Richland County, South Carolina
Allen University
Alston House
Alta Vista-Camp Fornance-Newman Park Historic District
Arcade Building
Arsenal Hill
Babcock Building, South Carolina State Hospital
Barber House
Bellevue Historic District
Benedict College Historic District
Benson, Florence C., Elementary School
Bethel A.M.E. Church
Building at 1210-1214 Main Street
Building at 1644 Main Street
Building at 1722-1724 Main Street
Building at 303 Saluda Avenue
Byrd, J. A., Mercantile Store
Caldwell-Hampton-Boylston House
Calhoun, John C., State Office Building
Canal Dime Savings Bank
Carolina Life Insurance Company
Carver Theatre
Champion and Pearson Funeral Home
Chapelle Administration Building
Chesnut Cottage
Citadel Shirt Corporation
Claussen's Bakery
Columbia Canal
Columbia Central Fire Station
Columbia City Hall
Columbia Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase II)
Columbia Electric Street Railway, Light & Power Substation
Columbia Historic District I
Columbia Historic District II
Columbia Historic District II (Boundary Increase)
Columbia Mills Building
Columbia Township Auditorium
Confederate Printing Plant
Consolidated Building
Cornell Arms
Cornwell, Harriet M., Tourist House
Curtiss-Wright Hangar
Debruhl-Marshall House
Dovillers-Manning-Magoffin House
Eau Claire Town Hall and Survey Publishing Company Building
Ebenezer Lutheran Chapel
Efird's Department Store
Elmwood Cemetery
Elmwood Park Historic District (Additional Documentation)
Elmwood Park Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Ensor-Keenan House
Evans, Dr. Matilda A., House
Fair-Rutherford and Rutherford Houses
Farmers and Merchants Bank Building
Federal Land Bank Building
First Baptist Church
First National Bank
First Presbyterian Church
Five Points Historic District
Forest Hills Historic District
Good Hope Baptist Church
Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital
Goodwill Plantation
Granby Mill Village Historic District
Greyhound Bus Depot
Grovewood
Hale-Elmore-Seibels House
Hall, Ainsley, House
Hampton-Preston House
Harden Street Substation
Heslep House
Hoffman, George P., House
Hopkins Graded School
Hopkins Presbyterian Church
Horry-Guignard House
House of Peace Synagogue
Kaminer, John J., House
Kensington Plantation House
Kirkland, B. B., Seed and Distributing Company
Koon, John Jacob Calhoun, Farmstead
Kress Building
Lace House
Ladson Presbyterian Church
Leevy’s Funeral Home
Lever Building
Logan School
Lorick, Preston C., House
Lutheran Theological Seminary Building: Beam Dormitory
Mann-Simons Cottage
McCord House
McMaster School
Melrose Heights-Oak Lawn-Fairview Historic District
Miller Brothers Cotton Warehouse
Millwood
Moore-Mann House
National Loan and Exchange Bank Building
North Carolina Mutual Building
North Columbia Fire Station No. 7
Oakwood
Old Campus District, University of South Carolina
Old Shandon Historic District
Olympia Armory
Olympia Mill
Olympia Mill School
Olympia Mill Village Historic District
Olympia Union Hall
Owen Building
Pacific Community Association Building
Palmetto Building
Palmetto Compress and Warehouse Company Building
Pine Grove Rosenwald School
Powell, J. Davis, House
Price, George R., House
Price, Raymond, House
Randolph Cemetery
Richland Cotton Mill
Richland Presbyterian Church
Ruth's Beauty Parlor
Saint Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church
Scott, Claudius, Cottage
Sidney Park Colored Methodist Episcopal Church
Siloam School
Simkins, Modjeska Monteith, House
South Carolina Governor's Mansion
South Carolina Memorial Garden
South Carolina State Armory
South Carolina State Hospital, Mills Building
South Carolina Statehouse
Southern Cotton Oil Company
Spann, Dr. Cyril O., Medical Office
Spigner, A. Fletcher, House
St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church
St. Phillip School
Stone Manufacturing Company
Supreme Court of South Carolina Building
Sylvan Building
Taylor House
Thurmond, Strom, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse
Town Theatre
Trinity Episcopal Church
Union National Bank Building
Union Station
University Neighborhood Historic District
US Courthouse
Veterans Administration Regional Office
Veterans Hospital
Wade Hampton State Office Building
Wallace-McGee House
Wardlaw Junior High School
Washington Street United Methodist Church
Washington. Booker T., High School Auditorium
Waverly Historic District
Wesley Methodist Church
West Gervais Street Historic District
Whaley, W. B. Smith, House
Williams, A.P., Funeral Home
Wilson, Thomas Woodrow, Boyhood Home
Woodlands
Woodrow Memorial Presbyterian Church
World War Memorial Building
Zimmerman House
Zimmerman School
1001 Gervais Street
100th Inf Division
102nd Cavalry
106th Inf Division
108th Division
1896 Power Plant
1900 Block of Henderson Street / William J. Sumter
26th Inf Division
30th Inf Division
31st Inf Division
4th Infantry Division
77th Inf Division
87th Inf Division
8th Infantry Division
9 -11 / First Responders
A Bridge to the Past
A Fortunate Survivor
A Tribute To All U.S. Military Personnel On This Day Of Infamy
A.S. Salley House
African-American Heroes of the 371st Regiment
African-American History Monument
Allen University
Alston House
An Enduring Landmark
Arsenal Hill
Arsenal Hill
Assembly Street
Barnie Jordan Jr. Memorial Highway
Barnwell Street
Battleship Maine Memorial
Benedict College
Benjamin Franklin Randolph Monument
Benjamin Mack House
Benjamin Ryan Tillman
Beth Shalom Cemetery
Beth Shalom Synagogue
Bethel A.M.E. Church
Bethel Baptist Church
Bethel Lutheran Church
Bethel Methodist Church
Bethlehem Church
Bethlehem Church
Birthplace of General Maxcy Gregg
Blanding Street
Blossom Street
Blossom Street School / Celia Dial Saxon School
Blythewood School
Booker T. Washington High School
Booker T. Washington School/Booker T. Washington High
Boylston House & Boxwood Gardens
Bridge at Remagen Stone
Broad River
Bull Street
Burning Of Columbia
Cain- Matthews- Tompkins House
Camp Jackson
Camp Johnson
Canal Dime Savings Bank/Bouie v. City of Columbia (1964)
Cap. Swanson Lunsford
Capitol Complex
Carver Theatre
Cecil Herbert Land D.D.
Cemetery of the Columbia Hebrew Benevolent Society
China - Burma - India Veterans
Church of the Good Shepard
Clariosophic Literary Society
College Street
Colonel Thomas Taylor
Columbia Bible College
Columbia Bible College, 1937-1960 / Westervelt Home, 1930 - 1937
Columbia Canal
Columbia City Hall
Columbia Civil Rights Sit-Ins/Barr v. City of Columbia (1964)
Columbia Hospital "Negro Unit" / Columbia Hospital "Negro Nurses"
Confederate Printing Plant
Confederate Soldiers 1861-1865
Confederate Soldiers Home
Congaree River Bridges
Congaree River Ferries
Congaree Vista
Courthouse Square
Curtiss-Wright Hangar
Cyril O. Spann Medical Office
Darby Field
DeBruhl-Marshall House
Dentsville School
DeSaussure College
Diamond Hill
Divided By Design
Doolittle Raiders
Duke of Albemarle
Earl of Clarendon
Early Columbia Racetrack
Early Country Homes
Early Howard School Site
Eastover
Ebenezer Lutheran Church
Elliott College
Elmwood Avenue
Elmwood Cemetery Confederate Soldiers
Entrance to Cemetery of the Columbia Hebrew Benevolent Society
Fair-Rutherford House / Rutherford House
First Baptist Church
First Calvary Baptist Church
First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church Confederate Veterans Monument
Fisher's Mill on Gill Creek
Fleishman Family Chapel
Former Site of Columbia Theological Seminary
Fort Jackson Elementary School / Hood Street Elementary School
Gadsden
Gadsden Street
Geiger Ave. Cemetery
Generations
George Elmore
George P. Hoffman House
George Washington (Statue)
Gervais Street Bridge
Gibbes Green
Gladden Home Site
Gonzales Tribute
Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital
Governor's Mansion
Gregg Street
Hampton - Preston House
Harden Street
Harnessing Water Power
Harper College
Harriet Barber House
Harriet Barber House
Harriett Cornwell Tourist Home
Heidt - Russell House / Edwin R. Russell
Henderson Street
Henry Disbrow Phillips, D.D.
Here Stood The State House
History of the Lincoln Street Tunnel
Hopkins
Horrell Hill
Horry-Guignard House
Howard School Site
Huger Street
I. DeQuincey Newman Freeway
I. DeQuincey Newman House
In Memory of the John H. Rose Family
Israelite Sunday School / Columbia's First Synagogue
J. Marion Sims
James F. Byrnes
James H. Adams
James M. Hinton House
Jefferson Hotel
John M. Bates Bridge
Joseph D. Sapp Memorial Bridge
Kensington
Killian Road Baptist Church Cemetery Confederate Soldiers Monument
Killian School
Kingville
Korean War Memorial
Lace House
Ladson Presbyterian Church
Lady Street
Last Home of Wade Hampton
Laurel Street
Legare College
Liberty Bell Reproduction
Lieber College
Lincoln Street
Little Zion Baptist Church
Lord Ashley
Lord John Berkeley
Lord William Craven
Mann-Simons Cottage
Marion Street
Matilda A. Evans House
Matthew J. Perry House
Maxcy Gregg Park
Maximilian LaBorde
McCord House
McCutchen House
Memorial Fountain
Memorial Youth Center
Memory of South Carolina Generals
Mexican Border and World War Memorial
Minervaville
Minton Family Home
Modjeska Simkins House
Monteith School
Nathaniel J. Frederick House
New Light Beulah Baptist Church
North Carolina Mutual Building
Old State Fair Grounds
Olympia Cemetery
Ordinance of Secession
Original Site of Columbia College
Original Site of Winthrop College
Palmetto Arsenal / Iron Works
Palmetto Regiment
Paul R. Redfern
Philip Simmons
Pickens Street
Pieces of the Past
Pieces of the Past
Pinckney College
Pine Grove Rosenwald School
President's House
Quoin-Stones
R.L. Bryan Co. Warehouse
Randolph Cemetery
Redfern Field / Paul R. Redfern
Remembering Dr. King
Richard Samuel Roberts House
Richard Theodore Greener (1844-1922)
Richardson Square
Richland Presbyterian Church
Richland Street
Richlex School Site
Robert E. Lee Memorial Highway
Robert H. Morrell Road
Rutledge College
S.C. Confederate Soldiers Home
Sandfield Baptist Church / Sandfield Cemetery
Sandy Level Baptist Church
Seaboard Air Line Passenger Station
Seaboard Air-Line Railway Station #1
Seaboard Air-Line Railway Station #2
Seibels House
Senate Street
Shandon
Shandon Presbyterian Church
Sherman's Headquarters
Shermans Artillery
Sidney Park C.M.E. Church
Sir George Carteret
Sir John Colleton
Sir William Berkeley
Site of Blanding House
Site of Columbia Female Academy
Site of Columbia High School
Site of Columbia Male Academy
Site of Gibbes House
Site of Mount Vernon Lutheran Church
Site of Original President's House 1807
Site of Palmetto Iron Works
Site of Parade Ground
Site of the Surrender of Columbia, SC
Site of Wayside Hospital
Site where James Dickey Wrote Deliverance
Skirmish at Killian's Mill
Slave Quarters
Slavery and the South Carolina College
South Carolina Confederate Monument
South Carolina Female Collegiate Institute
South Carolina Memorial Gardens
South Carolina State Hospital
South Carolina State Hospital, Mills Building
South Carolina State Vietnam War Memorial
South Carolina Veterans Memorial
South Carolina Women of the Confederacy Monument
Spanish-American War Cannon
Spanish-American War Veterans Monument
Spring Hill
St. Paul Church / Oak Grove
St. Peter's Church and Ursuline Convent
St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church
St. Phillip A.M.E. Church
St. Timothy's Episcopal Church
State Dispensary Warehouse
Strom Thurmond
Sumter Street
Taylor Burying Ground
Taylor Street
The Big Apple
The Boys of Richland County
The Columbia (S.C.) Holocaust Memorial
The East-West Streets In The City Of Columbia - Gervais Street
The Figure Eight in South Carolina
The Gonzales Fountain
The L. Marion Gressette Euphradian Society Hall
The Lighthouse & Informer / John H. McCray
The North-South Streets in The City Of Columbia / Richardson Street
The South Caroliniana Library
The State House
The State House of South Carolina
The Statue of Liberty Division
The "Columbiad" Cannon
Thomas Taylor / Taylor Cemetery
Tommy Wilson's Neighborhood
Town Theatre
Tree of Life Synagogue
Trinity Episcopal Church
University of South Carolina
Unknown Confederate Dead Monument
USC Desegregation Commemorative Garden
USS Columbia CL-56
Victorian By Design
Victory Savings Bank
Vietnam Veterans & POWs
Visanska-Starks House
Wade Hampton
Wade Hampton
Washington Street
Washington Street Methodist Church
Waverly
Waverly Five and Dime / George Elmore and Elmore v. Rice
Wesley Methodist Church
William Earle Berne Beltway
Williams Street / Gist Street
Wilson Boyhood House
Wilson House
Woodlands and Millwood
Woodrow Wilson Family Home & Gardens
Zion Baptist Church
Zion Chapel Baptist Church No. 1
"Chesnut Cottage"
"Commissioners' Oak"
“Spirit of the American Doughboy”
“Spirit of the American Doughboy”
One of the key events in Richland County's history took place during the American Revolution. In 1781, the Battle of Eutaw Springs was fought near present-day Eutawville, resulting in a significant victory for the American forces and marking a turning point in the war. This battle is commemorated today at the Battle of Eutaw Springs Historic Site.
During the antebellum period, Richland County experienced a boom in cotton production due to the introduction of the cotton gin. This led to a significant increase in the number of enslaved African Americans working on the region's plantations. Richland County also played a role in the abolitionist movement, with some residents actively opposing slavery and participating in the Underground Railroad.
After the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, Richland County underwent major changes. The county seat, Columbia, became a thriving center of industry and commerce. The construction of railroads and the establishment of educational institutions, such as the University of South Carolina, contributed to the county's growth. Today, Richland County continues to be a vibrant and diverse community, with a strong emphasis on education, culture, and economic development.
Brief timeline of the history of Richland County, South Carolina:
- 1785: Richland County is established as one of the original counties in the state of South Carolina.
- 1786: Columbia is established as the county seat and becomes the capital of South Carolina.
- 1808: The Columbia Canal is completed, providing power for local mills and factories.
- 1861-1865: Richland County is heavily impacted by the American Civil War, with Columbia being burned by Union troops in 1865.
- 1870: Reconstruction begins in Richland County, with efforts to rebuild the economy and infrastructure.
- 1905: The South Carolina State Fairgrounds open in Columbia, becoming a popular annual event for the county.
- 1930s: Richland County experiences significant growth during the Great Depression due to New Deal projects and the establishment of Fort Jackson.
- 1950s-1960s: The Civil Rights Movement impacts Richland County, with protests and activism for racial equality.
- 1970s: Urban renewal efforts lead to the revitalization of downtown Columbia, with new developments and restoration projects.
- 1990s: Richland County experiences further growth and development, becoming a hub for education, healthcare, and technology.
- 2000s: Richland County focuses on sustainable development and infrastructure improvements to accommodate continued growth.
This timeline provides a glimpse into the major events and milestones that have shaped the history of Richland County, South Carolina.