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The Walker Local History room is on the third
level of the Main Library. Here you will find historical
and some current material focusing on Columbia, Richland County
and the surrounding counties of the Midlands. The collection
is selective, not exhaustive. Genealogical materials are limited.
A list of local libraries with genealogical collections is
available.
Highlights of the Local History Room include:
- The South Carolina Vertical File- a collection of articles
relating to various South Carolina topics
- City Histories
- County Histories
- South Carolina General Histories
- Church Histories
- School Histories
- Columbia, Cayce, West Columbia and Lexington city directories
for past years.
- Columbia telephone directories and cross-reference directories
for past years
- South Carolina Legislative Manuals for prior years
- The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine
- The Official Records of the Civil War
- Mill's Atlas
- Columbia, SC Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (microfilm)
- Topographical Maps
- Biographies of famous South Carolinians
- Historical photographs depicting Columbia and South Carolina
- South Carolina census indexes 1790-1870. Census reels
for South Carolina are housed at the South Carolina Department
of Archives and History. Census reels for other states may
be ordered through the Richland County Public Library for
a fee. Please call for more information.
Local History Bibliographies
These materials may not be checked out; however, some are also available in the circulating collection. These bibliographies are lists of books and other reference material that we have at the library. We will be adding new bibliographies every few months.
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