On Virginia Street at Olympia Avenue, on the left when traveling south on Virginia Street.
On the western side of Olympia Mill Village is a huge granite quarry that was first worked in the 1880's before the mills were built. Granite from this quarry has been used for 135 years to build roads, airport runways, and other purposes. . . . — — Map (db m238125) HM
On Jim Hamilton Blvd near Airport Blvd, on the right when traveling east.
(Front text)
This hangar, built in 1929 by the Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, was the first building at Owens Field, a municipal airport then 3 mi. S of the city limits. Curtiss-Wright built and operated numerous airports across America for . . . — — Map (db m55106) HM
On Devine Street near Sims Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
From early days horse racing was a favorite sport in Columbia and many famous horses were bred on neighboring plantations. Columbia Jockey Club was organized by Col. Wade Hampton II and Col. Richard Singleton in 1828. Congaree Race Course was . . . — — Map (db m30213) 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
On Devine Street, on the right when traveling west.
(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
On Woodrow Street at Blossom Street, on the right when traveling south on Woodrow Street.
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
On Woodrow Street at Heyward Street, on the right when traveling north on Woodrow Street.
In 1896 members of 18 Jewish families assembled to worship at the Independent Fire Company’s station overlooking Sidney Park. Organized as Etz Chayim (Tree of Life), this group’s members embraced Judaism’s Reform branch or liberal movement. In 1907, . . . — — Map (db m123491) HM
On Laurens Street at College Street, on the right when traveling south on Laurens Street.
(side 1)
Alexander Samuel Salley 1871-1961), the historian described as a “walking encyclopedia” of S.C. history, lived here from 1910 until his death. Salley, born in Orangeburg County, was secretary of the S.C. Historical . . . — — Map (db m72734) HM
On Gervais Street (U.S. 1/378) at Barnwell Street, on the right when traveling east on Gervais Street.
This street is named for General John Barnwell, St. Helena's Parish. He was elected to the Provincial Congress of 1775-76 and to the 1776 General Assembly. A captain in the First Provincial Regiment, he was major, colonel and brigadier general in . . . — — Map (db m51236) HM
On Pendelton Street, on the right when traveling west.
(Front text) This house, built ca. 1910 for Columbia businessman John Jefferson Cain (1869-1929), was designed by William Augustus Edwards (1866-1939), a prominent regional architect. Cain, who moved to Columbia in 1899, became one of the . . . — — Map (db m29087) HM
On Gervais Street (U.S. 1) at Gregg Street, on the right when traveling east on Gervais Street.
(Front text)
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
On Gervais Street (U.S. 1/378) at Henderson Street, on the right when traveling east on Gervais Street.
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
On Senate Street just west of Pickens Street, on the right when traveling west.
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
On Senate Street near Barnwell Street, on the right when traveling east.
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
On Gervais Street (U.S. 1) at Pickens Street, on the right when traveling east on Gervais Street. Reported missing.
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 . . . — — Map (db m223594) HM
On Gervais Street (U.S. 1) at Pickens Street, on the right when traveling east on Gervais Street.
(side 1)
Formally organized in 1881 as the S.C. Association of Teachers, the S.C. Education Association established its first permanent headquarters at 1218 Senate St. in 1928. A temporary move to the Univ. of S.C. campus facilitated the . . . — — Map (db m223468) HM
On Senate Street at Bull Street, on the right when traveling east on Senate Street.
(side 1)
Authorized by the S.C. General Assembly in 1965 and constructed 1967-1969, this building was dedicated as the South Carolina State Library on Feb. 18, 1970. It was designed by architects Geiger, Califf, and Player. Funding for . . . — — Map (db m223590) HM
On Blossom Street (U.S. 21/76) at Henderson Street, on the right when traveling west on Blossom Street.
The Woman’s Club of Columbia was founded in 1925 as a civic and social club for local women. In 1941, their first permanent clubhouse was built here on a lot of land provided by Columbia City Council. Members held meetings there as well as . . . — — Map (db m223486) HM
On Blossom Street, on the right when traveling east. Reported missing.
(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 m223485) HM
On Saluda Avenue at Blossom Street, in the median on Saluda Avenue.
In Memory of The Boys of Richland County who made the Supreme Sacrifice in World War II
Erected by the Civic Department of the Woman’s Club of Columbia
Dedicated April 20, 1947 — — Map (db m52272) HM
On Harden Street, on the right when traveling north.
Allen University, chartered in 1880, was founded by the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church. It had its origin in Payne Institute, founded in 1870 in Cokesbury, in Greenwood County. In 1880 the S.C. Conference of the A.M.E. Church voted to . . . — — Map (db m53954) HM
Near Harden Street south of Talor Street (South Carolina Route 12), on the right when traveling north.
Jan 1990 – Apostolic Faith Assembly Church, KY * Jan. 1990 – Asbury Chapel AME Church, KY * Feb. 1990 – Willis Temple Church of God and Christ, AR * July 1990 – Morris Chapel Church, NC * July 1990 – New Hope Church of God in Christ, TN * Aug. . . . — — Map (db m223440) HM
On Hampton Street west of Oak Street, on the left when traveling west.
From 1963 to 1979, this was the office of Dr. Cyril O. Spann (1916-1979), one of the first fully trained African American surgeons in S.C. Born in Chester, Spann fought in World War II and attended nearby Benedict College. After graduating from . . . — — Map (db m219126) HM
On Pine Street at Washington Street, on the left when traveling south on Pine Street.
First Calvary Baptist Church descended from African American congregants who left First Baptist Church following the Civil War. These founding members, like many African Americans at the time, sought greater autonomy by breaking from . . . — — Map (db m123489) HM
On Hampton Street, 0.1 miles east of Harden Street, on the right when traveling east.
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 m219130) HM
On Heidt Street at Lady Street, on the right when traveling north on Heidt Street.
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
On Heidt Street at Lady Street, on the right when traveling north on Heidt Street.
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
On Washington Street, on the right when traveling east.
(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
On Pine Street north of Lady Street, on the right when traveling north.
(side 1)
St. Luke's was the first Episcopal congregation in Columbia established for African Americans. Members began worshipping together in 1871 in a private house. They formally organized in 1873 under the Rev. Benjamin Bosworth . . . — — Map (db m223458) HM
On Hampton Street, on the right when traveling east.
(Front text)
This house, built after 1900, was originally a two-story frame residence with a projecting bay and wraparound porch; a fire in 1989 destroyed the second story. Barrett Visanska (1849-1932), a jeweler, bought the house in 1913. . . . — — Map (db m119157) HM
On Harden Street at Hampton Street, on the right when traveling north on Harden Street.
(Front text) Waverly has been one of Columbia’s most significant black communities since the 1930s. The city’s first residential suburb, it grew out of a 60-acre parcel bought by Robert Latta in 1855. Latta’s widow and children sold the . . . — — Map (db m53953) HM
On Gervais Street, on the right when traveling west.
Waverly Five and Dime) The Waverly Five & Dime, located here until about 1957, was managed 1945-48 by George A. Elmore (1905-1959), the African American plaintiff in a landmark voting rights case soon after World War II. Elmore ran this store . . . — — Map (db m58181) HM
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 Between the States. — — Map (db m30192) HM
On Decker Boulevard, 0.2 miles south of North Trenholm Road, on the right when traveling south.
(side 1)
Dentsville Consolidated School opened at this site in 1926. The brick building was the first school in the newly created Richland Two school district and served students who had previously attended numerous, smaller schools in the . . . — — Map (db m202518) HM
On Main Street (State Highway 764) near Weston Street, on the left when traveling west.
(Front text) Eastover, so named for being “east and over” from Columbia, was a small rural community of the mid-19th century that grew into a town after the Wilmington, Columbia, & Augusta RR completed its line through this area . . . — — Map (db m37364) HM
On Kensington Mansion Driveway at McCords Ferry Road (U.S. 601) on Kensington Mansion Driveway.
(Front text)
This plantation on the Wateree River features a remarkable Italianate Revival house built in 1852-54. Designed by Charleston architects Edward C. Jones and Francis D. Lee, it was built for Matthew Richard Singleton (1817-1854) . . . — — Map (db m33260) HM
On McCords Ferry Road (U.S. 601), on the right when traveling north.
This church, organized by 1835, met first in a brush arbor 1 ½ mi. N., then constructed a sanctuary on this site shortly thereafter. Its first pastor was Rev. Anderson Burns, and its original trustees were Joseph and Robert Collins, Barnes . . . — — Map (db m29316) HM
On Bluff Road (State Highway 48) near State Highway 40-2529, on the right when traveling east.
Named in honor of James Gadsden President of the Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad. Station built here 1840 was the first railroad station in Richland County. A stage line ran to Columbia until 1842 and to Camden until 1848. — — Map (db m29943) HM
On Congaree Road (State Highway 769), on the right when traveling west.
Gov. of S.C. 1854-56, lived near here in his home named Live Oak, which burned ca. 1910. Adams is buried nearby at St. John's Church. — — Map (db m30928) HM
On Fork Church Road (State Highway 40-1314), on the right when traveling west.
(Front text)
This church building was dedicated in May 1884 by Dr. John L. Girardeau. The congregation of 11 members, including 2 elders and 1 deacon, was organized on the Sabbath Day, November 16, 1883 by the Charleston Presbytery. In . . . — — Map (db m43707) HM
On Congaree Road / Air Base Road / Robert H. Morrell (State Highway 769), on the right when traveling west.
Air Base Road
between Old Hopkins Road
and Bluff Road
Named in 1990 by action
of the General Assembly
in honor of
General
Robert Hanly Morrell
lifetime resident of
Horrell Hill
whose military career
spanned 40 years . . . — — Map (db m31981) HM
On Barberville Loop Road, on the left when traveling south.
The Harriet Barber House, the home of
Reverend Samuel Barber and his wife
Harriet McPherson Barber, is significant
for its association with the South Carolina
Land Commission during the late nineteenth
century. Samuel Barber purchased a . . . — — Map (db m38823) HM
On Lower Richland Blvd. near Barberville Loop Road, on the right when traveling north.
(Front text)
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 Commission, established in 1869 to give freedmen and freedwomen the opportunity to own land. . . . — — Map (db m38083) HM
On Lower Richland Blvd. at Hopkins Road-Back Swamp Road, on the right when traveling north on Lower Richland Blvd..
This rural community grew up around the plantation of John Hopkins (1739-1775). Hopkins, a native of Virginia, settled here in 1764. A surveyor and planter, he was later a delegate to the First Provincial Congress of 1775. Between 1836 and 1842, . . . — — Map (db m37547) HM
New Light Beulah Baptist Church was organized in 1867 when 565 African American members withdrew from Beulah Baptist Church. Before the Civil War enslaved people composed the majority of the Beulah congregation. After emancipation they left to form . . . — — Map (db m123496) HM
On Garners Ferry Road (U.S. 76, 378) near Horrell Hill Road (South Carolina Highway 86), on the right when traveling east.
300 yards north is the site of the Richland County Court House built about 1794; abandoned when county courts were abolished 1798. Corn was ground in 1781 for Sumter's army at John Marshall's Mill, on Cedar Creek, ¾ mi. east. There has been a mill . . . — — Map (db m30163) HM
On Broad River Road (U.S. 176) near Sease Road, on the right when traveling north.
The organization date of this Lutheran church is unknown. In 1788, however, Bethlehem and fourteen other churches signed the articles of the "Corpus Evangelicum," an early church supervising body. By 1815, Bethlehem's first known building had been . . . — — Map (db m42197) HM
On Broad River Road (U.S. 176), on the right when traveling north.
Julius Rosenwald, Chicago philanthropist and president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., (1910-1925), helped fund this black school, built 1918. The original two-room structure was named in Rosenwald's honor and the school's curriculum eventually included . . . — — Map (db m42157) HM
On Kennerly Road near Broad River Road (U.S. 176), on the right when traveling south.
St. Paul Church
One of the first black churches after the Civil War, St. Paul AME began as Oak Grove African Methodist Episcopal Church. Local tradition says that the original small congregation worshipped in the 1850s in the "Bush Arbor;" . . . — — Map (db m35996) HM
On Killian Baptist Cemetery Road, on the right when traveling south.
A partial list of soldiers enlisted from this community 1861 ~ 1865 Confederate States of America
Wess Abbott; W. B. Cooper; Wess Cooper; Elihu Davis; Thos. Dent; Robt. Fann; R.W. Fann; Henry Faust; Chas. Grimsley; Ervin Grimsley; Albert . . . — — Map (db m54849) HM
On Clemson Road, on the right when traveling east.
This one-room primary school, built about 1925, stood about 1 mi. E, at the intersection of Killian and Longtown Roads, until 2001. There was a school at Killian (also called Killian’s) as early as 1905. From 1913 to 1948 Killian School had two . . . — — Map (db m43627) HM
On Farrow Road (State Highway 555) near Killian Road, on the right when traveling south. Reported missing.
On February 18, 1865, the day after Federals under Gen. W.T. Sherman occupied Columbia, Gen. Frank Blair ordered units of his XVII Corps to destroy railroad tracks north of the city. Portions of Gen. M.C. Butler’s Confederate cavalry division, . . . — — Map (db m228374) HM
On Griffin Creek Road (State Highway 40-489) at Kingville Road, on the right when traveling south on Griffin Creek Road.
(Front): Kingville, a rural community, was established in 1840 as a station on the Louisville, Cincinnati, and Charleston Railroad, on the line from Charleston to Columbia. In 1848 the S.C. Railroad extended its line north east from here to . . . — — Map (db m43643) HM
On Minervaville Road (State Highway 40-1159) at Cabin Creek Road (State Highway 40-66), on the right when traveling south on Minervaville Road.
Minervaville, between Cabin Branch and Cedar Creek, was an early 19th-century community. Named after the Minerva Academy, founded in 1802 with William J. Bingham as its headmaster, Minervaville appears on Robert Mills’s Atlas of S.C. (1825). It was . . . — — Map (db m38416) HM
On Garners Ferry Road (U.S. 378/76) near Crossing Creek Road (State Highway 40-1117), on the right when traveling east.
Named In Honor
of
Native of Edgefield
County
Longtime Resident of
Richland County
Born 1909 Died 1980
Who during 35 years
as a general contractor
built more than 1,000
miles of roads, streets
and highways
in . . . — — Map (db m44295) HM
On McCords Ferry Road (U.S. 601), on the right when traveling south.
Named in 1979 in honor
of
prominent public spirited
citizen of this section
(Born 1871 Died 1924)
for his many contributions
to highway transportation
During early 1900's he led
several highway location parties.
He personally . . . — — Map (db m30040) HM
On Broad River Road (U.S. 176) near Mt. Olivet Church Road (State Highway 40-2697), on the left when traveling north.
This community, named by 1791 for the springs at the foot of the Stone Hill, included Eleazer's Tavern, a post office, schools, grist mills, and Spring Hill Baptist Church before the Civil War. In February 1865, as the war ended in S.C., Federal . . . — — Map (db m42379) HM
On Kennerly Road (State Highway 40-217) near Pink Daily Road, on the right when traveling north.
Bethlehem Lutheran Church erected its first known building about 350 feet north of here on a 17-acre tract purchased from George Metz in 1817. According to tradition, the church was first called Ellisor Church after people of this name living . . . — — Map (db m45851) HM
On U.S. 601, 2.4 miles south of 2 Rivers Road (South Carolina Highway 267), on the right when traveling south.
(side 1)
Joseph Joyner owned a private ferry on the Congaree River near this site by 1749. John McCord's private ferry succeeded Joyner's by 1757, becoming public in 1766 by statue. A route from Charleston to Camden crossed the river at . . . — — Map (db m100887) HM
On 2081 Dutch Fork Road, on the right when traveling east.
This church, organized in 1762 by German colonists, is one of the first Lutheran congregations in the Dutch Fork region. Incorporated in 1788 as “the German Lutheran Church of Bethel on High Hill Creek,” it first met in a log church 3.5 . . . — — Map (db m123476) HM
On Mount Vernon Church Road south of Wilber Bickley Road, on the right when traveling south.
Site of Mount Vernon Lutheran Church White Rock, S.C. Organized October 1893 Merged with Bethel on High Hill Creek Church to form Bethel Lutheran Church White Rock, S.C. October 1, 1929 — — Map (db m134944) HM
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