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Longtime Roughnecks Coach Derrich Passes Away at 82
By Tracy Gupton Funeral services for former Columbia Roughnecks Athletics Director and Head Football Coach Ed Derrich...
Public Invited to Curator’s Sunday Program at WC Museum About East Columbia’s Role in Texas Independence
Columbia Historical Museum Curator Michael Bailey will be examining the role of East Columbia in early Texas history...
“Bluebonnet” Program for Children Planned Saturday
"The Bluebonnet Trail" will be the focus of this Saturday's children's program at the historic Rosenwald School in...
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...
Rosenwald School to be Honored December 3rd
This year's George Kramig Award will be presented to the Columbia Historical Museum's Rosenwald School at the December 3rd Historical Awards Ceremony at Surfside Beach City Hall. CHM Board President Naomi Smith will accept the award on behalf of the museum and provide...
Nation Shaken by JFK Assassination 60 Years Ago
By Tracy Gupton When I was going through a cabinet at my parents' home following the death of my father in 2001, I came across several stacks of old newspapers that my mother had kept over the years. She preceded my Dad to "her reward," as Granny Daisey Moses used to...
Judge Gupton Was Descendant of Early Local Furniture Maker from Copenhagen, Denmark
By Thurman M. Gupton Editor's Note: Former longtime district judge Thurman Morris Gupton of West Columbia was born on this day, November 11, 1911, 112 years ago in Iago near Boling, Texas. He was the son of Eula Meadows Gupton, a native of Alabama, and former West...
Area Civic Leader Beth Griggs Among Five to be Portrayed at Saturday Meet Your Ancestors Event
By Tracy Gupton West Columbia treasure Beth Griggs was within two months of becoming a centenarian when she died on October 27, 2018. The 99-year-old historian was eulogized at her funeral five years ago at Columbia United Methodist Church by West Columbia Mayor...