Lake City-Columbia County Historical Museum

This museum is housed in the restored c.1870 May Vinzant Perkins House. The house was the postwar residence of John Vinzant who served as a sergeant in the 1st Florida Cavalry which fought in the western theater. At the Third ...

Columbia

In September 1836 Columbia, now known as West Columbia, became capital of the Republic of Texas. This took place with the removal of the ad interim government here from Velasco. After the election called by ad interim President David G. ...

Creation of the Province of British Columbia

Création de la Province de Columbie-Britannique

[English]

The province of British Columbia was created on July 20, 1871. Formerly a crown colony established by the union in 1866 of Vancouver Island with the mainland colony of British Columbia, the addition of the ...

Columbiad Cannon – 1850

Last on duty at Fort Point on San Francisco Bay. Grass Valley Women’s Improvement Club arranged with the U.S. War Department for donation to be placed in City Square, now Dow Alexander Park. Transferred from Benicia Arsenal to here in ...

First British Columbia School

On this site Rev. R.J. Staines and wife opened the first British Columbia School in 1849. In the same building of Fort Victoria the first Legislative Assembly met August 12th 1856.

[Plaque below]

This plaque unveiled by Honorable Nancy Hodges, first woman ...

Former Site of Columbia Theological Seminary

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 for Ainsley ...

Original Site of Columbia College

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 ...

Site of Columbia Male Academy

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 until ...

Astronauts of the Shuttle Columbia

In honor of these

astronauts who perished

serving their country in space

on the Shuttle Columbia,

February 1, 2003

Rick D. Husband, Commander

Wiliam C. McCool, Pilot

Michael P. Anderson, Mission Specialist

David Brown, Mission Specialist

Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist

Laurel Blair Salton Clark,

Mission Specialist

Ilan Ramon (Israel), Mission Specialist

Courtesy hmdb.org

Columbia Yacht Club

Founded 1892

During the winter of 1891, a group of Chicago sailors gathered at the home of a bridge tender to discuss the formation of a club dedicated to the sport of sailing. Their idea was to create on the lakefront, ...