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Columbia City Historical Markers

Map of Tennessee State Historical Marker Locations in the City of Columbia
 

Columbia City Historical Markers

Columbia Churches
Church House
Church House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

First United Methodist Church of Columbia
First United Methodist Church of Columbia is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Mount Lebanon Missionary Baptist Church
In October 1843, free Blacks in Columbia established Mount Lebanon Missionary Baptist Church, the oldest Black Baptist congregation in Tennessee. Edmu... [click for more]

Pleasant Mount Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Pleasant Mount Cumberland Presbyterian Church is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

St. John’s Episcopal Church
Consecrated Sept. 4, 1842, by James Hervey Otey, first Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee, this church was built by Leonidas Polk, then Missionary Bishop ... [click for more]

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
St. Peter's Episcopal Church is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Columbia Schools
Columbia Central High School
Columbia Central High School is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Columbia Miliary Academy
Columbia Military Academy 1904-1979. In 1888, local residents gave 67 acres to the U.S. Army for an arsenal. The Bowling Green stone buildings quarter... [click for more]

Columbia Historic Homes & Houses
Dr. Samuel Mayes House
Dr. Samuel Mayes House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

James K. Polk Home
Built in 1816 for James K. Polk's father, Samuel, this Federal-style house is the only surviving home of America's eleventh President.


James Kennedy House
James Kennedy House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Lucius Frierson House
Lucius Frierson House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Mayes-Hutton House
Mayes-Hutton House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Patrick Maguire House
Patrick Maguire House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Pillow-Bethel House
Pillow-Bethel House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Polk Sisters’ House
Polk Sisters' House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Columbia General Interest
Advance and Retreat
In this house, Lt. Gen. Hood established his command post while bypassing Maj. Gen. Schofield's force at Columbia, Nov. 24, 1864. Here also, Dec. 20, ... [click for more]

Ashwood Rural Historic District
Ashwood Rural Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Beechlawn Advance and Retreat
Beechlawn Advance and Retreat is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Blythewood
Blythewood is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Clifton Place
Clifton Place is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Columbia Commercial Historic District
Columbia Commercial Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Columbia Hydroelectric Station
Columbia Hydroelectric Station is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesPre-TVA Hydroelectric Power Development in Tennessee MPS... [click for more]

Columbia West End Historic District
Columbia West End Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Delaying Forrest
Delaying Forrest
...a decided stand
? Hood's Campaign ?


(Preface):
In September 1864, af... [click for more]

Elm Springs
Elm Springs is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Fairmont
Fairmont is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Forrest and Capron ~ Nov. 24 1864
Forrest's cavalry, screening the advance of Stewart's Corps on Columbia met Capron's Cavalry Brigade in this locality and chased it back to Columbia, ... [click for more]

Greenwood Cemetery
Land for this cemetery was part of the North Carolina grant to Nicholas Long; John White deeded it to the City of Columbia in 1808. Here are buried, a... [click for more]

Hamilton Place
Hamilton Place is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Hood and Schofield
Arriving at Columbia ahead of the Confederates, Schofield entrenched around the town. Hood, arriving Nov. 26, demonstrated against his position, with ... [click for more]

Hood’s Maneuver ~ Nov. 24, 1864
Sending Lee's Corps and the bulk of his army's artillery toward Columbia to engage and hold Schofield in check, Hood moved the Confederate Army of Ten... [click for more]

James Knox Polk
The parents of the eleventh President of the United States occupied this property in 1816, at which time young Polk was 21. From that time, except for... [click for more]

Joseph Brown
About 1/2 mile east of here Joseph Brown lived. Enroute to the Cumberland Settlements by river from North Carolina in 1778 he was captured by Indians ... [click for more]

Mercer Hall
Mercer Hall is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Pillow Place
Pillow Place is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Rally Hill
Rally Hill is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Sam Davis
In a cabin here the escort with the body of the Boy Hero of the Confederacy stayed overnight while returning to his home in Smyrna, Tenn., for burial.... [click for more]

Skipwith Hall
Skipwith Hall is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

State Bank of Tennessee
State Bank of Tennessee is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

The Athenaeum
The Athenaeum is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

Union Station
Union Station is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]

West Sixth Street and Mayes Place Historic District
West Sixth Street and Mayes Place Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]