10-Inch Columbiad, Rifled and Banded

Captured by Confederates at Fort Sumter in 1861, this weapon was later repaired and rifled by Eason Brothers of Charleston. With an iron band and brass trunions, it presents an unique appearance. This weapon returned to service at Battery Bee ...

Israelite Sunday School / Columbia's First Synagogue

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 ...

The "Columbiad" Cannon

10 inch

This 10 inch Columbiad Cannon defended Charleston Harbor from 1863 until the end of the War Between the States in 1865. It has a smooth, non-rifled, bore and fires a 10 inch round ball weighing 104 pounds. The markings ...

Columbia

In 1726 Quaker John Wright built a log house in an area first granted to George Beale by William Penn 25 years earlier. Wright established a ferry at this natural crossing point on the Susquehanna in 1730. Originally known as ...

Columbia - First Capital of The Republic of Texas

In 1836 and 1837, the town of Columbia (Now West Columbia) served as the capital of the Republic of Texas. Josiah Hughes Bell, a colonist with Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, surveyed and platted Columbia in 1824 to serve ...

Shelling of Columbia

Prior to the capture of Columbia by Gen. William T. Sherman, Federal artillery shelled the city on February 16, 1865, from the batteries on this hill and in the road at this end of the Congaree River bridge. Shots were ...

Columbia Restaurant

Founded 1905

The Columbia is the oldest and largest Spanish restaurant in the United States. It was opened as a cafe for cigarmakers by Casimiro Hernandez, Sr. When he died in 1930 his son Casimiro Hernandez, Jr. then brought it to ...

Columbia Canal

Completed 1824. Important link in the

system of waterways transporting

freight between the up country and

Charleston. Supplanted by railroads for

transportation after 1850. Leased to

Confederate Government to run powder

works. Enlarged 1880-95 and since sold

to seccessive electric power companies.

Marker is on Gervais Street ...

United States Space Shuttle Columbia

1 February 2003

[Obverse:]

Brown. Clark. Chawla. Anderson. Ramon. Husband. McCool.

STS 107

In memory of the crew of

United States Space Shuttle Columbia

1 February 2003.

[Reverse:]

In memory of the crew of the United States Space Shuttle Columbia, 1 February 2003.

[captions beneath crew's picture:]

Mission Specialist, David ...

Columbia City Hall

The National Register

of Historic Places

South Carolina

Department of Archives

and History:

Columbia City Hall

Marker is on Main Street near Laurel Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org