Historic Columbia

Historic Columbia is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving Columbia and Richland County's historic and cultural heritage.

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Mann-Simons Site

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Woodrow Wilson Family Home

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Let's Go!

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Modjeska Monteith Simkins House

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Modjeska Monteith Simkins House - Photo Gallery

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This photo gallery of the Modjeska Monteith Simkins House contains the following shots: Portraits of Modjeska Monteith Simkins. Inside the exhibit “An Advocate of the People” inside the home. A wall...

"Rise Up" by M. Greene | Modjeska Monteith Simkins House

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Mahkia Green, a Columbia based filmmaker shows parallels between the protesters of the past, with those fighting for social justice today in her film, "Rise Up."

Before Brown: Organizing for Equal Opportunities | Modjeska Monteith Simkins House

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Modjeska Simkins discusses the lack of basic amenities, and financial problems of the three room school house where her mother and sister worked.

Modjeska Monteith Simkins House

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Built between 1890 and 1895, this one-story cottage was home to Modjeska Monteith Simkins, considered "the Matriarch of Civil Rights activists of South Carolina," from 1932 until her death on April 5...

3D VR - Modjeska Monteith Simkins House | Let's Go

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Woodrow Wilson Family Home | Let's Go!

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The Woodrow Wilson House in Columbia is the only museum in the nation dedicated to telling the story of Reconstruction. Reconstruction - the period after the end of the Civil War - remains one of the...

Mann Simons Site | Let's Go!

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The Mann-Simons Site, home to the same entrepreneurial African American family for nearly 130 years, traces the journey of Columbia’s African American community from enslavement through urban renewal...

3D VR - Mann-Simons VR | Let's Go!

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3D VR - Woodrow Wilson Family Home | Let's Go!

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Located on 1705 Hampton Street, in historic downtown Columbia, South Carolina, this is the home where President Woodrow Wilson spent four years of his childhood. The house was built in 1871, during...