Mar 2, 2026 | From The Vault of Texas History
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...
Feb 25, 2026 | From The Vault of Texas History
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...
Feb 23, 2026 | From The Vault of Texas 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...
Feb 8, 2026 | From The Vault of Texas History
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...
Jan 19, 2026 | From The Vault of Texas History
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...
Jan 6, 2026 | From The Vault of Texas History
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...
