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Former Slave Represented Brazoria County in Austin
FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH By Tracy Gupton Nathan H. Haller died at the age of 76 in Houston 109 years ago this...
Black Cowboys Made Their Marks in History
Was originally posted Feb 17, 2023 | From The Vault of Texas History | 2 comments 601 Visitors have read this...
Roughnecks Played in NFL Championship Games
By Tracy Gupton Columbia Historical Museum The year 1957 marked this writer’s birth in January, the year of the West...
Former Roughnecks Tennis Standout to Join CHS Hall
By Tracy Gupton When Columbia High School inducts four new members of its prestigious Athletics Hall of Honor Friday night at Griggs Field, Teddy DiBlasi will be the youngest of the quartet. DiBlasi graduated high school in 2003 with current Roughnecks Head Football...
Museum Board Member’s Memorial This Saturday
West Columbia Man of the Year Flem Rogers delivering acceptance speech at a past Chamber of Commerce event at Heritage Hall A Celebration of Life for Columbia Historical Museum board member Flem Rogers is scheduled for this Saturday, October 18, 2025, in Bethel...
Hall of Honor Induction Awaits Coach Calvin Phillips
By Tracy Gupton August 17, 2022, was a very sad day for the many friends, classmates, players, students and fellow coaches and educators of Calvin Lee Phillips of Pearland. For that was the day life ended for the 1972 graduate of Columbia High School. Calvin was...
Kim Blank Returns to WC for Hall of Honor Induction
By Tracy Gupton Versatility, hustle, dedication and, most of all, talent, were the trademarks of Kim Welsch when she participated and excelled in multiple sports while attending Columbia High School in the 1990s. The former outstanding soccer, volleyball, cross...
Hall of Honor Induction Awaits Longtime CBISD Trustee, Former Roughnecks Catcher, Quarterback Champagne
By Tracy Gupton When Columbia High School Athletics Director and Head Football Coach Earnest Pena informed a gathering of West Columbia Rotarians recently that Jonathan Champagne would be among a quartet of new additions to the Roughnecks Athletics Hall of Honor in...
Alabama-Coushatta People Will Be Topic of Columbia Historical Museum’s Free October 25th Program
Galen and Marion Williams will be presenting an informative program on the Alabama-Coushatta people at the Columbia Historical Museum on Saturday, October 25, 2025. Their presentation will last from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. and it is free to anyone who would like to attend....
Fundraising Fish Fry Planned Saturday at Museum
The Columbia Historical Museum will be putting on its annual fish fry fundraiser this Saturday, August 30, 2025. Museum volunteers will be serving fried catfish, green beans and potato salad with a dessert in to-go containers beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday along Broad...
WC Resident Participated in D-Day 81 Years Ago
This story was originally posted June 6, 2022, in the West Columbia Museum's "Vault of Texas History" Jun 6, 2022 | From The Vault of Texas History By Benjamin Tumlinson Being removed from Memorial Day by less than a week, the sacrifice of those who...
Hunting Bear at Museum Planned for Friday
The Columbia Historical Museum in West Columbia is planning to have a reading program for children on Friday, June 6, 2025, at the historic Rosenwald School, located directly behind the museum at the intersection of Clay and Broad streets. The reading program will...
Father’s Day Focus of Museum Saturday Program
Local Masons Recognize Columbia Historical Museum
THE COLUMBIA HISTORICAL MUSEUM was recognized "for their great work in preserving our history and being a great part of our community" at the May 29th meeting of the Frontier Masonic Lodge No. 28 in West Columbia. Accepting the Community Grant at the recent meeting...
Memorial Day: Somber Reminder of Those Who Gave All
By Tracy Gupton The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is a prominent national memorial dedicated to the men and women who served in the Vietnam War. The memorial's most striking feature is the wall itself, inscribed with the names of the more than 58,000...