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Soldiers From West Brazos Area Were Among More Than Million Casualties During the Korean Conflict of the Early 1950s
By Tracy Gupton Today is the 73rd anniversary of the signing of the Korean War Armistice agreement. The United Nations...
Cam Ward Way Christened as New West Columbia Road Name
By Tracy Gupton I have lived on a road in West Columbia that bears my name practically my entire life. And I didn't...
Haller Historical Marker Dedication Saturday in Angleton
By Tracy Gupton Nathan H. Haller died at the age of 76 in Houston 109 years ago. He was living in Brazoria not too far...
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 Columbia Roughnecks’ deepest appearance in the high school football playoffs in history at that time, and a native son playing in the NFL championship...
WC Museum Planning Second Runaway Scrape Ball
The Second Annual Runaway Scrape Ball will be held on Saturday, March 21, 2026, at Heritage Hall in West Columbia. The public is invited and encouraged to join members of the Columbia Historical Museum for the big gala in the old gymnasium at what used to be West...
Unity Quilt and Charlie Brown Highlight Feb. 7th Event
The Columbia Historical Museum's First Saturday of the Month program for February 7th at the historic Rosenwald School will inform those in attendance about Charlie Brown, who at the time of his death in 1920 was the wealthiest Black man in Texas. Educating young...
Funeral Tuesday for Former CHM Officer Betty Hodges
Funeral Services for Betty June O'Berry Hodges will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, at C.T. Baker & Sons Funeral Home, 634 South Columbia Drive in West Columbia, Texas, with Pastor Paul Kucera of the Bethel Presbyterian Church of East Columbia...
Bailey’s Light Has Shown Through the Generations
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...
Public Invited to WC Museum’s Annual Meeting
The Columbia Historical Museum invites the public to attend the West Columbia museum's annual meeting tonight. A review of the museum's events and highlights from 2025 will be related to visitors while three new directors will be welcomed to the board of directors....
Dead Men Tell No Tales: Acquittals Were Result of Twin Killings 32 Years Apart That Brought Notoriety to West Columbia Area
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...
Stephen F. Austin Died Near West Columbia in 1836
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...
Rain Puts Damper on Meet Your Ancestors Event
Mother Nature took center stage at this year's Meet Your Ancestors program at Columbia Cemetery. The annual event, co-sponsored by the Columbia Historical Museum and Columbia Cemetery Association, was held November 1, 2025. Ominous dark clouds hovered off in the...
There’s a New Face Welcoming Visitors to the Museum
By Tracy Gupton For a couple months now, visitors to West Columbia's museum have been getting used to a new face working with the volunteers in the old First Capitol Bank building at 247 East Brazos Avenue. The Columbia Historical Museum Board of Directors hired Sally...
Sunday Open House at Museum Slated in WC
The Columbia Historical Museum and historic Rosenwald School will be open for visitors this Sunday afternoon. Those who will be shopping in the stores along East Brazos Avenue in West Columbia Sunday, November 23rd, during the city's annual Christmas Open House...
Veterans Day Salute to Texas Revolution Soldiers
By Tracy Gupton On Veterans Day, November 11, 2025, the Columbia Historical Museum and the Columbia Cemetery Association jointly recognize the bravery and sacrifice of the nine men buried at historic Columbia Cemetery who volunteered to join in the Texians pursuit of...