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Bluegrass, Bidding & BBQ
This year's Bluegrass, Bidding and BBQ silent auction will include live music from the Mustache Brothers, local BBQ from The Friendly Caterer and specialty drinks. All proceeds will benefit Historic Columbia.
Why Join?
If you look around, you’ll see Historic Columbia’s advocacy work everywhere—from the Bull Street development to the new Palmetto Compress building…and we’ve got big plans to save even more historic properties from demolition, but we need the help of people like you to make it happen.
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Your membership helps us create entertaining historical programming that brings people from diverse age groups and backgrounds together. Our educational programs help explain the connections between our past and present, using history as a prism for a deeper understanding.
Join TodayWhy Join?
As a member, you’ll get discounted admission and early access to our most popular events. Joining Historic Columbia is a great way to “plug in” to the city’s professional network and get involved in your community.
Join TodayLGBTQ+ Columbia
History Initiative
The LGBTQ+ Columbia History Initiative documents the often unseen and untold stories of this diverse community through oral histories, archival collections, and historic site interpretation.
Tours
Connect with History
We offer socially distanced outdoor tours weekly -- whether you want to explore the history of HC's historic sites or its gardens.
Rentals
Historically Ever After
We are currently booking and hosting events in a limited capacity and with additional precautions in place to ensure the safety of our guests and staff. Contact our Rentals Coordinator for more information about hosting an event with Historic Columbia!
Upcoming Events
22 Oct
Friday, October 1st — Sunday, October 31st: 10 a.m.—4 p.m.
Scarecrows in the Garden Exhibit
1616 Blanding Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Scarecrows will take over the Robert Mills House gardens! This free exhibit will feature handcrafted scarecrows made by local families, business, organizations and classrooms. On a stroll through the gardens this fall, you’ll see dozens of ghoulish, historic and colorful scarecrows.
22 Oct
Friday, October 22nd: 5:30 — 7 p.m.
1616 Blanding St., Columbia, SC 29201
Put on your costume and join us as we bring the fun of Halloween to the Robert Mills House during Trunk or Treat! Children will enjoy trick-or-treating with a twist in a safe and fun environment at this free event. Community members and organizations will display decorated trunks filled with candy in the parking lot of the Robert Mills House.
23 Oct
Saturday, October 23rd: 12 — 7 p.m.
LGBTQ+ Kickoff at Famously Hot SC Pride!
Main. St, Columbia, SC 29201
Help us kickoff the LGBTQ Columbia History Initiative! Historic Columbia joins the University of South Carolina Libraries in launching the LGBTQ Columbia History Initiative during Famously Hot SC Pride! Festival on Oct. 23. The LGBTQ Columbia History Initiative tells the story of the capital city’s LGBTQ+ community through oral histories...
27 Oct
Wednesday, October 27th: 1 — 2 p.m.
1615 Blanding St., Columbia, SC 29201
Horticulture professionals across the country are fully aware that the landscapes they manage are rapidly changing as a result of Climate Change. This lecture will examine the ways in which our conditions are changing here in Columbia and the Midlands of South Carolina and offer new ways to plan or...
28 Oct
Thursday, October 28th: 4 — 5:30 p.m.
1616 Blanding St, Columbia, SC 29201
In partnership with the Midlands Native Plant Society, Historic Columbia is hosting a Fall Plant Sale on the grounds of the Robert Mills House. From subtropicals to woody trees, Historic Columbia will be offering a wide array of plants all propagated from our living collections across our sites. Examples include...
28 Oct
Thursday, October 28th: 5:30 — 7 p.m.
1616 Blanding St., Columbia, SC 29201
Historic Columbia members are invited to our Annual Meeting being held on Thursday, October 28, from 5:30 - 7 p.m. Join us for our annual meeting and the kick off to our 60th year! Members will vote on new board members + changes to HC's bylaws.
28 Oct
Thursday, October 28th: 7 — 10 p.m.
1615 Blanding Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Join us on October 28, 2021 for Palladium's 17th annual Bluegrass, Bidding & BBQ silent auction. Guests will enjoy live music, local BBQ, specialty drinks and a variety of exciting auction items on the grounds of the Hampton-Preston Mansion.
29 Oct
Friday, October 29th: 10 a.m. — 4 p.m.
1616 Blanding St, Columbia, SC 29201
In partnership with the Midlands Native Plant Society, Historic Columbia is hosting a Fall Plant Sale on the grounds of the Robert Mills House. From subtropicals to woody trees, Historic Columbia will be offering a wide array of plants all propagated from our living collections across our sites. Examples include...
30 Oct
Saturday, October 30th: 10 a.m. — 4 p.m.
1616 Blanding St, Columbia, SC 29201
In partnership with the Midlands Native Plant Society, Historic Columbia is hosting a Fall Plant Sale on the grounds of the Robert Mills House. From subtropicals to woody trees, Historic Columbia will be offering a wide array of plants all propagated from our living collections across our sites. Examples include...
13 Nov
Saturday, November 13th: 5:30 — 8:30 p.m.
Flight Night Presented by Columbia Metropolitan Airport Featuring ‘Top Gun’
1615 Blanding St., Columbia, SC 29201
The grounds at Hampton-Preston Mansion and Gardens will once again provide a unique setting to watch a movie! Purchase your pod to watch Top Gun, the 1986 classic featuring Tom Cruise as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell who goes nose-to-nose with rival Iceman at the elite pilot school. Flight Night is presented...
17 Nov
Wednesday, November 17th — Friday, December 31st: 12—3 p.m.
1616 Blanding Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Guests are invited to see a variety of holiday decorations and experience traditions in both historic homes between Friday, Nov. 19 and Saturday, Dec. 31! Tour guides will provide stories of holidays past in Columbia and discuss how families decorated and entertained during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
21 Nov
Sunday, November 21st: 11 a.m. — 5:30 p.m.
South Carolina Oyster Festival
1616 Blanding Street, Columbia, SC 29201
The 24th annual South Carolina Oyster Festival will take place on the grounds of Robert Mills and Hampton-Preston on Sunday, Nov. 17 from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Bring your chairs, your blankets, your oyster knives, and your appetite!
21 Nov
Sunday, November 21st: 1 — 4 p.m.
Dollar Sunday | Mann-Simons Site
1403 Richland St., Columbia, SC 29201
Every third Sunday of the month, residents of Richland and Lexington counties are invited to tour of one of Historic Columbia’s house museums for just $1 on Dollar Sunday! This month, visit the exhibits at the Mann-Simons Site, the home to the same African-American family for nearly 130 years.
21 Nov
Sunday, November 21st: 1 — 4 p.m.
Dollar Sunday | The Museum of the Reconstruction Era
1705 Hampton Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Every third Sunday of the month, residents of Richland and Lexington counties are invited to tour of one of Historic Columbia’s house museums for just $1 on Dollar Sunday! This month, visit The Museum of the Reconstruction Era, the nation's only museum dedicated to interpreting the post-Civil War Reconstruction period and South Carolina's only remaining presidential site.
19 Dec
Sunday, December 19th: 1 — 4 p.m.
Dollar Sunday | Mann-Simons Site
1403 Richland St., Columbia, SC 29201
Every third Sunday of the month, residents of Richland and Lexington counties are invited to tour of one of Historic Columbia’s house museums for just $1 on Dollar Sunday! This month, visit the exhibits at the Mann-Simons Site, the home to the same African-American family for nearly 130 years.
