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Scrapbook Keeps WCHS Class of 1925’s Memories Alive
By Tracy Gupton I have really enjoyed thumbing through the yellowed pages of the scrapbook put together by Mogene...
Museum’s Runaway Scrape Ball Planned April 5th
By Tracy Gupton Our neighboring town of Brazoria's museum has its popular annual Santa Anna Ball. In 2025, some 189...
Longtime Roughnecks Coach Derrich Passes Away at 82
By Tracy Gupton Funeral services for former Columbia Roughnecks Athletics Director and Head Football Coach Ed Derrich...
Scrapbook Keeps WCHS Class of 1925’s Memories Alive
By Tracy Gupton I have really enjoyed thumbing through the yellowed pages of the scrapbook put together by Mogene Clayton 100 years ago. My fellow Columbia Heritage Foundation board member Karen Rowold Mostyn was kind enough to loan me her grandmother’s book of...
Museum’s Runaway Scrape Ball Planned April 5th
By Tracy Gupton Our neighboring town of Brazoria's museum has its popular annual Santa Anna Ball. In 2025, some 189 years removed from the historic event, the Columbia Historical Museum's Board of Directors is making plans to initiate a similar celebration with hopes...
Longtime Roughnecks Coach Derrich Passes Away at 82
By Tracy Gupton Funeral services for former Columbia Roughnecks Athletics Director and Head Football Coach Ed Derrich will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 7, 2025, at St. John the Apostle Catholic Church, 807 Loggins Drive, in West Columbia. Ed, who is a former...
Public Invited to Curator’s Sunday Program at WC Museum About East Columbia’s Role in Texas Independence
Columbia Historical Museum Curator Michael Bailey will be examining the role of East Columbia in early Texas history in general and more specifically the local community's role in the Texas War for Independence when he speaks on the subject at a special program this...
“Bluebonnet” Program for Children Planned Saturday
"The Bluebonnet Trail" will be the focus of this Saturday's children's program at the historic Rosenwald School in West Columbia. The Columbia Historical Museum continues its free "First Saturday of the Month" events for children on March 1, 2025, with another...
March 2nd Event at Museum Focuses on East Columbia
Rogers Was Treasure Trove of Historical Knowledge
By Tracy Gupton Board members of the Columbia Historical Museum are struggling to come to terms with the sudden loss of our friend and fellow board member Flem Rogers. His absence from our lives, his presence at our monthly meetings, and his guidance in all matters...
Viola Funeral Home in Business for Nearly 90 Years
By Tracy Gupton Columbia Historical Museum Snow’s Cleaners opened for business in West Columbia in 1920, a few years before Chesney’s began selling jewelry on main street in 1924 in the Brazoria County town that was once the first capitol of the Republic of Texas in...
Dixon Was Brazoria County’s First Black Mayor
By Tracy Gupton Robert Dixon would have celebrated his 78th 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...
Tuskegee Pilot’s Career Highlighted at Museum
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...
Holy Trinity Choir to Perform Saturday at Museum
The Reverend Anthony Hall will be bringing his Holy Trinity Church Choir to the Rosenwald School at the Columbia Historical Museum Saturday, February 15th. The public is invited to attend this free program sponsored by your local museum. The choir will be singing...
Former Slave Represented Brazoria County in Austin
FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH By Tracy Gupton Nathan H. Haller 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 Matagorda counties, thus becoming one of the few Black Texans to...