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Museum’s Runaway Scrape Ball Planned April 5th
By Tracy Gupton Our neighboring town of Brazoria's museum has its popular annual Santa Anna Ball. In 2025, some 189...
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...
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...
“Ghosts” Character Angeline Kerr to be Portrayed at Saturday Event at Historic Columbia Cemetery
By Tracy Gupton Halloween 2023. What better day than today to focus on one of the dozen or so stories told by former reference librarian at the Brazoria County Library Catherine Munson Foster in her popular 1977 book, “Ghosts Along the Brazos.” Angeline Caldwell Kerr,...
Mary Bell Was a Columbia Founder, Early Pioneer
By Tracy Gupton Those attending the annual Columbia Historical Museum’s “Meet Your Ancestors” event at Old Columbia Cemetery on Saturday, November 4th, will get to hear first-hand what life was like in the earliest days of Anglo settlements in this area of Texas from...
Underwood’s Portrayal Included in Meet Your Ancestors November 4th at Columbia Cemetery
By Tracy Gupton Rachel Jane Carson Underwood, one of the youngest members of Stephen F. Austin’s “Old 300” Anglo settlers in Texas, is one of five prominent women in local history who will be portrayed at the November 4th Meet Your Ancestors program at historic...
Wagyu Beef Raffle Tickets Being Sold at Museum
A New Year's Eve drawing at the Columbia Historical Museum in West Columbia will determine the two winners of a quarter of freezer ready Wagyu Beef being donated by G4 Ranch owner Dr. Corby Gotcher. Raffle tickets are being sold now at the museum at 247 East Brazos...
WC Museum Hosts Program on Fort Velasco
The Columbia Historical Museum will be hosting a special program Saturday, October 21, 2023, featuring Chris Kneupper discussing "The Forts Velasco: Gone ... but No Longer Lost." The event is free and open to the public. The program will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday. The...
Former Roughnecks’ All Around Athlete Jared Flannel to Join CHS Hall of Honor Friday Night at Griggs Field
By Tracy Gupton Jared Flannel was the workhorse of the Columbia Roughnecks’ back-to-back district championship football teams in 2004 and 2005. Those teams finished 9-2 in consecutive years under Head Coach Brian Lane but made their deepest venture into...
Former Houston Cougars Pitcher Matt Varner Looking Forward to Columbia Roughnecks Hall of Honor Induction Friday
By Tracy Gupton It has been 23 years since Matthew Roy Varner was last in attendance at Griggs Field. He received his high school diploma at the West Columbia football stadium at the end of Columbia High School's 1999-2000 school year. Matt Varner excelled on...
Hall of Honor Welcomes Kathryn Carr in Her 30th Year of Coaching and Teaching at Columbia High
By Tracy Gupton The Roughnecks Athletics Booster Club will be inducting four new members to the local high school's Hall of Honor during halftime ceremonies at the October 6th football game at Griggs Field in West Columbia. This year's inductees will be 1978 graduate...
John Adriance guarded Santa Anna near Columbia, was legislator and prominent merchant, plantation owner
By Tracy Gupton When John Adriance was laid to rest at Old Columbia Cemetery in December of 1903 he had left his mark on the East and West Columbia communities. He had been a soldier in Texas's fight for independence from Mexico, a local merchant and legislator in the...
Columbia Tap Railroad Provided Important Source of Travel During Early Days of Brazoria County
By Tracy Gupton West Columbia Rotary Club members were treated to an interesting history lesson surrounding the pre-automobile days of popular rail travel in southeast Texas this past Wednesday. Edward D. Pettitt II, president of the Rotary Club of Houston Skyline,...