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Dr. Queen Among Medical Professionals Being Portrayed in Saturday Meet Your Ancestors Event at Columbia Cemetery
By Tracy Gupton He was born in West Virginia and was a resident of West Columbia at the end of his life. Dr. Robert...
Veterinarian Loggins Featured in 2024 Museum MYA Event
By Tracy Gupton Longtime West Columbia veterinarian Burch Loggins served as president of the Columbia-Brazoria school...
Bells’ Son-In-Law Among Doctors Brought to Life at November 2nd Meet Your Ancestors Event at Old Columbia Cemetery
By Tracy Gupton Just a few years after Texas won its independence from Mexico at the Battle of San Jacinto in April of...
Renowned artist painted museum’s mural
Photo courtesy Columbia Historical Museum. “Columbia, The First Capitol of Texas” mural painted by George E. Shackelford was commissioned by the directors of the First Capitol State Bank and unveiled at the grand opening of the bank on July 22, 1950. By Benjamin...
Kittie Nash Groce: colorful, resilient rancher and socialite
By Tracy Gupton A speaker summed it up perfectly when addressing the role Kittie Nash Groce played during her illustrious lifetime in the quaint community of West Columbia, Texas. On May 3, 1958, at a memorial appreciation dinner in Kittie’s honor, the speaker...
Columbia Rosenwald School celebrates 20 years of care from museum
Interpretive Center offers tours of 100-year-old, fully-restored building Cindi Ericson gave the child a small slate and a piece of chalk and asked her to write her name. Writing your name with chalk - such a small thing, but the child’s smile was big, and so was...
Dance family produced guns superior to Colt pistols
By Tracy Gupton Greene County, Alabama, had been home for most of the Dance family members who would eventually make a name for themselves in Brazoria County history. First cousins James Henry Dance and James Watkins Dance came to Texas on horseback in 1848 from...
Old 300 buried in Historic Columbia Cemetery
By Tracy Gupton Columbia Historical Museum Board Member "The Old 300" refers to settlers in Stephen F. Austin's original colony in the Mexican province of Texas. Historic Columbia Cemetery in West Columbia is the final resting place of a handful of those whose...
Stephen F. Austin Issued Some Native Tribes Passports 
By Christina M. DeWitt Columbia Historical Museum Board Member Since I was a child, I’ve always been a darker shade from others. One of my first memories was visiting my great grandmother’s house in Oklahoma. She lived in a small town down the road from the Cherokee...
Ima Hogg: A Classy Lady, Texas Style
By Ben Tumlinson When I was a boy, I used to snicker when I heard her name. As an adult with four daughters of my own, I often pondered what possessed a father to name his daughter, “IMA HOGG”. Well, I am no longer in the dark. According to a collaborative article...
Texans Remember the 186th Anniversary of Goliad Massacre
Goliad re-enactment: 36th Annual Goliad Massacre and Living History Program -Reenactors and Living Historians from across Texas gather at Presidio La Bahia to recreate the final days of Col. Fannin’s command. The event will be March 26 and 27th. For more information,...
Women, children ran for their lives ahead of Mexican Army
By Susan Avera Holt Columbia Historical Museum Board Member Illiterate, alone in the world, and a mother and widow at 22-years old, Susanna Dickinson survived the horrors of the Alamo only to be interrogated by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and sent on an errand...