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Brave Tuskegee Airmen Like Virgil Richardson Receive Special Day of Recognition in March from Texas Governor Abbott
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day on May 5, 2025, during Texas's 89th...
Survivor of Goliad Massacre Buried at Local Cemetery
By Tracy Gupton As Texian soldiers routed General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s Mexican troops at the decisive Battle...
Museum Honors Runaway Scrape with Ball Saturday
The Second Annual Runaway Scrape Ball hosted by the Columbia Historical Museum will be held at West Columbia's...
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...