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Learn About Texas Flags Saturday at the Museum
The Columbia Historical Museum's "First Saturday of the Month" programs at the Rosenwald School are primarily directed...
WC Vietnam Vet Remembered Decade After His Death
By Tracy Gupton He was born in the middle of World War II in a small home in the old oil fields near West Columbia. He...
Scrapbook Keeps WCHS Class of 1925’s Memories Alive
By Tracy Gupton I have really enjoyed thumbing through the yellowed pages of the scrapbook put together by Mogene...
Never Forget These Men’s Ultimate Sacrifices
By Tracy Gupton "HE GALLANTLY GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY" is the closing sentence written on a proclamation delivered from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the parents of fallen soldier Charles Frank Ringgold in West Columbia, Texas, in 1944. Private First Class...
First Museum Scholarships Awarded to CHS Seniors
A pair of deserving seniors at Columbia High School were presented $1,000 college scholarships from the Columbia Historical Museum at the West Columbia high school's senior awards program Thursday night. Taryn Fojtik received the Emma Womack Memorial Scholarship from...
International Museum Day celebrated Thursday
Photo by Tracy Gupton Columbia Historical Museum will be hosting a special open house Thursday, May 18th, during regular business hours in celebration of the Brazoria County Museum Alliance’s “International Museum Day.” Posing with the banner that is now on display in...
WCE 4th Graders Enjoy Tour of Museum
Womack’s impact on museum immeasurable
Longtime Columbia Historical Museum director Bill Womack pictured with his grandson Carrson Karl at the West Columbia museum in happier days By Tracy Gupton Hearts are heavy among those of us who serve as members of the Columbia Historical Museum Board of Directors as...
Former Museum President Schwebel Passes Away
Former Columbia Historical Museum President and board member Donna Lyn Schwebel of West Columbia, Texas, passed peacefully next to her husband on April 18, 2023, at their second home in Rockport, Texas. Even though she has been taken away from this world, we're happy...
San Jacinto Battle occurred 187 years ago
The great monument, a huge obelisk, that can be seen miles away from the site near present day La Porte, commemorates the San Jacinto battlefield. On this day, April 21st, in 1836, the Texan army led by General Sam Houston savored the sweet taste of victory over...
New Sign Placed at WC Rosenwald School
Expressions of gratitude go out to Wade Weems for donating the new Rosenwald School sign and to Bill Womack for overseeing the installation of it this week on the grounds of the historic old schoolhouse located at the intersection of Broad Street and Clay Street in...
Local 4th Grader Wins Essay Contest
Photo by Korey Langford West Columbia Elementary School 4th grader Landon Stewart, left, was presented a gift bag containing chocolate candy and a $25 gift card recently from Columbia Historical Museum board member Pat Weeks. Landon’s essay on “How West Columbia Was...
History of Columbia Methodist church, Part 2
By Winston C. Avera Jr. Apparently another location to build a new church had been considered since there is a deed from Anna L. Sharp to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Columbia, conveying lots in Block 15 in Columbia for the purpose of divine...
History of the Methodist church in West Columbia
By Winston C. Avera Jr. Since 1839, there has been a fellowship at Columbia Methodist Church, organized for the worship of God and the service of man. The Columbia United Methodist Church was first organized as a Methodist Society by Rev. Isaac L. G. Strickland in...
Survivor of Goliad Massacre buried in WC
By Tracy Gupton As Texian soldiers routed General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s Mexican troops at the decisive Battle of San Jacinto in April 1836, celebratory shouts of “Remember the Alamo” and “Remember Goliad” rained down on the fallen and fleeing Mexicans. One of...