposed location.

Columbia, SC

This street was named for Casimir Pulaski, a Polish count who came to America in 1777 to aid the Patriot cause.

Columbia, SC

(Front) This warehouse was built in 1913 as the schoolbook depository for the R.L. Bryan Company.

Columbia, SC

(Front) Randolph Cemetery, founded in 1871, was one of the first black cemeteries in Columbia.

Columbia, SC

REDFERN FIELD (Front) This is the site of Redfern Field, established in 1923 as the first commercial airfield in Columbia.

Columbia, SC

(Front) Richard Samuel Roberts (1880-1936), a photographer who documented individuals, families, and institutions in Columbia’s black...

Columbia, SC

RICHARDSON STREET (Front) Columbia's chief business street, Main, was first named Richardson Street, for Richard Richardson (1704-1780).

Gadsden, SC

(Front) This church building was dedicated in May 1884 by Dr. John L. Girardeau.

Columbia, SC

One of the original streets in the 1786 Columbia plan, Richland Street was probably named after Richland County, which had been so...

Irmo, SC

Julius Rosenwald, Chicago philanthropist and president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., (1910-1925), helped fund this black school, built 1918.

Columbia, SC

(Front) The Robert Weston Mance House, built in 1903, stood here at the corner of Pine and Hampton Streets until 2008.

Columbia, SC

ROBERTS STREET (Front) This street, which is located five blocks north and is the westernmost in Columbia's original plan of 1786, was...

Columbia, SC

(Front) The Confederate Infirmary opened here in 1909.

Columbia, SC

(Front) This depot, built by the Seaboard Air Line Railway in 1904, was the third passenger depot built in Columbia, following the South...

Columbia, SC

(Front) This house, listed in the National Register of Historic Places and probably built during the last decade of the 18th century, is...

Columbia, SC

The South Carolina General Assembly created Columbia as the state's capital city in 1786, and Senate Street was named for the upper house...

Columbia, SC

(Front) In 1890 the Columbia Land and Investment Co. purchased farm land in this area for development, laying out streets and sidewalks...

Columbia, SC

(Front) Shandon Presbyterian Church began as Shandon Mission, which first met in Oct. 1913.

Columbia, SC

(Front) Sidney Park C.M.E. Church was founded in 1886 and has been at this site since 1889.

Columbia, SC

In this square stood the home of Colonel Abram Blanding (1776-1839) for whom this street was named.

Columbia, SC

Authorized by legislature 1792, the Columbia Female Academy was located here from about 1820 to 1883, when this property was leased to...

Columbia, SC

Trustees appointed by legislature 1792 were incorporated 1795 and served as trustees for male and female academies.

Columbia, SC

On this corner stood the home of Dr. Robert W. Gibbes (1809-66) distinguished physician, scientist, historian, editor, antiquarian;...

Columbia, SC

On the SW corner of this square was located the Palmetto Armory, later called Palmetto Iron Works, originally built for converting flint...

Columbia, SC

During Federal military occupation of South Carolina 1865-1877, this square was part of the parade ground used by United States troops.

Columbia, SC

Established March 10, 1862 by a group of Columbia women to care for sick and wounded Confederate soldiers.

Blythewood, SC

* † Marker not assigned number.

Columbia, SC

At Barhamville, about ½ mi. west of this point, a famous girls' school, founded by Dr. Elias Marks (1790-1886), was located 1828-65.

Columbia, SC

(Front) This garden was established in 1944 by the Garden Club of South Carolina.

Columbia, SC

Institution authorized 1821 by General Assembly, mainly through the work of two members, Samuel Farrow and William Crafts, Jr. The...

Spring Hill Community, SC

This community, named by 1791 for the springs at the foot of the Stone Hill, included Eleazer's Tavern, a post office, schools, grist...

Columbia, SC

ST. PAUL CHURCH (Front) One of the first black churches after the Civil War, St. Paul AME began as Oak Grove African Methodist Episcopal...

Columbia, SC

First church built 1824; present church 1906.

Eastover, SC

This church, organized by 1835, met first in a brush arbor 1 ½ mi. N., then constructed a sanctuary on this site shortly thereafter.

Columbia, SC

(Front) This building, built in 1863-64 and burned by Federal troops in 1865, was rebuilt in 1872 as a cotton batting factory and warehouse.

Columbia, SC

(Front) This block was part of the fairgrounds where the S.C. State Fair was held 1856-1861 and 1869-1903.

Columbia, SC

(Front) The S.C. State Fair was founded in 1856 by the State Agricultural Society.

Columbia, SC

(Front) A Virginia native who came to South Carolina ca.

Columbia, SC

(Front) Named for the Taylor family, this street is one of the original streets in the 1786 Columbia plan.

Columbia, SC

THE LIGHTHOUSE & INFORMER (Front) The Lighthouse & Informer, long the leading black newspaper in S.C., was a weekly published here from...

Columbia, SC

(Front) Columbia was founded in 1786, replacing Charleston as the state capital.

Columbia, SC

THOMAS TAYLOR 1743-1833(Front) Member of Provincial Congresses 1775 and 1776; Colonel of militia under General Thomas Sumter in the...

Columbia, SC

Parish organized 1812.

Columbia, SC

Chartered 1801 as the S. C. College, opened January 10, 1805.

Columbia, SC

(Front) 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...

Columbia, SC

(Front) This house, built after 1900, was originally a two-story frame residence with a projecting bay and wraparound porch; a fire in...

Columbia, SC

(Front) The North Carolina Mutual Building was built in 1909 by the N.C. Mutual and Provident Association, a black-owned life insurance...

Columbia, SC

This street is named for George Washington, commander of the Continental Army throughout the Revolution, first President of the United...

Columbia, SC

A church was built here between 1803 and 1805; another church, erected 1832, was burned by Union troops in 1865 and reconstructed in 1866...

Eastover, SC

River took its name from Wateree Indians, a Siouan tribe which occupied the valley until about 1715.

Columbia, SC

(Front) Waverly has been one of Columbia’s most significant black communities since the 1930s.

Columbia, SC

WAVERLY FIVE AND DIME (Front) The Waverly Five & Dime, located here until about 1957, was managed 1945-48 by George A. Elmore...

Columbia, SC

This street was named for Anthony Wayne (1745-1796) of Pennsylvania.

Columbia, SC

(Front) Wesley Methodist Church is the oldest African American Methodist congregation in Columbia.

Columbia, SC

WILLIAMS STREET (Front) This street was named for Otho H. Williams, Brig. Gen. of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Columbia, SC

Built by 1872, this house was the boyhood home of Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), twentyeighth President of the United States (1913-21).

Columbia, SC

1 ½ mi. south was WOODLANDS, built before 1800 by Wade Hampton, I (1752-1835), Colonel in Revolution, Major General in War of 1812.

Columbia, SC

(Front) Zion Baptist Church first organized in 1865 and met in a humble dwelling on Gadsden St. The congregation moved to this site in 1871.

Columbia, SC

(Front) This African-American church was organized ca.