Timeline of Columbia, South Carolina

History of Columbia

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Columbia, South Carolina, USA.

18th-19th centuries

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Colonial period	1562–1774
American Revolution	1775–1788
Antebellum period	1812–1860
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1786 - Columbia established as state capital (previously located in Charleston).^[1]
1788 - Columbia becomes part of the new US state of South Carolina.^[2]
1795 - First Presbyterian Church congregation founded.^[3]
1797 - Commission of Streets and Markets established.^[1]
1801 - University of South Carolina was founded
1803 - Washington Street Methodist builds the first church building in Columbia
1804 - Columbia Library Society founded.^[4]
1805
- Town chartered.^[1]
- John Taylor elected intendant (town leader).^[1]
- South Carolina College opens.^[2]
1809 - First Baptist Church founded.
1813 - Trinity Episcopal Church founded.^[5]
1814 - State Legislative Library established.^[4]
1824 - St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church built.
1825 - March: Lafayette visits town.^[5]
1830
- Columbia Theological Seminary active.
- Population: 3,310.^[6]
1838 - Southern Chronicle newspaper begins publication.^[7]
1840 - Population: 4,340.^[6]
1842
- Railroad (Branchville-Columbia) begins operating.^[8]
- Arsenal Military Academy (the Citadel) established.
1846 - J.T. Zealy daguerreotypist in business.^[9]^[10]
1847 - Southern Presbyterian Review begins publication.^[7]
1850
- Carolina Times newspaper begins publication.^[7]
- Population: 6,060.^[11]
1852 - Charlotte-Columbia railway begins operating.^[8]
1853
- Greenville-Columbia railway begins operating.
- First Presbyterian Church building constructed.^[5]
1854 - Office of mayor established.^[1]
1856
- Town police force^[1] and Athenaeum^[4]^[10] established.
- South Carolina State Fair begins.^[5]
1857
- Trinity Episcopal Cathedral building consecrated.^[5]
- Southern Guardian newspaper begins publication.^[7]^[12]
1865
- February 17–18: Union forces in power; city burned.^[2]
- The Phoenix newspaper begins publication.^[7]^[12]
1869 - South Carolina State House built.^[5]
1870
- Benedict College founded.
- Area of city expands.^[1]
1871 - October: "Southern States Convention of Colored Men" held in Columbia.^[13]
1874 - State normal school opens.^[14]
1875 - US Court House built.^[1]
1880 - Population: 10,036.
1891 - The State newspaper begins publication.^[12]
1892 - Columbia Hospital established.
1893 - Sidney Park Colored Methodist Episcopal Church built.
1895 - Columbia Duck Mill begins operating.^[5]
1896 - South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Museum established.^[15]
1897 - Columbia Record newspaper begins publication.^[7]
1899 - Olympia Mill built.

20th century

1908 - Main Street paved.^[1]
1913
- National Corn Show held in city.^[2]
- Palmetto Building constructed.
1917 - Military Camp Jackson established.
1920 - Population: 37,524.
1921 - Bethel A.M.E. Church built.
1922 - February: Trolley strike.^[8]
1924 - Town Theatre built.
1925 - Part of North Columbia annexed to city.^[8]
1926-7 - Capital Heights, Hollywood, Kilbourne Park, Rose Hill, and Rosewood annexed to city.^[8]
1930
- Dreher Shoals Dam begins operating.^[2]
- WIS radio begins broadcasting.^[16]
- Belk's department store in business.^[8]
1931 - Carolina Theatre opens.^[17]
1932 - Thomas Woodrow Wilson Boyhood Home (museum) opens.
1934 - Richland County Public Library established.
1937
- US Courthouse becomes Columbia City Hall.^[1]
- Palmetto Theater opens.^[8]
- University South Caroliniana Society founded.[1]^[18]
1939
- WCOS radio begins broadcasting.^[16]
- Municipal Association of South Carolina headquartered in Columbia.[2]
1940
- Lexington County Airport built.
- US military Fort Jackson active.^[8]
- Population: 62,396.
1941 - Carver Theatre built.
1950
- Columbia Museum of Art and Twilite Drive-In cinema^[17] open.
- Population: 86,914.
1953 - WIS-TV and WNOK-TV (television) begin broadcasting.^[19]
1958 - Lester Bates becomes mayor.^[8]
1960 - South Carolina Department of Corrections headquartered in city.
1961
- Richland Mall in business.^[8]
- Historic Columbia Foundation established.^[15]
1963 - Columbia Festival Orchestra founded.
1966 - Hammond School founded.^[20]
1968 - University of South Carolina's Carolina Coliseum opens.
1970
- Dutch Square shopping mall in business.
- John Tucker Campbell becomes mayor.^[8]
- Population: 112,542.
1974
- Riverbanks Zoo opens.^[21]
- Shambhala Center founded.^[22]
1976 - WLTR radio begins broadcasting.^[8]
1977 - Palmetto Alliance (antinuclear group) founded.^[3]
1978 - Kirkman Finlay becomes mayor.^[8]
1979
- Masjid as-Salaam (Muslim center) built.^[22]
- Nickelodeon Theater opens.^[17]
- Columbia becomes part of Tree City USA.^[23]
1980 - South Carolina Military Museum established.^[15]
1981 - Harvest Hope Food Bank established.[3]^[24]
1983 - Chicora Foundation (historic preservation group) established.^[25]^[15]
1984 - Hindu Temple built.^[22]
1986 - T. Patton Adams becomes mayor.^[8]
1987 - AT&T Building constructed.
1988
- South Carolina State Museum opens in the former location of the vacant Columbia Mills Building.
- University of South Carolina's Koger Center for the Arts built.
1990
- Bob Coble becomes mayor.^[8]
- Population: 98,052.
1991 - Sidney Park opens.
1992 - Masjid Al-Muslimiin (mosque) built.^[22]
1993
- Richland County Public Library new main branch building opens.
- Jim Clyburn becomes U.S. representative for South Carolina's 6th congressional district.^[26]^[27]
1994 - Sikh Religious Society founded.^[22]
1996 - City website online.^[28]^[29]^[30]
2000 - January 17: Confederate flag protest.^[31]

21st century

2001 - Columbia Zen Buddhist Priory founded.^[22]
2002
- Colonial Center (arena) opens.
- Central Midlands Regional Transit Authority and Ganden Mahayana Buddhist established.^[22]
2005 - Columbia City Paper begins publication.
2007 - Columbia Quadsquad (rollerderby league) formed.
2009 - Fort Jackson National Cemetery established.
2010
- Stephen K. Benjamin becomes first African-American in city elected mayor.
- Population: 129,272 city;^[32] 767,598 metro.

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Federal Writers' Project 1941: "Chronology"
^ ^a ^b South Caroliniana Library. "Selected List of Finding Aids to Collections". Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Federal Writers' Project 1941, pp. 212–236: "Columbia"
^ ^a ^b Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Handbook of South Carolina (2nd ed.). Columbia, SC: State Department of Agriculture, Commerce and Immigration. 1908.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Moore 1993.
^ Harvey S. Teal (2001). Partners with the Sun: South Carolina Photographers, 1840-1940. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-384-1.
^ ^a ^b Hershman 1859.
^ Green 1969.
^ ^a ^b ^c "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
^ "Conventions by Year". Colored Conventions. P. Gabrielle Foreman, director. University of Delaware, Library. Retrieved June 20, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^ Benson John Lossing, ed. (1905). "United States: South Carolina (chronology)". Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History. Vol. 9. Harper & Bros. hdl:2027/mdp.39015059753007 – via Hathi Trust. + via Google Books
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d American Association for State and Local History (2002). "South Carolina". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). Rowman Altamira. ISBN 0759100020.
^ ^a ^b Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: South Carolina", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
^ ^a ^b ^c "Movie Theaters in Columbia, SC". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
^ Alice Eichholz, ed. (2004). "South Carolina". Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources (3rd ed.). Ancestry Publishing. p. 593+. ISBN 978-1-59331-166-7.
^ Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960), "Television Stations: South Carolina", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
^ Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei, ed. (9 May 2013). "Columbia, South Carolina". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
^ Vernon N. Kisling, Jr., ed. (2001). "Zoological Gardens of the United States (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Pluralism Project. "Columbia, South Carolina". Directory of Religious Centers. Harvard University. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
^ Columbia Planning Department 2008.
^ "South Carolina Food Banks". Food Bank Locator. Chicago: Feeding America. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
^ "Clubs & Organizations (directory)". Columbia, SC: Richland Library. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
^ Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
^ "South Carolina". 1993-1994 Official Congressional Directory: 103rd Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. hdl:2027/uc1.l0072691827 – via Hathi Trust.
^ "Columbia, South Carolina Home Page". Archived from the original on 1996-12-18 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
^ "Midlands governments touting information via technology", The State, April 20, 1996
^ "Mouse-guided tour of Columbia", The State, February 15, 1997
^ Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis, ed. (2005). "Chronology". To Make Our World Anew: a History of African Americans. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-983893-6.
^ "Columbia (city), South Carolina". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on July 10, 2014. Retrieved June 20, 2015.

Bibliography

Columbia City Directory. J.T. Hershman. 1859 – via University of South Carolina.
R.H. Long (1863), "Columbia", Hunt's Gazetteer of the Border and Southern States, Pittsburgh, Pa.: John P. Hunt
Walsh's Columbia South Carolina City Directory. 1907.
Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Columbia", South Carolina: a Guide to the Palmetto State, American Guide Series, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pp. 212–236, hdl:2027/mdp.39015008031521{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link). + Chronology
Mary Fulton Green (1969). "Profile of Columbia in 1850". South Carolina Historical Magazine. 70 (2): 104–121. JSTOR 27566933.
John Hammond Moore (1993). Columbia and Richland County: A South Carolina Community, 1740-1990. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-87249-827-3.
Vennie Deas-Moore (2000). Columbia, South Carolina. Black America. Arcadia.
Columbia Planning Department (2008). "Comprehensive Plan for Columbia, South Carolina: 2008-2018". City of Columbia, South Carolina.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)

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South Carolina Department of Archives and History. "City of Columbia". Summary Guide to Municipal Records. State of South Carolina.
"Local History Digital Collections". Columbia, SC: Richland Library.
"Historic Resources". City of Columbia.
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