Barbra A.B. Horrell, co-director of the African American Heritage Trail organization, will be the speaker at the 7 p.m. Jan. 31, 2023 meeting of CoMo Preservation, a group dedicated to preserving historic places and spaces. The meeting will be held in the Friends Room of the Columbia Public Library. All meetings of CoMo Preservation are…
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Kicking off 2023 with historic news flashes
CoMo Preservation, a new historic preservation nonprofit founded in May of 2022 is kicking off a new project. Starting on Jan. 1, 2023, CoMo Preservation will begin CoMo 365, a daily news flash about an event that happened on that day in history in Columbia, Missouri. You can follow along via CoMo Preservation’s new website…
National speaker at Dec. 21 CoMo Preservation meeting
CoMo Preservation’s meeting at 7 p.m. on Dec. 21 in the Columbia Public Library will feature Bob Yapp speaking to via Zoom. Yapp has been involved in historic preservation and rehabbing for decades and had his own PBS program, About Your House on PBS. In the four years after it started in 1996, the program…
CoMo Preservation meeting 7 p.m. Nov 29
Meeting of CoMo Preservation 7 p.m. Nov. 29 in the Columbia Public Library.
609 Westmount media reports
The house at 609 Westmount is set to be demolished — and the bad news is there is currently no way to prevent this. A group of people is meeting to explore starting an organization to save Columbia’s history. If you’re interested, the meeting is open to the public and will be meeting at 2…
Spotlight: Dryer’s Shoes: Thriving in the era of online shopping
This package is the result of a partnership between a class at the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism and CoMoHistoricPlaces.com
Jim Ussary, a founder of one of Columbia’s major employers, dies
Jim Ussary Sr., one of the founders of one of Columbia’s top employers, died on March 10, 2022, according to this March 11, 2022 obituary in the Columbia Daily Tribune. But you could be excused if you didn’t recognize his name today. Ussary was one of the three founders of ABC Laboratories when it was…
Oct. 11 – Historic Movie Theaters of Columbia
Oct. 11 publication of Historic Movie Theaters of Columbia by Dianna Borsi O’Brien
Digital Black History Resource
History geeks rejoice! Here is a link to a 1988 transcription by Charles O’Dell of a 1901-1909 director of Black households in Boone County. This resource is made available by the Daniel Boone Regional Library as part of its new Missouri Bicentennial Collection. The DBRL’s description: “A unique record of African American history in Boone…
Coronavirus: Lessons from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
If you’re like me, you’re concerned about ongoing coronavirus pandemic. I stay hopeful by looking at history and how we’re all pulling together by not getting together. Thanks CoMo businesses for curbside pick up! So what can we learn from the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed about 150 people in Columbia, which had a population…