Columbia History Sponsors

• Historic Columbia Attractions
  Detailed guide to historical attractions in Columbia. Special sections include African-American landmarks and sites with free admission.
  Sponsored by Columbia Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau
  

Columbia SC Historic Homes, Houses

• Chesnut Cottage - c. 1850 - home of Confederate General James Chesnut and his wife, Mary Boykin, author of the famous Diary from Dixie, republished in 1982 as Mary Chesnut's Civil War - also spelled Chestnut Cottage
  
• Elmwood Park - c. 1903
• Hampton-Preston Mansion and Garden - c. 1818
• Kensington Mansion - c.1854 - Eastover
• Mann-Simons Cottage
• Robert Mills House and Park - c. 1823
• Seibels House - c. 1796
• South Carolina Governor's Mansion - c. 1842 - built as officers' quarters for the Arsenal Military Academy
  –  Caldwell-Boylston House - c. 1830 - scroll down
  –  Lace House - c. 1854 - scroll down
  
• Woodrow Wilson Boyhood Home - c. 1872

More Columbia SC Historic Landmarks

• Columbia historic sites, buildings, monuments
• Columbia gardens, plantations
• SC graves, graveyards