Remembering Columbia, South Carolina: Capital City Chronicles

Columbia, South Carolina—the capital of the Palmetto State for more than 200 years—has earned a well-deserved reputation as a history-rich Southern city. Columbia has been the site of a vast array of momentous events, and those well-documented episodes in the city's past have solidified its important historical role in the state, the South, and the country. Columbia's vibrant past, however, features much more than these well-documented events. The city's history is brimming with a fascinati...