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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...
“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,...
Minnie Black Taught School Here for 40 Years
By Tracy Gupton It was on this day 64 years ago that the final chapter in the book of life for retired school teacher Minnie Pearl Wright Black was closed. The Arkansas native died on September 15, 1959, at the age of 85. Minnie Black had taught primarily fourth and...
WC Rehabilitation Center Undergoing Facelift
By Tracy Gupton January 2, 2024, has been set as the target date for the reopening of the Kittie Nash Groce Memorial Rehabilitation Center in West Columbia. But much work must be done in a relatively short period of time if that goal is to be achieved. Trustees of the...