History · Columbia
Columbia’s history is mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 4 old photos of Columbia. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
4 old photos & papers
2 historic places
4 need a date
From Columbia’s archive · credits on each photo What stands out about Columbia’s past Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out Start Columbia’s collection The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Columbia’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos 00s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album. The story How Columbia came to be From Wikipedia’s history of Columbia.
Read it all → Founded in 1820, Columbia served as a major trading center for communities throughout the Wiregrass Region of Alabama between 1822 and 1833, which coincided as its time as Henry County seat. Henry County which then comprised portions of present-day Covington, Dale, Barbour, Coffee, Crenshaw, Bullock, Geneva, and Houston counties. It lost the county seat status to Abbeville in 1833.
Text from Wikipedia , licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 .
By decade
Columbia, decade by decade Then & now Stand where they stood No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this view S. M. Dunwoody House, Abbeville Highway Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Columbia’s page.
Retake this view · +15 On the National Register 2 historic places in Columbia The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1982
Purcell-Killingsworth House
Architectural styles listings Queen Anne 1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
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What used to stand where something else is now in Columbia? → Who remembers Columbia in the 1950s? → A family story from old Columbia → Does anyone have photos of Columbia from the 1990s? →
From Wikimedia Commons (1), the Library of Congress (4), the National Register of Historic Places (2) and Wikipedia. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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