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The Vista

Comprising more than 800 acres, the Congaree Vista is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the “West Gervais Street Historic District” and is protected as an architectural conservation district by the City of Columbia. Bounded by the Congaree River to the west and Assembly Street to the east, this district features a mixture of historically significant buildings with architecturally sympathetic re-development and infill projects.

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700 Hampton Street

700 Hampton Street

South Carolina Memorial Park

Dedication of this four-acre park on November 11, 1986 coincided with the unveiling of the South Carolina Vietnam Memorial, one of the country’s largest besides the national monument in Washington, D.C. Between 1990 and 2002, further monuments were erected, including those for World War I; Pearl Harbor; the China-Burma-India campaign; the USS Columbia; the Holocaust; and the Korean War.

  • South Carolina Memorial Park

    South Carolina Memorial Park, 2018. Historic Columbia collection

  • South Carolina Memorial Park

    South Carolina Memorial Park, 2018. Historic Columbia collection

  • South Carolina Memorial Park

    South Carolina Memorial Park, 2018. Historic Columbia collection

  • South Carolina Memorial Park

    South Carolina Memorial Park, 2018. Historic Columbia collection

  • South Carolina Memorial Park

    South Carolina Memorial Park, 2018. Historic Columbia collection

South Carolina Holocaust Memorial

Unveiled on June 6, 2001, this simple, yet powerful, site promotes thoughtfulness, meditation and understanding of the Holocaust in which six million Jews and millions of others were murdered by the Nazi regime. The monument’s mission is to memorialize the dead, to honor the South Carolina Holocaust survivors and liberators, and to educate all visitors through a timeline and pictorial etchings about the Shoah, or catastrophe, of 1933 - 1946. The memorial sits atop a Star of David surrounded by four meditative benches that carry a quote from either a survivor or liberator.
 

  • Jadzia Ben and Lilly Stern

    Holocaust survivors Jadzia and Ben Stern hold their daughter, Lilly, who would serve as memorial committee chair five decades later. Image courtesy of Dr. Lilly S. Filler

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1601 Richland Street
Columbia, SC 29201

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All historic house and garden tours start at the Gift Shop at Robert Mills.
1616 Blanding Street
Columbia, SC 29201

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