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Tuesday, January 22nd

12 — 1 p.m.

Research Roundtable | Babcock Building

Free for members
$5 for non-members

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Seibels House : 1601 Richland Street, Columbia, SC 29201

Attend our monthly Research Roundtable programs to learn more about Historic Columbia’s research initiatives.

Recently, one of Columbia’s most iconic structures – the Babcock Building on the grounds of the former South Carolina State Hospital Bull Street campus – was threatened by fire. Join Historic Columbia’s Director of Cultural Resources, John Sherrer, as he explores the history of this venerable building. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch to this program.

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    Discover Columbia's past through historic images and research from the Cultural Resources team by picking up a copy of Remembering Columbia by our own John Sherrer, available at the Gift Shop at Robert Mills.

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    John Sherrer
    Director of Cultural Resources
    803.252.1770 x 28

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13 Apr

Thursday, April 13th: 6 — 7 p.m.

Columbia Conversations | Black life in Columbia during the late Jim Crow era

1300 Pine Street, Columbia, SC 29204

Beryl Dakers, Columbia native and pioneering broadcast journalist, will lead a conversation with professor and historian Thavolia Glymph (Duke University) and professor and author Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law School). Both were born in Columbia in the early 1950s. Growing up in Columbia “was formative in how I think about the...

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1601 Richland Street
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1616 Blanding Street
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