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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...
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...
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...
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...
Saturday Open House Puts Spotlight on Alumni of Old Charlie Brown High School at Rosenwald School
The final Saturday in February has been slated for a mini-reunion of former Charlie Brown School students at the historic Columbia Rosenwald School in West Columbia. February is Black History Month and the Columbia Historical Museum has been hosting special events...
Rosenwald School to Host Doc Rogers March 2nd
On Saturday, March 2nd, a musical tradition returns to the Columbia Historical Museum. Come celebrate Texas Independence Day with Doc Rogers and his musical program, "Texas Our Texas." The evening begins at 6 p.m. with seating and refreshments at the Columbia...
Dixon Was Brazoria County’s First Black Mayor
By Tracy Gupton Robert Dixon would have celebrated his 77th 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...
Babe Fisher Takes Pride as Local Historian
By Donna Dues We are pleased to spotlight a prominent figure in our lives who has played a central role in us knowing, understanding and celebrating Black history in this community. Dorothy Pearl Lewis-Fisher is a lifelong resident of West Columbia, a graduate of...
Rosenwald School WC Museum’s Main Attraction
By Tracy Gupton Open for tours since 2009, the Columbia Historical Museum's prized Rosenwald School is now in its 15th year of being available to visitors of the museum as part of their immersion into a world long since gone. The museum at 247 East Brazos Avenue in...
Former Roughnecks Great Passes Away at 81
The 1960 Roughnecks varsity football team won a district championship under Head Coach E.S. Golson, boasting a pair of honorable mention All State selections 64 years ago. Both of those All State picks were linemen, seniors Robert Eugene “Bobby” Liles and Kenneth...
West Columbia Museum Recognizing Black History
Every Saturday in the month of February will feature special displays and programs that put the spotlight on Black community leaders from the West Columbia area's past at the Columbia Historical Museum, 247 East Brazos Avenue. Columbia Historical Museum Board...
Early Texas Weaponry Topic of Rogers’ Presentation
By Tracy Gupton Long range missiles, drones and devastating bombs are the norm in modern warfare across the globe in the present day. But when the great state of Texas was in its infancy 200 years ago more rudimentary weapons were commonly utilized. Columbia...
‘Father of Texas’ Died Here 187 Years Ago
By Tracy Gupton Death claimed the life of Stephen Fuller Austin, the man known as “The Father of Texas,” on this date 187 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...
Texas Christmas Timeline Through the Years
1599 - A Spanish expedition led by Juan de Oňates introduces First Nations to Christmas near El Paso.1693 - Spanish soldiers under Juan Domínguez de Mendoza cross the Rio del Norte, now called the Rio Grande, on Christmas Day and holds a Mass on Texas soil.1692 -...
Former Mayor Gilbert Honored by SRT Group
By Tracy Gupton Former West Columbia Mayor C.B. "Bubba" Gilbert was posthumously honored with induction into the Sons of the Republic of Texas at a recent meeting of the Stephen F. Austin Chapter 6 of the SRT. A Sons of the Republic of Texas medallion was presented to...