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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Richland County, South Carolina
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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 |
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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 |
| | Side 1 Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital, created in 1938 by the merger of two older hospitals, served the black community in Columbia for 35 years. It merged Good Samaritan Hospital, founded in 1910 by Dr. William S. Rhodes and his wife . . . — — Map (db m138127) HM |
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Arsenal Academy, converted from a state arsenal, occupied this square from 1842 to 1865 when Union troops burned all the Academy buildings except Officers' Quarters, erected 1855. Since 1868 this building has been the Governor's Mansion. — — Map (db m28127) HM |
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Richard Winn, for whom this street was first named, was born in Virginia in 1750 and came to South Carolina as a young man. He fought throughout the Revolution (including the battles of Hanging Rock, Fish Dam Fords, . . . — — Map (db m21760) 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 |
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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 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. From . . . — — Map (db m123485) HM |
| | Heidt - Russell House This house, with Greek Revival and Italianate architectural influences, was built about 1879 by William J. Heidt, builder and contractor who managed Heidlinger’s Steam Bakery. The Heidts lived here until 1912. Mary E. . . . — — Map (db m36018) HM |
| | This street is named for Brig. Gen. William Henderson who was in the Third S.C. Regiment at the fall of Charleston in 1780. He was captured, imprisoned, and later exchanged. In 1781, he was wounded while commanding a brigade at the Battle of Eutaw . . . — — Map (db m21741) 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 |
| | Built 1786-1790
James Hoban Architect
Burned By Sherman's Troops
February 17, 1865 — — Map (db m7386) 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 |
| | One of the oldest houses in Columbia; built before 1813, probably by Peter Horry (1747-1815), Colonel in Revolution, Brigadier General of S.C. militia. Later home of John Gabriel Guignard (1751-1822), Surveyor General of S.C., 1798-1802. — — Map (db m29541) 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 |
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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 . . . — — Map (db m57481) HM |
| | In memory of the John H. Rose Family Property located to the north of this marker is part of a farm once belonging to John H. Rose an area pioneer from Fayetteville, N.C. A grist mill and saw mill on property was burned by Gen. Sherman's army. . . . — — Map (db m52370) 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 |
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[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 |
| | This is the site of the home of James Miles Hinton (1891-1970), businessman, civil rights pioneer, and minister. Hinton moved to Columbia in 1939 and was elected president of the Columbia branch of the National Association for the Advancement of . . . — — Map (db m28084) HM |
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[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 |
| | The National Register
of Historic Places
South Carolina
Department of Archives
and History:
Lace House — — Map (db m50929) HM |
| | 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 |
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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 |
| | Wade Hampton, III, born March 28, 1818, was commander of Hampton Legion, 1861, with rank of Colonel; Lieutenant General, C. S. A., 1865; Governor of S. C. 1876-79; U. S. Senator 1879-91. He died April 11, 1902 in this house, given to him in 1899 by . . . — — Map (db m29564) HM |
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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 |
| | 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 |
| | Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley Cooper
Two Rivers Named for Him
Supporter of Political Freedom
Friend of John Locke — — Map (db m50948) HM |
| | First Baron Berkeley of Stratton
Supporter of the Stuarts
Skillful Military Commander
Loyal to the Royal Line
Followed Charles II into Exile — — Map (db m50953) HM |
| | Colonel in the English Civil War
Lord Proprietor of New Jersey
Foreign Military Service
On Privy Council of King
Died at 89, Unmarried. — — Map (db m50940) HM |
| | (Front text) 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 . . . — — 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 |
| | (Front text) Matthew J. Perry, Jr. (b. 1921), lawyer, civil rights pioneer, and jurist, lived in a house on this site as a youth; the house was torn down in 1997. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, then graduated from S.C. State . . . — — Map (db m35789) HM |
| | (Front) This city park, established in 1911, was named for Confederate General Maxcy Gregg (1814-1862). It was one of several parks in Columbia proposed by landscape architect Harlan P. Kelsey of Boston, whose 1905 plan was commissioned by . . . — — Map (db m54965) HM |
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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 . . . — — 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 |
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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 m27997) 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 |
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(Side 1)
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, . . . — — Map (db m138189) HM |
| | (Front text) 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 . . . — — Map (db m36015) HM |
| | (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 . . . — — Map (db m35946) 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 |
| | This square is part of the tract where state fairs were held 1856-61, 1869-1903. The buildings, used 1861-65 for Confederate barracks and hospital, as well as nitre and mining bureau in charge of Joseph LeConte and James Woodrow, were burned by . . . — — Map (db m28022) HM |
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The Olympia Cemetery was established c. 1904 and served the families of mill workers from Capital City, Richland, Granby, and Olympia Mills. The land was set side by W.B. Smith Whaley & Co. When a death occurred the company would provide a . . . — — Map (db m138339) 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 |
| | This sundried brick structure on a stone foundation was a arsenal which produced many guns and edged weapons for the state before and during the Civil War. Destroyed by General Sherman's army in 1865 it was soon rebuilt to manufacture iron works . . . — — Map (db m42724) HM |
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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 |
| | Born in 1902, Paul Redfern at an early age showed a marked mechanical aptitude and excitement for aviation. Shortly after graduating from old Columbia High School in 1923, he built his own airplane and established the city’s first commercial . . . — — Map (db m58991) HM |
| | Philip Simmons, renowned Charleston
blacksmith, designed these wrought iron
entrance gates and they were fabricated
at the Simmons Blacksmith Shop by his
apprentices Joseph Pringle (cousin) and
Carlton Simmons (nephew). The men
forged . . . — — Map (db m50925) HM |
| | This street was named for Andrew Pickens (1739-1817). One of the three S.C. Partisan Generals in the Revolution, he fought in the battles of Cowpens and Eutaw Springs both in 1781. Pickens served fourteen years in the S.C. House of Representatives, . . . — — Map (db m21720) 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 |
| | (Front text) This school, built in 1923 at a cost of $2,500, is one of 500 African-American schools in S.C. funded
in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation from 1917 to 1932. It is a two-room school typical of smaller Rosenwald . . . — — Map (db m46343) 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 |
| | The Quoin-Stones and basement cornice above were crumbled “by the proximity of the fire from the adjacent Old State House” — — Map (db m67776) 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 |
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[Front]:
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. . . . — — Map (db m29315) HM |
| | Front This is the site of Redfern Field, established in 1923 as the first commercial airfield in Columbia. Paul Rinaldo Redfern (1902 ~ 1927?) had shown an early interest in and aptitude for aviation, building his first full-scale airplane . . . — — Map (db m59061) HM |
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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 m47684) HM |
| | (Front text) Richard Samuel Roberts (1880-1936), a photographer who documented individuals, families, and institutions in Columbia’s black community and across S.C., lived here from 1920 until his death. Roberts, a self-taught photographer, . . . — — Map (db m53404) 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 |
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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 |
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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 . . . — — Map (db m123487) 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 m114019) 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 |
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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 |
| | (Front text) In 1890 the Columbia Land and Investment Co. purchased farm land in this area for development, laying out streets and sidewalks in 1893. In 1894 the Columbia Electric Street Railway provided streetcars to the vicinity and built . . . — — Map (db m30391) HM |
| | Shandon Presbyterian Church began as Shandon Mission, which first met in Oct. 1913. By 1915, the Church had acquired title to a lot at the S.E. corner of Wheat and Maple Sts. and was incorporated the next year. The first sanctuary was completed in . . . — — Map (db m123493) 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 m29124) 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 |
| | Of Old French Stock
From the Isle of Jersey
N.C. Cape, County Named for Him
New Jersey Named for His Birthplace
Honored by Charles II — — Map (db m50957) HM |
| | Colonel in English Civil War
Gallant Naval Officer
Retired to Barbados
County Named for Him — — Map (db m50941) HM |
| | Brother of John Berkeley
Governor of Virginia
Loyal to Charles II
Hung Bacon's Supporters
Opposed Schools and Printing — — Map (db m50938) 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 |
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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 |
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