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...
Dec 27, 2025 | From The Vault of Texas History
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...
