Virtual Tours

Historic Columbia staff will present a PowerPoint presentation to a group within the metro area. The cost of the presentation is $50. To schedule a virtual tour, please contact the coordinator of visitor and volunteer services at 803.252.1770 ext. 24 or aposner@historiccolumbia.org.

• Columbia During World War II: A Palmetto Homefront Remembers
  As with every other city throughout the nation, Columbia did its fair share to support the war effort, supplying the armed forces with its youth and defying the Axis by mounting scrap drives. Planting victory gardens, and conserving resources. The city’s population swelled with the influx of recruits at Fort Jackson and the posing of military personnel at Columbia Army Airfield.
• Columbia’s Civil War: From Homefront to Battleground
  The popular step-on tour is presented in power point format. View images of Columbia’s antebellum and Reconstruction era structures, including churches, hospitals, armories, governmental buildings and private homes. Learn about Columbia during the early years of the war and about the fateful night of February 17, 1865 when thirty percent of the city’s structures were lost to fire.