Feb 26, 2024 | From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton When author Ben Vinson III was making routine visits to Brooks Manor Apartments in 1999, it is a good bet most West Columbians had no idea a celebrity was living among them. But the man Vinson, an associate professor of Latin American History at Penn...
Feb 16, 2024 | From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton Robert Dixon would have celebrated his 77th birthday last month. The former longtime West Columbia city councilman passed away at the age of 62 September 29, 2009, at Cornerstone Hospital in Houston surrounded by his loving family. But what a unique...
Feb 12, 2024 | From The Vault of Texas History
By Donna Dues We are pleased to spotlight a prominent figure in our lives who has played a central role in us knowing, understanding and celebrating Black history in this community. Dorothy Pearl Lewis-Fisher is a lifelong resident of West Columbia, a graduate of...
Feb 6, 2024 | From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton Open for tours since 2009, the Columbia Historical Museum’s prized Rosenwald School is now in its 15th year of being available to visitors of the museum as part of their immersion into a world long since gone. The museum at 247 East Brazos Avenue...
Feb 2, 2024 | From The Vault of Texas History
The 1960 Roughnecks varsity football team won a district championship under Head Coach E.S. Golson, boasting a pair of honorable mention All State selections 64 years ago. Both of those All State picks were linemen, seniors Robert Eugene “Bobby” Liles and Kenneth...
Jan 30, 2024 | From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton Long range missiles, drones and devastating bombs are the norm in modern warfare across the globe in the present day. But when the great state of Texas was in its infancy 200 years ago more rudimentary weapons were commonly utilized. Columbia...
