A fine example of the classic style in Southern domestic architecture. Built in 1820, probably after a design of Robert Mills. For almost one hundred years the home of the DeBruhl and Marshall families. — — Map (db m28629) HM
The second oldest building on campus, DeSaussure was designed to be a residence hall. It was originally called Old North Building and mirrors its predecessor, Rutledge College. DeSaussure was damaged by a severe earthquake in 1811, and the west . . . — — Map (db m168688) HM
Similar to the interior of their house, the Wilsons' yard was separated into public and private areas. The front garden featured a formal and ornamental landscape style intended for visitors and passersby. Private, utilitarian needs were met behind . . . — — Map (db m134996) HM
Symbolizing the strength and endurance of South Carolinians, these Palmetto trees commemorate the Columbia trained Doolittle Raiders whose courage and patriotism in the early hours of World War II rallied
a beleagured nation to save Western . . . — — Map (db m113534) HM
On this site stood Howard School, a public school for blacks established after the Civil War. By 1869 there was a two-story frame building large enough for 800 pupils. Partially funded by the Freedmen's Bureau, the school reportedly was named for . . . — — Map (db m30254) HM
First Lutheran congregation in Columbia. Church dedicated in this square in 1830 was burned by Union troops in 1865. It was rebuilt 1870, partly through aid of northern Lutherans, and used for Sunday School after present church was completed in 1931. — — Map (db m28073) HM
Named for Stephen Elliott, first president of the Bank of the State of South Carolina and noted botanist. Elliot College, a residence hall, was one of the first historic Horseshoe buildings to undergo extensive remodeling under the Horseshoe . . . — — Map (db m22241) HM
This street , originally named Upper Street, was the northernmost street in the original Columbia plan. The plan of the city depicted an area two miles square divided into lots of one-half acre; eight acres were reserved for erecting public . . . — — Map (db m226622) HM
(Front text) The Fair-Rutherford House, a Greek Revival cottage, stood here from ca. 1850 until it was demolished in 2004.
Built for Dr. Samuel Fair, it passed through several owners before 1905, when William H. Rutherford (1852-1910) . . . — — Map (db m58789) HM
Congregation organized 1809. Original church, built 1811 on Sumter Street corner, was burned Feb. 17, 1865 by Union troops who mistook it for the present church, built 1859, where the Secession Convention had met Dec. 17, 1860. Because of . . . — — Map (db m29209) HM
First congregation organized in Columbia (1795). The churchyard, allotted as a public burying ground in 1798, was granted to this church 1813. Here are buried: D.E. Dunlap, first pastor; Chancellor H.W. DeSaussure; Jonathan Maxcy, first President . . . — — Map (db m29042) HM
(Upper Medallion)
National Register of Historic Places
First Presbyterian Church
South Carolina
Department of Archives
and History
(Lower Medallion)
American Revolution Bicentennial
* Richland County Committee * . . . — — Map (db m32312) HM
Men who served in the
Confederate States Army
from the congregation of
The First Presbyterian Church
Columbia, South Carolina
1861-1865
Dedicated to those who died
in gratitude to those who served
[List of 64 names] . . . — — Map (db m46440) HM
Imagine starting your own restaurant. That is what Agnes' son, John Lucius Simons [b. 1859 - d. 1925(?)], did in 1891 when he built a 14 x 14-foot building beside his mother's house that he
operated as a lunch counter. His menu options included . . . — — Map (db m238113) HM
Founded 1828 by Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina and Georgia. Located here 1831. Moved to Decatur, Georgia 1925. Woodrow Wilson's father and uncle were among faculty members. Central building, erected 1823, was designed by Robert Mills as home . . . — — Map (db m28842) HM
This street was named for Charlestonian Christopher Gadsden, member of the 1759 Cherokee expedition, the
Commons House of Assembly, and the two Continental and Provincial congresses. He also served in several General Assemblies. During the . . . — — Map (db m28983) HM
• In 1700 the Congaree Indians encounter explorer John Lawson’s party as it makes its way up the Congaree River. • Columbia is chosen as the capital of South Carolina. In 1855 construction of the State House begins. • The effects of Civil War . . . — — Map (db m193108) HM
Sacred to the Memory of
George Elmore
who through unmatched
courage, perseverance, and
personal sacrifice brought
the legal action by which
black people may participate
in South Carolina democratic
party primary elections -- . . . — — Map (db m58187) HM
During the occupation of Columbia by Sherman's army February 17-19, 1865, soldiers brickbatted this statue and broke off the lower part of the walking cane. — — Map (db m46635) HM
The first bridge at Gervais Street was a covered wooden structure built in 1827 by the Columbia Bridge Company. It remained until 1865 when Confederate soldiers burned it and other bridges to delay the
advance of Sherman's troops. Rebuilt in . . . — — Map (db m7365) HM
Named for Maj. Wade Hampton Gibbes (1837-1903) prominent Columbian who owned much of the land to the east, Gibbes Green consisted of an area of land bounded by Pendleton, Bull, Pickens, and Greene Streets. Acquired by S. C. College by 1838, the land . . . — — Map (db m29169) HM
States-rights advocate Adley Hogan Gladden, who lived here before the Civil War, served Columbia as postmaster 1841-45 and was later bursar of S. C. College, captain of the Governor's Guard, and intendant of Columbia 1851-52. In 1847 he assumed . . . — — Map (db m30298) HM
(West face)
Erected By popular subscription A Tribute To the worth and service of N.G. Gonzales, Born August 5, 1858, Died January 19,1903. —–— "Faithful unto death." Gonzales
(North face) A . . . — — Map (db m21926) HM
Built about 1818 by Ainsley Hall. Purchased 1823 by Wade Hampton, I. Inherited by his daughter, Mrs. John S. Preston, 1863. Headquarters of Union Gen. J. A. Logan, 1865; residence of Gov. F. J. Moses 1872-74; Ursuline Convent 1887-90; College for . . . — — Map (db m27999) HM
This street was named for William Harden, a native South Carolinian. In 1776 he was given command of Ft. Lyttelton near Beaufort by the Second Provincial Congress of which he was a member. In 1781, serving as colonel under Francis Marion, he . . . — — Map (db m21776) HM
Downstream from where the current Gervais Street
Bridge now stands, Dr. Frederick W. Green owned and operated a lumberyard, and ran a grist mill to grind flour and corn. A native of New England, Green came South in the 1830s. Water from the . . . — — Map (db m7362) HM
Erected on the site of an earlier building that had served as the campus dining hall, Harper was part of an extensive mid-century construction program undertaken to accommodate an increase in enrollment. The building was named for William Harper . . . — — Map (db m22236) HM
This building is dedicated in loving memory
to
Henry Disbrow Phillips, D.D.
1882 - 1955
Rector of this parish 1922-1938
Bishop of Southwestern Virginia 1938-1954
Founder and warden of La Grange settlement,
La Grange Georgia an . . . — — Map (db m45391) HM
In 1899, construction on the Lincoln Street Tunnel, or "cut," began. It was part of Seaboard Air Line Railroad's plan to connect the rail terminal at Sidney Park with a passenger depot and diner at the corner of Lincoln and Gervais streets. From . . . — — Map (db m135000) HM
Established after the Civil War, this public school for blacks was located at the NW corner of Hampton & Lincoln streets by
1869 and was partially supported by the Freedmen's Bureau. It is said the school was named for Oliver O. Howard, . . . — — Map (db m46341) HM
This street was named for Brig. Gen. Isaac Huger, who fought in the Cherokee War of 1760 and during the American Revolution at Stono, Savannah, Siege of Charlestown, Guilford Court House, Hobkirk Hill. Born 1743 at Limerick Plantation in the parish . . . — — Map (db m29214) HM
Named in 1986 by Action of the Richland County Legislative Delegation and Highway Commission in recognition of one of this state's most distinguished citizens. A Civil Rights leader who worked unceasingly for equal rights for all, he helped keep . . . — — Map (db m49771) HM
Israelite Sunday School
The Israelite Sunday School, the first Jewish religious school in Columbia and the seventh in the United States, met in a building on this site until 1865. Founded in 1843 to give the city's Jewish children "an . . . — — Map (db m21925) HM
J. Marion Sims 1813 1883 Where the love of man is there also is love of the art. Hippocrates
(Lower Left): The first surgeon of the ages in ministry to women treating alike empress and slave (Lower Right): He founded the science of . . . — — Map (db m49773) HM
[Northeast Base]:
Inscription:
The Most Distinguished
South Carolinian
of His Time
Plaque
Erected in Grateful Appreciation of
James F. Byrnes
By His Friends in
His Native State and Nation
Executive . . . — — Map (db m50911) HM
[Front]:
The Jefferson Hotel, designed and built by Columbia entrepreneur and contractor John Jefferson Cain (1869-1929), stood here at the corner of Main and Laurel Streets from 1913 until 1968. The hotel (also sometimes called the . . . — — Map (db m21895) HM
This bridge is dedicated to the memory of
Joesph Daniel Sapp (1928-2000). As chair
of the Columbia Development Corporation,
he was instrumental in the development of
the Vista. Elected to the S.C. General
Assembly, he served as an advisor to . . . — — Map (db m45074) HM
Dedicated to the men and women
of South Carolina who served in
The Korean War
25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953
82,000 Palmetto State residents served in what has been called "The Forgotten War". Of that number, 26,000 served in the Far . . . — — Map (db m45073) WM
Congregation originated in the Sabbath School for colored people organized by the First Presbyterian Church 1838, later conducted by the Rev. G. W. Ladson. A chapel for the Negro members of that church was built here 1868. Rebuilt 1896. The title . . . — — Map (db m29385) HM
One of the original streets in the 1786 Columbia plan. Lady Street is thought to have been named for Martha Custis Washington, the new nation's first lady whom South Carolina wished to honor. Lady Washington presided over the President's home, . . . — — Map (db m21791) HM
This street probably takes its name from the cherry laurel (Laurocerasus caroliniana) and the mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia), both of which are indigenous to South Carolina. Laurel Street is one of the original streets in the 1786 plan of . . . — — Map (db m21844) HM
Many consider the 1960s as the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, but the African American struggle for equality began much earlier. Throughout the 20th century, Black South Carolinians fought to bridge the gap between America's democratic . . . — — Map (db m223587) HM
Originally designed as a residence hall, Legare College replaced a library and science building erected on this site in 1817. Legare College was named for Hugh Swinton Legare, a South Carolina College graduate who served as Attorney General of the . . . — — Map (db m22151) HM
Dedicated to you, a free citizen in a free land This reproduction of the Liberty Bell was presented to the people of South Carolina by direction of The Honorable John W. Snyder Secretary of the Treasury as the inspirational symbol of the United . . . — — Map (db m68072) HM
Named for Francis Lieber (1800-1872), one of the most distinguished scholars in the history of the University. A native of Prussia, Lieber migrated to America in 1827 and was elected chair of history and political economy at South Carolina College . . . — — Map (db m22122) HM
Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, for whom this street is named, was a division commander in the Saratoga Campaign. In 1778, he became commander of the Southern Department of the American Army and was in command at Charleston when the city surrendered to the . . . — — Map (db m29217) HM
This cottage, built before 1850, with alterations and additions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, was the home of Celia Mann (1799-1867) and her husband Ben Delane, among the few free blacks living in Columbia in the two decades . . . — — Map (db m28000) HM
This street was named for Francis Marion, one of the three S.C. Partisan Generals during the American Revolution. The guerrilla tactics against the British by Marion and his Partisan band earned for him the name of "Swamp Fox." Congress voted its . . . — — Map (db m120926) HM
(side 1) Dr. Matilda A. Evans (1872-1935), an African American physician, as well as a public health and civil rights advocate, lived here 1928-1935. A graduate of the Schofield School in Aiken and Oberlin College, Evans received her M.D. . . . — — Map (db m134987) HM
South Carolina College professor Maximilian LaBorde lived in this structure during his entire academic career from 1842 to 1873. LaBorde was an alumnus, state legislator, college trustee, and Secretary of State of South Carolina, as well as the . . . — — Map (db m168694) HM
This Greek Revival house was built in 1849 for David and Louisa McCord by slaves from her plantation, Lang Syne, in Fort Motte, S.C. David McCord (1797-1855) was a lawyer, editor, planter, banker, and legislator. Louisa McCord (1810-79) was a . . . — — Map (db m123505) HM
McCutchen House, named for Prefessor George McCutchen, was the second faculty residence built on the South Carolina College campus. It continued in that capacity until 1945 when the University stopped providing faculty housing and the Registrar's . . . — — Map (db m22200) HM
This fountain in honor of
The Carolina Patriots
Who Fought In
The American Revolution
Given by The American Revolution Bicentennial
Richland County Committee
The University South Carolina Society
The Lucy . . . — — Map (db m50961) HM
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 commemorated . . . — — Map (db m53955) HM
To the Memory
of
South Carolina's Generals
Sumter
Marion
Pickens
and
Her Patriot Sons
Who Fought For
Independence
1775 1783
(D.A.R. Medallion) — — Map (db m221647) HM
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
These trees were planted
in memory of the students and alumni
of the University of South Carolina
who gave their lives
for their country and humanity
on the Mexican Border and in the World War . . . — — Map (db m46173) HM
This Italianate-style home was built c. 1872 for Theophilus and Virginia McKee Minton. The Mintons were prominent African American residents of Columbia during the era of Reconstruction. They were married in 1870. Their son, Henry McKee Minton . . . — — Map (db m223593) HM
This house was for sixty years the home of Modjeska Monteith Simkins (1899-1992), social reformer and civil rights activist. A Columbia native, she was educated at Benedict College, then taught high school. Director of Negro Work for the S.C. . . . — — Map (db m36015) HM
(Front text) Nathaniel J. Frederick (1877-1938), educator, lawyer, newspaper editor, and civil rights activist, lived here from 1904 until his death. This house was built in 1903 by Cap J. Carroll, a prominent businessman and city official . . . — — Map (db m56499) HM
(Front text) The North Carolina Mutual Building was built in 1909 by the N.C. Mutual and Provident Association, a black-owned
life insurance company with an office here until the mid-1930s. Built as a two-story commercial building, with a . . . — — Map (db m56496) HM
The Convention
of the
people of South Carolina
which adapted an
Ordinance Of Secession
at Charleston,
December 20, 1860
first met in this church
at 12 o'clock M.[sic]
December 17, 1860
and . . . — — Map (db m28950) HM
This land was purchased in 1854 by the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church as the site of Columbia Female College, Chartered by S. C. General Assembly Dec. 21, 1854. Classes were held from 1859 to 1865. The college survived . . . — — Map (db m28763) HM
In 1886, chiefly through the efforts of D. B. Johnson, first superintendent of Columbia public schools, Winthrop Training School, later Winthrop College, was started here in a small brick building which had been the chapel of Columbia Theological . . . — — Map (db m28021) HM
(side 1)
Founded in 1900 as the S.C. State Teachers Association, and known from 1918-1953 as the Palmetto State Teachers Association, the Palmetto Education Association (PEA) was a state-wide professional association for African American . . . — — Map (db m223427) HM
[East Face]
South Carolina To her sons of the Palmetto Regiment Who fell in the War with Mexico Anno Domini 1847.
[West face]
Colonel Pierce Mason Butler.
Lieut. Col. James Polk Dickinson.
Capt. Le Roy Secrest.
First . . . — — Map (db m81693) HM
Early homes for wealthy Columbians featured support buildings, or dependencies, including kitchen houses, carriage houses and stables, barns, and even greenhouses (outlined in yellow). Separate kitchen buildings offered fire protection for the main . . . — — Map (db m134968) HM
In order to know about aspects of the Wilsons' former house that no longer remain, researchers turned to oral history, maps, pictures and archaeology. Behind the house once stood a two-story kitchen building, a chicken coop, an outhouse, a barn and . . . — — Map (db m134997) HM
Pinckney College, constructed in 1837, honors a prominent South Carolina family.
Notables members include Charles Pinckney (1757-1824), who served as South Carolina governor and U.S. senator. He authored the "Pinckney Draft" at the Federal . . . — — Map (db m22124) HM
This building replaced the first faculty residence
on campus which was destroyed by fire in 1854.
Designed by P.H. Hammarskold, the presidents house
introduced the Regency Style of Architecture to
Columbia. It served as a faculty residence . . . — — Map (db m62590) HM
Historically, owning a home provided a measure of freedom and security while giving the owner a sense of pride and respect. This was particularly true for Columbia's free black population, many of whom once had been legally enslaved. The property . . . — — Map (db m238112) HM
(Front) This warehouse was built in 1913 as the schoolbook depository for the R.L. Bryan Company. The company, founded in 1844 by R.L. Bryan (1823-1900) and his brother-in-law James J. McCarter (d. 1872), was originally a bookstore and . . . — — Map (db m29752) HM
Randolph Cemetery, founded in 1871, was one of the first black cemeteries in Columbia. It was named for Benjamin Franklin Randolph (1837-1868), a black state senator assassinated in 1868 near Hodges, in Abbeville County. Randolph, a native of . . . — — Map (db m29315) HM
Front
The honorary designation of Harden Street and installation of markers in the name of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. recognizes the achievements of a man who inspired the world to embrace equality and non-violence to . . . — — Map (db m223467) HM
Professor of philosophy, scholar, librarian, and law graduate of the Reconstruction-era University of South Carolina. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Boston, Greener attended preparatory school at Oberlin College and Phillips Academy, Andover. . . . — — Map (db m168649) HM
This mall is named in honor of
Richard Richardson 1704 - 1780
Brigadier General of militia in the American
Revolution, Member of the First and Second
Provincial Congresses, Commander of the
1775 Snow Campaign, and ancestor of six . . . — — Map (db m40624) HM
One of the original streets in the 1786 Columbia plan. Richland Street was probably named after Richland County, which had been so designated by an act of the General Assembly in 1785. By November 1786, two town commissioners, Alexander Gillon and . . . — — Map (db m21847) HM
First building completed
originally known as South,
Named for John Rutledge.
Burned and rebuilt 1855.
Library first housed here.
Clariosophic and Euphradian
Literary . . . — — Map (db m62596) HM
Rutledge College was the first first building to be erected at
South Carolina College. At that time it served as Residence
Hall, Lecture Hall, Chapel, Library, Faculty Housing and
Laboratory. Rutledge College was named for John and
Edward . . . — — Map (db m62638) HM
On June 22, 1954, Sarah Mae Flemming, a 20-year-old African American native of Lower Richland, boarded a public bus operated by the South Carolina Electric and Gas Company. When a seat became available near the "whites only" section, Flemming sat . . . — — Map (db m223586) HM
[Front of Marker]:
This depot, built by the Seaboard Air Line Railway
in 1904, was the third passenger depot built in
Columbia, following the South Carolina Railroad
Depot on Gervais St., built about 1850, and the
Union Station on Main . . . — — Map (db m232438) HM
Camden and Cheraw will "in effect become suburbs of this city... through the construction of the new Seaboard Rail Line. The State May 10, 1900.
The Blue Marlin occupies the former Seaboard Air Line Railway Station, which served . . . — — Map (db m83075) HM
The new Seaboard Railway Station "will be a daisy." The State editorial, May 31, 1904
Completed in early summer 1904, the Seaboard Air-Line Railway Station (now the Blue Marlin) was built by J.P. Pettijohn and Co. of Lynchburg, Va. for . . . — — Map (db m83076) HM
This building is a City of Columbia Historic Landmark
Seegers-Habenicht Building
1873
Built by Columbia tycoons John Seegers & C.C. Habenicht, used as a saloon
The National Register of Historic Places
South Carolina Department of . . . — — Map (db m238065) HM
(Front text)
This house, listed in the National Register of Historic Places and probably built during the last decade of the 18th century, is one of the few remaining houses from this era in Columbia. It was purchased prior to 1860 by the . . . — — Map (db m30419) HM
The South Carolina General Assembly created Columbia as the state's capital city in 1786, and Senate Street was named for the upper house of that legislative body. In 1790, the General Assembly, which designated that the town be located on the . . . — — Map (db m21873) HM
The Mann-Simons property featured a building on this spot by the 1870s or 1880s. Represented by this steel frame structure, the building first contained shoe and furniture repair shops. In 1903, John Lucius Simons [b. 1859 - d. 1925 (?)] turned . . . — — Map (db m238110) HM
February 16, 1865 Sherman’s Artillery, from the hills on the south side of the Congaree, got the range of the city by firing on this building then under construction, registering six hits which are separately marked by stars. — — Map (db m67773) HM
During the Federal occupation of Columbia February 17-19, 1865 commanding General William T. Sherman had his headquarters here. — — Map (db m223595) HM
(Front) 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 . . . — — Map (db m54970) HM
In this square stood the home of Colonel Abram Blanding (1776-1839) for whom this street was named. He was first principal, Columbia Male Academy 1798, a noted lawyer and philanthropist, ably served the state on Board of Public Works 1819-28. . . . — — Map (db m28813) HM
Authorized by legislature 1792, the Columbia Female Academy was located here from about 1820 to 1883, when this property was leased to Columbia Public School Commissioners, two of whom still represent the Academy Board. The remodeled academy . . . — — Map (db m28042) HM
Described as "Collegiate Italian Renaissance" in style, this school was designed by J. Carroll Johnson, of Urquhart and Johnson, in Columbia. The cornerstone was laid in 1915 with Gov. Richard I. Manning as a featured speaker. Final classes were . . . — — Map (db m28043) HM
Trustees appointed by legislature 1792 were incorporated 1795 and served as trustees for male and female academies. School located here 1827 on land given by Gov. John Taylor. Though publicly endowed, the school was conducted as a private academy . . . — — Map (db m28684) HM
On this corner stood the home of Dr. Robert W. Gibbes (1809-66) distinguished physician, scientist, historian, editor, antiquarian; Surgeon General of South Carolina 1861-65. The house with his notable library, art treasures and scientific . . . — — Map (db m35612) HM
On this spot stood the original President's House completed
in 1807. The house served as the residence of every University president from Johnathan Maxcy to William S. Currell. It was the site of a variety of University . . . — — Map (db m62715) HM
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