Heritage Hall Hosting Runaway Scrape Ball Saturday, April 5th

by | Mar 29, 2025

By Tracy Gupton Our neighboring town of Brazoria’s museum has its popular annual Santa Anna Ball. In 2025, some 189 years removed from the historic event, the Columbia Historical Museum’s Board of Directors is making plans to initiate a similar celebration with hopes...

A Century Ago: WCHS Class of 1925 Remembered in Photos

by | Mar 25, 2025

By Tracy Gupton I have really enjoyed thumbing through the yellowed pages of the scrapbook put together by Mogene Clayton 100 years ago. My fellow Columbia Heritage Foundation board member Karen Rowold Mostyn was kind enough to loan me her grandmother’s book of...

Longtime Roughnecks Football Coach Passes Away at 82

by | Mar 6, 2025

By Tracy Gupton Funeral services for former Columbia Roughnecks Athletics Director and Head Football Coach Ed Derrich will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 7, 2025, at St. John the Apostle Catholic Church, 807 Loggins Drive, in West Columbia. Ed, who is a former...

Heritage Foundation Membership Dues Can Be Paid Online

by | Feb 26, 2025

Membership is open to anyone who attended school in West Columbia, from the 1920s to the present day. All existing members of the Columbia Heritage Foundation are encouraged to put making a payment on your annual dues to CHF on your to do list. The Board of Directors...