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Texas Independence Day is Celebrated March 2nd
Texas Independence Day is always on March 2nd, which falls on a Monday this year. On this day 190 years ago, 59...
WC Mayor to Speak at First Saturday Event March 7th
The month of March is International Women's Month in America, and the Columbia Historical Museum will be observing it...
Former Slave Represented Brazoria County in Austin
FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH By Tracy Gupton Nathan H. Haller died at the age of 76 in Houston 109 years ago this...
Texas Independence Day is Celebrated March 2nd
Texas Independence Day is always on March 2nd, which falls on a Monday this year. On this day 190 years ago, 59 delegates at Washington-on-the-Brazos signed the Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico. The adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence on...
WC Mayor to Speak at First Saturday Event March 7th
The month of March is International Women's Month in America, and the Columbia Historical Museum will be observing it at the historical Rosenwald School on March 7th. West Columbia Mayor Laurie Beal Kincannon will be the museum's special guest at the "First Saturday...
Former Slave Represented Brazoria County in Austin
FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH By Tracy Gupton Nathan H. Haller died at the age of 76 in Houston 109 years ago this Friday. He was living in Brazoria not too far from West Columbia when he won a seat in the Texas House of Representatives to represent Brazoria and...
Black Cowboys Made Their Marks in History
Was originally posted Feb 17, 2023 | From The Vault of Texas History | 2 comments 601 Visitors have read this post. By Tracy Gupton Columbia Historical Museum February 15, 2023, was declared Bailey’s Prairie Kid Day countywide by the Brazoria County...
Roughnecks Played in NFL Championship Games
By Tracy Gupton Columbia Historical Museum The year 1957 marked this writer’s birth in January, the year of the West Columbia Roughnecks’ deepest appearance in the high school football playoffs in history at that time, and a native son playing in the NFL championship...
WC Museum Planning Second Runaway Scrape Ball
The Second Annual Runaway Scrape Ball will be held on Saturday, March 21, 2026, at Heritage Hall in West Columbia. The public is invited and encouraged to join members of the Columbia Historical Museum for the big gala in the old gymnasium at what used to be West...
Unity Quilt and Charlie Brown Highlight Feb. 7th Event
The Columbia Historical Museum's First Saturday of the Month program for February 7th at the historic Rosenwald School will inform those in attendance about Charlie Brown, who at the time of his death in 1920 was the wealthiest Black man in Texas. Educating young...
Funeral Tuesday for Former CHM Officer Betty Hodges
Funeral Services for Betty June O'Berry Hodges will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, at C.T. Baker & Sons Funeral Home, 634 South Columbia Drive in West Columbia, Texas, with Pastor Paul Kucera of the Bethel Presbyterian Church of East Columbia...
Bailey’s Light Has Shown Through the Generations
By Tracy Gupton Watching an old rerun of the 1960s Andy Griffith Show recently brought back memories from my youth. Sheriff Andy Taylor was telling a group of young campers that included his son Opie about a Mayberry, North Carolina, ghost story that had been passed...
Public Invited to WC Museum’s Annual Meeting
The Columbia Historical Museum invites the public to attend the West Columbia museum's annual meeting tonight. A review of the museum's events and highlights from 2025 will be related to visitors while three new directors will be welcomed to the board of directors....
Dead Men Tell No Tales: Acquittals Were Result of Twin Killings 32 Years Apart That Brought Notoriety to West Columbia Area
By Tracy Gupton A little more than 30 years separated jury verdicts in Brazoria County murder trials involving the killing of two men in the Columbia area. The common threads sewing the unrelated murders together – in addition to them happening in West Columbia and...
Stephen F. Austin Died Near West Columbia in 1836
By Tracy Gupton Death claimed the life of Stephen Fuller Austin, the man known as “The Father of Texas,” on this date 189 years ago. Pneumonia was the villain. The same malady that took his father from him before Moses Austin could see his dream of colonizing the...