Midtown - Downtown in Columbia in Richland County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)

The Robert Mills Historic House and Park

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), January 17, 2026

1. The Robert Mills Historic House and Park Marker

Inscription.

The Robert Mills Historic House and Park. . The Robert Mills Historic House and Park established 1967 by the Historic Columbia Foundation and the Richland County Historic Preservation Commission through the generosity of its Patrons and Founders. Patrons Anchor Continental . Mrs. Delano Andrews . Mallard R. and Jessie Rideoutte Bagnal . Bankers Trust of South Carolina . Flora McIver Barringer . Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Scott Barringer . Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Scott Barringer, Jr. . Belk Department Store . Mr. and Mrs. Hagood Bostick . The R. L. Bryan Company . The Citizens and Southern National Bank of South Carolina . City of Columbia . Colonial Life and Accident Insurance Co. . The Columbia Committee on the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of South Carolina . Columbia Garden Club . Columbia Lumber and Manufacture Co. . The Commercial Bank and Trust Company of South Carolina . Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Haselden Cooper . Mr. and Mrs. James Franklin Dreher . Mrs. Robert B. Durham . J. Drake and May Youmans Edens . Mr. and Mrs. John E. Edens . Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Fair . Georgia Maude Fairey . First National Bank of South Carolina . Mrs. Betty Bean Flinsch . Mrs. Claude B. Free . Garden Club of South Carolina . Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Mason Gibbes . Mrs. Caroline Leconte Gibbes . James Heyward Gibbes, M.D. . Gibbes Machinery Company , Guignard Brick Works . Jane Bruce Guignard, M.D. . Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Gonzales Hampton . Mrs. Hubbard Harris . Mr. and Mrs. John Graham Heller . Mr. and Mrs. Robert Beverly Herbert . Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Hoefer . Home Federal Savings and Loan Assciation of Columbia . The Junior League of Columbia, Inc. . Erin Spence Kohn . MRs. John C. Lott . Lyles, Bissett, Carlisle, and Wolff Architects, Engineers, Planners . McGrory Construction Company . McKesson and Robbins Drug Company . Mr. and Mrs. Thomas English McCutchen . Mrs. W. Bedford Moore, Jr. . Mr. and Mrs. William J. Murray, Jr. . The Palmetto Garden Club of South Carolina . Palmetto Quarries . The Richardson Foundation . Richland County . Mr. and Mrs. David Wallace Robinson . Wilbur Smith Foundation . South Carolina Chapter The American Institute of Architects . South Carolina Electric and Cab Company . The South Carolina National Bank . Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. . The State-Record Company . Sylvan Brothers Jewelers . Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Taylor . Kate H. Wallace , Dedicated during the tenth anniversary celebration of the Historic Columbia Foundation 1962 - 1972. Founders Albrusa Club of Columbia . Mrs. Delano Andrews . Mallard R. and Jessie Rideoutte Bagnal . Bankers Trust of South Carolina . Flora McIver Barringer . Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Scott Barringer . Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Scott Barringer, Jr. . Belk Department Store . Col. And Mrs. Irvine Furman Belser . Mary Elizabeth Wilson Belser Memorial . Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Blalock . Mr. and Mrs. R. Trippett Boineau . Mr. and Mrs. Hagood Bostick . Mr. and Mrs. William G. Boyd III . Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Belton Boyle . Bradley, Graham and Hamey Advertising Agency, Inc. . Dr. and Mrs. Walter J. Bristow . The R.L. Bryan Company . Dr. and Mrs. E. Gaither Bumgardner . Margaret Anne Callaham Bumgardner Memorial . Dr. George Henry Bunch, Sr., Memorial . H. Robert Burg Memorial . Mr. and Mrs. Olin Karl Burgdorf . Harriet Newman Burnside . Carolina Eastman Company . Dr. and Mrs. Raymund M. Cassidy . Cate-McLaurin Company . Central Chevrolet Company, Inc. . Central News Company . Mrs. Owen Robertson Cheatham . The Citizens and Southern National Bank of South Carolina . City of Columbia . Robert J. Clarke, Sr. . Andrew Crawford Clarkson Memorial . Coker's Penngreed Seed Company . The Colonial Life and Accident Insurance Company . The Columbia Committee on the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of South Carolina . Columbia Garden Club . Columbia Lumber and Manufacturing Company . The Commercial Bank and Trust Company of South Carolina . Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Haselen Cooper . Mr. and Mrs. William Presley Cooper Memorial . Paul A. Cooper Memorial . Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation, WIS/WIS-TV . Mrs. Mary Swaffield Gowan . Statira and Suzanne H. Crawford Memorial . Flora Gray and Thomas Grouch . Daughters of the American Revolution Columbia Area Chapters . Col. And Mrs. John J. Dargan Memorial . The Davis Family - E.N. and F.T. Davis . Mr. and Mrs. John J. Dargan Bratton Davis . Mr. and Mrs. J. Donald Dial . Mr. and Mrs. James Franklin Dreher . Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Marion Dybose, Jr. . Mr. and Mrs. John W. Dynbar, Sr. , Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Feagle . Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mcc.Figg, Jr. . Mr. and Mrs. David E. Finley . First National Bank of South Carolina . Mrs. Betty Bean Flinsch . Mr. and Mrs. Harold Flinsch, Jr. . Dr. Ralph Kelsey and Kate McSween Foster . Claude Burckmyer Free Memorial . Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford Oakman Free . Margaret S. Gadsden . Garden Club of South Carolina . Alexander Mason Gibbes . Alexander Mason Gibbes Memorial . Mrs. Caroline Leconte Gibbes . Mr. and Mrs. Louis Leconte Gibbes . Gibbes Machinery Company . Mrs. Sarah Davies Gibbes . Wade Hampton Gibbes, Jr., Memorial . Mrs. Lucie Ellerbe Godbold Memorial . James Furman Goggans Memorial . Ambrose E. Gonzaels Memorial . Miss Wil Lou Gray . Clinton Tompkins Graydon Memorial . John Grimball . Guignard Brick Works . Caroline and Susan Richardson Guignard Memorial . Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Gadsden Guignard Memorial . Jane Bruce Guignard, M.D. . Mr. and Mrs. Sanders Richardson Guignard, Jr. . W.E. Guimarin and Company . Thomas E. Hair . Dr. and Mrs. Thoams Eugene Hair, Jr. . Ainsley Hall Memorial . Andrew Lyman Hall Memorial . Mrs. Sarah Cook Goodwyn Hall Memorial . Haltiwanger's . Mr. and Mrs. Ames Haltiwanger . Miss Laura Haltiwanger . James H. Hammond . Mr. and Mrs. Harry R.E. Hampton . Hancock Buick Company . G. Thomas Harmon, III and William J. Keenan, III, Architects . Mrs. Hubbard H. Harris . Dr. and Mrs. George Childs Hart . Joseph E. Hart Memorial . Orlander Whitley Hartness Memorial . Mrs. Joseph C. Hartwell . Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wheeler Haselden . M. Chappelle and Elizabeth Tennet Heaty Memorial . Mr. and Mrs. John Graham Heller . Joune R. Henderson . Julian and Helen Kohn Henning Memorial . Robert Beverley Herbert . Miss Mary Barksdale Heyward . Frederick A. and Sophie S. Hoffer Memorial . Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Hoefer . Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Columbia . Theodore Jervey Hopkins, M.D., Memorial . J.W. Hunt and Company . James Edwin Hunter, Jr., Memorial . Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Jefferies, Jr. . Ruben C. and Alice R. Johnson . Lola E. Johnston Memorial . Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Jones . Dr. Allen Izard Josey , The Junior League of Columbia, Inc. . Elmira de Graffenried Keenan Memorial . Erin Spence Kohn . Lafaye, Fair, Lafaye and Associates . Dr. and Mrs. M. Tucker Lafayette, Jr. . Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Langley . Mrs. Caroline Adams Le Conte Memorial . Miss Evelyn Le Conte Memorial . Louis Le Conte Memorial . Mr. and Mrs. Burke Mayor Lemmond Memorial . Mr. and Mrs. F.V. Levantis, Jr. . Judge and Mrs. Harry M. Lightsey . Dr. and Mrs. Guy Fleming Lipscomb Memorial . Mr. and Mrs. Guy Fleming Lipscomb . Lee Alexander Lorick Memorial . Mrs. and Mrs. George Duncan Lott . Mrs. John C. Lott . Mary Lowe, Inc. . Alva Icore and Mary Sumter Lumpkin Memorial . Lyles, Mbissett, Carlisle S. Wolff Architects, Engineers, Planners . McCrory Construction Company . Dr. and Mrs. Martin L. Mc Crory . Dr. and Mrs. George Thomas Mc Cutchen . Mr. and Mrs. Thoams English Mc Cutchen, Jr. . Mc Kesson S. Robbins Drug Company, Columbia Division . Colonel and Mrs. Fitz William Mc Master Memorial . Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Buchanan Mc Master . The W. Eugene Mc Nulty Memorial . The Reverend Doctor and Mrs. William Marcellus Mc Pheeters Memorial . Nellie Watson Madden Memorial . The Market and Varsity Restaurants . Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Martin . Mr. and Mrs. George Glenn Mattehws, Sr. . Dr. and Mrs. Orlando Benedict Mayes III . Dr. and Mrs. Pinkney Venning Mikel Memorial . Dr. Elbert Marston Moffatt Memorial . Austin T. Moore, M.D. . Mrs. Margaret Le Conte Moore . Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Thompson Moore Memorial . Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Thompson Moore . W. Bedford Moore, Jr. . Moung Vernon Life Insurance Company . The Reverend Hugh Roderick Murchison, D.D. Memorial . James Bryson Murphy Memorial . Mr. and Mrs. William J. Murray, Jr. . Dr. and Mrs. William Jacob Murray Memorial . The New South Life Insurance Company . Noland Company . Dr. Robert D. Ochs . Mr. and Mrs. William Micahel Otis Memorial . Mrs. H.F. Owens . The Palmetto Garden Club of South Carolina . Palmetto Quarries . Palmetto State Life Insurance Company . The Charles W.Parker Family . Mrs. Paula Miller Patrick . William Leonard Perry Memorial . Pet Dairy Division, Pet, Inc. . Bishop Henry D. and Ella Reese Phillips . Dr. and Mrs. Dargan Strouher Pope Memorial . John Julius Pringle, Jr. Memorial . Mr. and Mrs. John Julius Pringle, Jr. . Mrs. Margaret Gibbles Pringle , Pulliam Memorial . Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Mayo Reed, Jr. . Robert Vaux Read . Ida Salley Reamer Memorial . The Rembert Company, Inc. . The Charles Reynolds Memorial . Mrs. S.C. Rhame . George Milton Rhodes Memorial . Mr. and Mrs. Marion Rich Memorial . Alfred Aldrick Richardson Memorial . The Richardson Foundation . Richland County . Richland County Hstorical Society . Mrs. C. Anderson Riley . Roberts, Jennings and Thomas Attorneys at Law . Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wale Robertson Memorial . Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Robertson . Mr. and Mrs. David Wallace Robinson . David Wallace Robinson, Jr. . Mrs. Elizabeth Gibbes Johnson Memorial . Thoams Hugh Robinson Memorial . Toddey Packing Company . Rose-Talbert Paint Company . Rotary Club of Columbia . J. Rubin and Son Company . Thomas Kinkaid Rupp Memorial . Governor and Mrs. Donald S. Russell . Dr. Alfred Scarborough, Jr., Memorial . Security Federal Savings and Loan Association of Columbia . The Seibels Family . Mr. and Mrs. G. Richard Shapto . Mr. and Mrs. Arthur St. Julian Simons . Dr. and Mrs. George W. Smith, Jr. . Mr. and Mrs. John G.B. Smith . Wilbur S. Smith Family . Wilbur Smith Foundation, Inc. . South Carolina Chapter, The American Institute of Architects . South Carolina Electric and Gas Company . The South Carolina Society, Colonial Dames XVII Century . Southern Bell Telephone Company . Standard Savings and Loan Association . The State-Record Company . Sylvan Brothers Jewelers . The James L. Taff Company . Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Taylor . George Coffin and Ellen Elmore Taylor . Taylor Street Pharmacy . Dr. and Mrs. Walter W. Theus . The John C. Thomas Memorial . Mr. and Mrs. Jim Van Metre . Walker Plumbing and Heating Company . Kate H. Wallace . Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson Wells . Eugenia Chills Westmoreland Memorial . The Weston and Brooker Company . White's Department Stores . Mrs. Henry Wiesepape . Charles Coker Wilson Memorial . Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. . Mr. and Mrs. D.M. Winter, Jr. . Lisbeth Wolfe, Inc. . J. Henry Woodward, Jr., Memorial . Edward J. Wright Memorial . Dr. George Henry Yerbst Memorial

The Robert Mills
Historic House and Park
established 1967 by the
Historic Columbia Foundation
and the
Richland County Historic
Preservation Commission
through the generosity of its
Patrons and Founders
Patrons
Anchor Continental • Mrs. Delano Andrews • Mallard R. and Jessie Rideoutte Bagnal • Bankers Trust of South Carolina • Flora McIver Barringer • Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Scott Barringer • Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Scott Barringer, Jr. • Belk Department Store • Mr. and Mrs. Hagood Bostick • The R. L. Bryan Company • The Citizens and Southern National Bank of South Carolina • City of Columbia • Colonial Life and Accident Insurance Co. • The Columbia Committee on the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of South Carolina • Columbia Garden Club • Columbia Lumber and Manufacture Co. • The Commercial Bank and Trust Company of South Carolina • Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Haselden Cooper • Mr. and Mrs. James Franklin Dreher • Mrs. Robert B. Durham • J. Drake and May Youmans Edens • Mr. and Mrs. John E. Edens • Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Fair • Georgia Maude Fairey

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• First National Bank of South Carolina • Mrs. Betty Bean Flinsch • Mrs. Claude B. Free • Garden Club of South Carolina • Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Mason Gibbes • Mrs. Caroline Leconte Gibbes • James Heyward Gibbes, M.D. • Gibbes Machinery Company

Guignard Brick Works • Jane Bruce Guignard, M.D. • Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Gonzales Hampton • Mrs. Hubbard Harris • Mr. and Mrs. John Graham Heller • Mr. and Mrs. Robert Beverly Herbert • Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Hoefer • Home Federal Savings and Loan Assciation of Columbia • The Junior League of Columbia, Inc. • Erin Spence Kohn • MRs. John C. Lott • Lyles, Bissett, Carlisle, and Wolff Architects, Engineers, Planners • McGrory Construction Company • McKesson and Robbins Drug Company • Mr. and Mrs. Thomas English McCutchen • Mrs. W. Bedford Moore, Jr. • Mr. and Mrs. William J. Murray, Jr. • The Palmetto Garden Club of South Carolina • Palmetto Quarries • The Richardson Foundation • Richland County • Mr. and Mrs. David Wallace Robinson • Wilbur Smith Foundation • South Carolina Chapter The American Institute of Architects • South Carolina

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2. The Robert Mills Historic House and Park Marker

Electric & Cab Company • The South Carolina National Bank • Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. • The State-Record Company • Sylvan Brothers Jewelers • Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Taylor • Kate H. Wallace

Dedicated during the tenth anniversary celebration of the Historic Columbia Foundation
1962 - 1972
Founders
Albrusa Club of Columbia • Mrs. Delano Andrews • Mallard R. and Jessie Rideoutte Bagnal • Bankers Trust of South Carolina • Flora McIver Barringer • Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Scott Barringer • Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Scott Barringer, Jr. • Belk Department Store • Col. And Mrs. Irvine Furman Belser • Mary Elizabeth Wilson Belser Memorial • Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Blalock • Mr. and Mrs. R. Trippett Boineau • Mr. and Mrs. Hagood Bostick • Mr. and Mrs. William G. Boyd III • Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Belton Boyle • Bradley, Graham & Hamey Advertising Agency, Inc. • Dr. and Mrs. Walter J. Bristow • The R.L. Bryan Company • Dr. and Mrs. E. Gaither Bumgardner • Margaret Anne Callaham Bumgardner Memorial • Dr. George Henry Bunch, Sr., Memorial • H. Robert Burg Memorial • Mr. and Mrs. Olin

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3. The Robert Mills Historic House and Park Marker

Karl Burgdorf • Harriet Newman Burnside • Carolina Eastman Company • Dr. and Mrs. Raymund M. Cassidy • Cate-McLaurin Company • Central Chevrolet Company, Inc. • Central News Company • Mrs. Owen Robertson Cheatham • The Citizens and Southern National Bank of South Carolina • City of Columbia • Robert J. Clarke, Sr. • Andrew Crawford Clarkson Memorial • Coker's Penngreed Seed Company • The Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company • The Columbia Committee on the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of South Carolina • Columbia Garden Club • Columbia Lumber and Manufacturing Company • The Commercial Bank & Trust Company of South Carolina • Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Haselen Cooper • Mr. and Mrs. William Presley Cooper Memorial • Paul A. Cooper Memorial • Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation, WIS/WIS-TV • Mrs. Mary Swaffield Gowan • Statira and Suzanne H. Crawford Memorial • Flora Gray and Thomas Grouch • Daughters of the American Revolution Columbia Area Chapters • Col. And Mrs. John J. Dargan Memorial • The Davis Family - E.N. and F.T. Davis • Mr. and Mrs. John J. Dargan

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4. The Robert Mills Historic House and Park Marker

Bratton Davis • Mr. and Mrs. J. Donald Dial • Mr. and Mrs. James Franklin Dreher • Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Marion Dybose, Jr. • Mr. and Mrs. John W. Dynbar, Sr.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Feagle • Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mcc.Figg, Jr. • Mr. and Mrs. David E. Finley • First National Bank of South Carolina • Mrs. Betty Bean Flinsch • Mr. and Mrs. Harold Flinsch, Jr. • Dr. Ralph Kelsey and Kate McSween Foster • Claude Burckmyer Free Memorial • Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford Oakman Free • Margaret S. Gadsden • Garden Club of South Carolina • Alexander Mason Gibbes • Alexander Mason Gibbes Memorial • Mrs. Caroline Leconte Gibbes • Mr. and Mrs. Louis Leconte Gibbes • Gibbes Machinery Company • Mrs. Sarah Davies Gibbes • Wade Hampton Gibbes, Jr., Memorial • Mrs. Lucie Ellerbe Godbold Memorial • James Furman Goggans Memorial • Ambrose E. Gonzaels Memorial • Miss Wil Lou Gray • Clinton Tompkins Graydon Memorial • John Grimball • Guignard Brick Works • Caroline and Susan Richardson Guignard Memorial • Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Gadsden Guignard Memorial • Jane Bruce Guignard, M.D. • Mr. and Mrs. Sanders Richardson Guignard, Jr. • W.E. Guimarin and Company • Thomas E. Hair • Dr. and Mrs. Thoams Eugene Hair, Jr. • Ainsley Hall Memorial • Andrew Lyman Hall Memorial • Mrs. Sarah Cook Goodwyn Hall Memorial • Haltiwanger's • Mr. and Mrs. Ames Haltiwanger • Miss Laura Haltiwanger • James H. Hammond • Mr. and Mrs. Harry R.E. Hampton • Hancock Buick Company • G. Thomas Harmon, III and William J. Keenan, III, Architects • Mrs. Hubbard H. Harris • Dr. and Mrs. George Childs Hart • Joseph E. Hart Memorial • Orlander Whitley Hartness Memorial • Mrs. Joseph C. Hartwell • Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wheeler Haselden • M. Chappelle and Elizabeth Tennet Heaty Memorial • Mr. and Mrs. John Graham Heller • Joune R. Henderson • Julian and Helen Kohn Henning Memorial • Robert Beverley Herbert • Miss Mary Barksdale Heyward • Frederick A. and Sophie S. Hoffer Memorial • Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Hoefer • Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Columbia • Theodore Jervey Hopkins, M.D., Memorial • J.W. Hunt and Company • James Edwin Hunter, Jr., Memorial • Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Jefferies, Jr. • Ruben C. and Alice R. Johnson • Lola E. Johnston Memorial • Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Jones • Dr. Allen Izard Josey

The Junior League of Columbia, Inc. • Elmira de Graffenried Keenan Memorial • Erin Spence Kohn • Lafaye, Fair, Lafaye and Associates • Dr. and Mrs. M. Tucker Lafayette, Jr. • Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Langley • Mrs. Caroline Adams Le Conte Memorial • Miss Evelyn Le Conte Memorial • Louis Le Conte Memorial • Mr. and Mrs. Burke Mayor Lemmond Memorial • Mr. and Mrs. F.V. Levantis, Jr. • Judge and Mrs. Harry M. Lightsey • Dr. and Mrs. Guy Fleming Lipscomb Memorial • Mr. and Mrs. Guy Fleming Lipscomb • Lee Alexander Lorick Memorial • Mrs. and Mrs. George Duncan Lott • Mrs. John C. Lott • Mary Lowe, Inc. • Alva Icore and Mary Sumter Lumpkin Memorial • Lyles, Mbissett, Carlisle S. Wolff Architects, Engineers, Planners • McCrory Construction Company • Dr. and Mrs. Martin L. Mc Crory • Dr. and Mrs. George Thomas Mc Cutchen • Mr. and Mrs. Thoams English Mc Cutchen, Jr. • Mc Kesson S. Robbins Drug Company, Columbia Division • Colonel and Mrs. Fitz William Mc Master Memorial • Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Buchanan Mc Master • The W. Eugene Mc Nulty Memorial • The Reverend Doctor and Mrs. William Marcellus Mc Pheeters Memorial • Nellie Watson Madden Memorial • The Market and Varsity Restaurants • Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Martin • Mr. and Mrs. George Glenn Mattehws, Sr. • Dr. and Mrs. Orlando Benedict Mayes III • Dr. and Mrs. Pinkney Venning Mikel Memorial • Dr. Elbert Marston Moffatt Memorial • Austin T. Moore, M.D. • Mrs. Margaret Le Conte Moore • Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Thompson Moore Memorial • Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Thompson Moore • W. Bedford Moore, Jr. • Moung Vernon Life Insurance Company • The Reverend Hugh Roderick Murchison, D.D. Memorial • James Bryson Murphy Memorial • Mr. and Mrs. William J. Murray, Jr. • Dr. and Mrs. William Jacob Murray Memorial • The New South Life Insurance Company • Noland Company • Dr. Robert D. Ochs • Mr. and Mrs. William Micahel Otis Memorial • Mrs. H.F. Owens • The Palmetto Garden Club of South Carolina • Palmetto Quarries • Palmetto State Life Insurance Company • The Charles W.Parker Family • Mrs. Paula Miller Patrick • William Leonard Perry Memorial • Pet Dairy Division, Pet, Inc. • Bishop Henry D. and Ella Reese Phillips • Dr. and Mrs. Dargan Strouher Pope Memorial • John Julius Pringle, Jr. Memorial • Mr. and Mrs. John Julius Pringle, Jr. • Mrs. Margaret Gibbles Pringle

Pulliam Memorial • Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Mayo Reed, Jr. • Robert Vaux Read • Ida Salley Reamer Memorial • The Rembert Company, Inc. • The Charles Reynolds Memorial • Mrs. S.C. Rhame • George Milton Rhodes Memorial • Mr. and Mrs. Marion Rich Memorial • Alfred Aldrick Richardson Memorial • The Richardson Foundation • Richland County • Richland County Hstorical Society • Mrs. C. Anderson Riley • Roberts, Jennings and Thomas Attorneys at Law • Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wale Robertson Memorial • Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Robertson • Mr. and Mrs. David Wallace Robinson • David Wallace Robinson, Jr. • Mrs. Elizabeth Gibbes Johnson Memorial • Thoams Hugh Robinson Memorial • Toddey Packing Company • Rose-Talbert Paint Company • Rotary Club of Columbia • J. Rubin & Son Company • Thomas Kinkaid Rupp Memorial • Governor and Mrs. Donald S. Russell • Dr. Alfred Scarborough, Jr., Memorial • Security Federal Savings and Loan Association of Columbia • The Seibels Family • Mr. and Mrs. G. Richard Shapto • Mr. and Mrs. Arthur St. Julian Simons • Dr. and Mrs. George W. Smith, Jr. • Mr. and Mrs. John G.B. Smith • Wilbur S. Smith Family • Wilbur Smith Foundation, Inc. • South Carolina Chapter, The American Institute of Architects • South Carolina Electric & Gas Company • The South Carolina Society, Colonial Dames XVII Century • Southern Bell Telephone Company • Standard Savings and Loan Association • The State-Record Company • Sylvan Brothers Jewelers • The James L. Taff Company • Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Taylor • George Coffin and Ellen Elmore Taylor • Taylor Street Pharmacy • Dr. and Mrs. Walter W. Theus • The John C. Thomas Memorial • Mr. and Mrs. Jim Van Metre • Walker Plumbing & Heating Company • Kate H. Wallace • Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson Wells • Eugenia Chills Westmoreland Memorial • The Weston and Brooker Company • White's Department Stores • Mrs. Henry Wiesepape • Charles Coker Wilson Memorial • Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. • Mr. and Mrs. D.M. Winter, Jr. • Lisbeth Wolfe, Inc. • J. Henry Woodward, Jr., Memorial • Edward J. Wright Memorial • Dr. George Henry Yerbst Memorial

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Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Charity & Public Work • Parks & Recreational Areas. A significant historical year for this entry is 1967.

Location. 34° 0.561′ N, 81° 1.765′ W. Marker is in Columbia, South Carolina, in Richland County. It is in Midtown - Downtown. It can be reached from Blanding Street east of Pickens Street, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1616 Blanding St, Columbia SC 29201, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the Midlands.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Deep South.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: A Logical Design (a few steps from this marker); Balancing Old and New (within shouting distance of this marker); Grounded in History (within shouting distance of this marker); A Masterful Design (within shouting distance of this marker); An Evolving Landscape (within shouting distance of this marker); Hallowed Ground (within shouting distance of this marker); Worth Preserving (within shouting distance of this marker); Hampton-Preston Mansion, 1965 / Chicora College Students, ca. 1910 (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Columbia.

Credits. This page was last revised on January 26, 2026. It was originally submitted on January 26, 2026, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 45 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on January 26, 2026, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.