History · Columbia · established 1788
Columbia’s history is mostly unwritten
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Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress, the National Register and Wikipedia.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Columbia
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
3
each building in a district counts
first listed
1974
Point of Fork Plantation
in Virginia
#243
by listings
Buildings
Architectural styles listings
Classical Revival1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
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From the National Register of Historic Places (1). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.