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Richland County, South Carolina

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
196historic places
—earliest paper
1785formed
416,147pop. 2020
63cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 196 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1969; 5 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Columbia, Hopkins, Eastover.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for South Carolina is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Richland titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

113 of 196 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

196 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Allen UniversityColumbiaDistrict1975
Alston HouseColumbiaBuilding1979
Alta Vista-Camp Fornance-Newman Park Historic DistrictColumbiaDistrict2015
Arcade BuildingColumbiaBuilding1982
Arsenal HillColumbiaBuilding1971
BROWN'S FERRY VESSELColumbiaStructure1979
Babcock Building, South Carolina State HospitalColumbiaBuilding1981
Barber HouseHopkinsBuilding1986
Bellevue-Newman's Field-Gracelynn Terrace Historic District (Additional Documentation)ColumbiaDistrict1997
Bellevue-Newman's Field-Gracelynn Terrace Historic District (Boundary Increase)ColumbiaDistrict2025
Benedict College Historic DistrictColumbiaDistrict1987
Benson, Florence C., Elementary SchoolColumbiaBuilding2009
Bethel A.M.E. ChurchColumbiaBuilding1982
Beverly ApartmentsColumbiaBuilding2021
Big Lake Cattle MoundHopkinsStructure1996
Bob Russell Realty BuildingColumbiaBuilding2024
Brady's Cattle MoundHopkinsStructure1996
Brevard, Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins, HouseColumbiaBuilding1986
Bridge AbutmentsHopkinsStructure1996
Building at 1210-1214 Main StreetColumbiaBuilding1979
Building at 1644 Main StreetColumbiaBuilding1979
Building at 1722-1724 Main StreetColumbiaBuilding1980
Building at 303 Saluda AvenueColumbiaBuilding1982
Byrd, J. A., Mercantile StoreEastoverBuilding1986
Caldwell-Hampton-Boylston HouseColumbiaBuilding1971
Calhoun, John C., State Office BuildingColumbiaBuilding2011
Canal Dime Savings BankColumbiaBuilding1980
Carolina Life Insurance CompanyColumbiaBuilding2016
Carver TheatreColumbiaBuilding2003
Cattle Mound #6HopkinsStructure1996
Champion and Pearson Funeral HomeColumbiaBuilding2017
Chapel of HopeColumbiaBuilding2023
Chapelle Administration Building NHLColumbiaBuilding1976
Chappell HouseCedar CreekBuilding1986
Chesnut CottageColumbiaBuilding1971
Citadel Shirt CorporationColumbiaBuilding2021
Claussen's BakeryColumbiaBuilding1987
Colonial Village ApartmentsColumbiaDistrict2021
Columbia CanalColumbiaDistrict1979
Columbia Central Fire StationColumbiaBuilding2009
Columbia City HallColumbiaBuilding1973
Columbia Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase II)ColumbiaDistrict2021
Columbia Commercial Historic District (Additional Documentation)ColumbiaStructure2014
Columbia Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)ColumbiaDistrict2017
Columbia Electric Street Railway, Light & Power SubstationColumbiaBuilding2011
Columbia Historic District IColumbiaDistrict1971
Columbia Historic District IIColumbiaDistrict1971
Columbia Historic District II (Boundary Increase II and Boundary Decrease)ColumbiaDistrict2018
Columbia Historic District II (Boundary Increase)ColumbiaDistrict1982
Columbia Mills BuildingColumbiaBuilding1982
Columbia Township AuditoriumColumbiaBuilding2005
Confederate Printing PlantColumbiaBuilding1979
Consolidated BuildingColumbiaBuilding1979
Cook's Lake Cattle MoundHopkinsStructure1996
Cooner's Cattle MoundHopkinsStructure1996
Cornell ArmsColumbiaBuilding2019
Cornwell, Harriet M., Tourist HouseColumbiaBuilding2007
Curtiss-Wright HangarColumbiaBuilding1998
Dead River Cattle MoundHopkinsStructure1996
Dead River DikeHopkinsStructure1996
Debruhl-Marshall HouseColumbiaBuilding1972
Dovillers-Manning-Magoffin HouseColumbiaBuilding1979
Eau Claire Municipal ComplexColumbiaDistrict2026
Eau Claire Town Hall and Survey Publishing Company BuildingColumbiaBuilding1979
Ebenezer Lutheran ChapelColumbiaBuilding1979
Efird's Department StoreColumbiaBuilding2012
Elmwood CemeteryColumbiaSite1996
Elmwood Park Historic District (Additional Documentation)ColumbiaDistrict1991
Elmwood Park Historic District (Boundary Increase)ColumbiaDistrict2002
Ensor-Keenan HouseColumbiaBuilding1979
Evans, Dr. Matilda A., HouseColumbiaBuilding2019
Fair-Rutherford and Rutherford HousesColumbiaBuilding1984
Farmers and Merchants Bank BuildingEastoverBuilding1986
Federal Land Bank BuildingColumbiaBuilding2015
First Baptist Church NHLColumbiaBuilding1971
First National BankColumbiaBuilding1980
First Presbyterian ChurchColumbiaBuilding1971
Five Points Historic DistrictColumbiaDistrict2019
Forest Hills Historic DistrictColumbiaDistrict2007
Good Hope Baptist ChurchEastoverBuilding1986
Good Samaritan-Waverly HospitalColumbiaBuilding2008
Goodwill PlantationEastoverDistrict1986
Granby Mill Village Historic DistrictColumbiaDistrict1993
Greyhound Bus DepotColumbiaBuilding1989
GrovewoodCongareeBuilding1986
Hale-Elmore-Seibels HouseColumbiaBuilding1971
Hall, Ainsley, House NHLColumbiaBuilding1970
Hampton-Preston HouseColumbiaBuilding1969
Harden Street SubstationColumbiaBuilding2005
Heslep HouseColumbiaBuilding1979
Hoffman, George P., HouseBlythewoodBuilding1986
Holman’s Barber ShopColumbiaBuilding2021
Hopkins Family CemeteryHopkinsStructure2010
Hopkins Graded SchoolHopkinsBuilding1986
Hopkins Presbyterian ChurchHopkinsBuilding1986
Horry-Guignard HouseColumbiaBuilding1971
House of Peace SynagogueColumbiaBuilding1979
Kaminer, John J., HouseGadsdenBuilding1986
Kensington Plantation HouseEastoverBuilding1971
Kirkland, B. B., Seed and Distributing CompanyColumbiaBuilding1979
Koon, John Jacob Calhoun, FarmsteadBallentineBuilding1986
Kress BuildingColumbiaBuilding1979
Lace HouseColumbiaBuilding1969
Ladson Presbyterian ChurchColumbiaBuilding1998
LaurelwoodColumbiaBuilding1986
Leevy’s Funeral HomeColumbiaBuilding2021
Lever BuildingColumbiaBuilding1979
Logan SchoolColumbiaBuilding1979
Lorick, Preston C., HouseColumbiaBuilding1972
Lutheran Theological Seminary Building: Beam DormitoryColumbiaBuilding1979
Lyles-Gudmundson HouseColumbiaBuilding1979
MagnoliaGadsdenBuilding1986
Mann-Simons CottageColumbiaBuilding1973
McCord HouseColumbiaBuilding1979
McMaster SchoolColumbiaBuilding1997
Melrose Heights-Oak Lawn-Fairview Historic DistrictColumbiaDistrict2016
Middleburg Park Historic DistrictColumbiaDistrict2025
Miller Brothers Cotton WarehouseColumbiaBuilding2016
MillwoodColumbiaSite1971
Moore-Mann HouseColumbiaBuilding1979
National Loan and Exchange Bank BuildingColumbiaBuilding1979
Nipper Creek(38RD18)ColumbiaSite1986
North Carolina Mutual BuildingColumbiaBuilding1995
North Columbia Fire Station No. 7ColumbiaBuilding2005
Northwest Boundary DikeHopkinsStructure1996
OakwoodGadsdenBuilding1986
Old Campus District, University of South CarolinaColumbiaDistrict1970
Old Shandon Historic DistrictColumbiaDistrict2003
Olympia ArmoryColumbiaBuilding1995
Olympia MillColumbiaBuilding2005
Olympia Mill SchoolColumbiaBuilding2018
Olympia Mill Village Historic DistrictColumbiaDistrict2018
Olympia Union HallColumbiaBuilding2017
Owen BuildingColumbiaBuilding2013
Pacific Community Association BuildingColumbiaBuilding2007
Palmetto BuildingColumbiaBuilding1980
Palmetto Compress and Warehouse Company BuildingColumbiaBuilding1985
Pine Grove Rosenwald SchoolColumbiaBuilding2009
Powell, J. Davis, HouseColumbiaBuilding2012
Price, George R., HouseColumbiaBuilding1998
Price, Raymond, HouseColumbiaBuilding2007
Randolph CemeteryColumbiaSite1995
Richland Cotton MillColumbiaBuilding1983
Richland County Health CenterColumbiaBuilding2025
Richland Presbyterian ChurchGadsdenBuilding1986
Romer BuildingColumbiaBuilding2026
Ruth's Beauty ParlorColumbiaBuilding2020
Saint Thomas' Protestant Episcopal ChurchEastoverBuilding1986
Saluda ApartmentsColumbiaBuilding2021
Scott, Claudius, CottageEastoverBuilding1986
Sidney Park Colored Methodist Episcopal ChurchColumbiaBuilding1996
Siloam SchoolEastoverBuilding1996
Simkins, Modjeska Monteith, HouseColumbiaBuilding1994
South Carolina Archives BuildingColumbiaBuilding2024
South Carolina Governor's MansionColumbiaBuilding1970
South Carolina Memorial GardenColumbiaSite2012
South Carolina State ArmoryColumbiaBuilding1999
South Carolina State Hospital, Mills Building NHLColumbiaBuilding1970
South Carolina State LibraryColumbiaBuilding2022
South Carolina Statehouse NHLColumbiaBuilding1970
Southern Cotton Oil CompanyColumbiaBuilding1996
Southwest Boundary DikeHopkinsStructure1996
Spann, Dr. Cyril O., Medical OfficeColumbiaBuilding2019
Spigner, A. Fletcher, HouseColumbiaBuilding2009
St. Peter's Roman Catholic ChurchColumbiaBuilding1989
St. Phillip SchoolEastoverBuilding1996
Stone Manufacturing CompanyColumbiaBuilding2020
Supreme Court of South Carolina BuildingColumbiaBuilding1972
Sylvan BuildingColumbiaBuilding1972
Taylor HouseColumbiaBuilding1982
Thurmond, Strom, Federal Building and U.S. CourthouseColumbiaBuilding2014
Town TheatreColumbiaBuilding1974
Trinity Episcopal ChurchColumbiaBuilding1971
US CourthouseColumbiaBuilding1979
Union National Bank BuildingColumbiaBuilding2019
Union StationColumbiaBuilding1973
University Neighborhood Historic DistrictColumbiaDistrict2004
Veterans Administration Regional OfficeColumbiaBuilding2020
Veterans HospitalColumbiaDistrict2009
Wade Hampton State Office BuildingColumbiaBuilding2007
Wallace-McGee HouseColumbiaBuilding1979
Wardlaw Junior High SchoolColumbiaBuilding1984
Washington Street United Methodist ChurchColumbiaBuilding1970
Washington. Booker T., High School AuditoriumColumbiaBuilding2018
Waverly Historic DistrictColumbiaDistrict1989
Wesley Methodist ChurchColumbiaBuilding2009
West Gervais Street Historic DistrictColumbiaDistrict1983
Whaley, W. B. Smith, HouseColumbiaBuilding1979
Williams, A.P., Funeral HomeColumbiaBuilding2005
Wilson, Thomas Woodrow, Boyhood HomeColumbiaBuilding1972
WoodlandsColumbiaBuilding2006
Woodrow Memorial Presbyterian ChurchColumbiaBuilding1979
World War Memorial BuildingColumbiaBuilding1995
Zimmerman HouseColumbiaBuilding1979
Zimmerman SchoolColumbiaBuilding1979
Zion Baptist ChurchColumbiaBuilding2021

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Richland was formed in 1785 (1785-03-12) from unknown / original county.

RICHLAND created in Camden District.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Richland County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

416k210k3,930179018001840188019101920196020002020
17901800182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
3,9306,09712,32116,39718,30728,57345,58978,122104,843142,565200,102269,735320,677416,147

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

SiteTypeDist.
Congaree National ParkPark unit27.4 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

63 cemeteries and 9 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 63 of 63 listed
NameLatLon
Bardell Graveyard34.05515-80.76258
Bauknight Cemetery34.11042-81.23092
Bethel Cemetery33.85626-80.87981
Bethel Cemetery33.86098-80.88036
Bethel Cemetery34.14064-81.28544
Beulah Cemetery34.04237-80.93314
Beulah Cemetery34.20764-81.06425
Bickley Cemetery34.15318-81.30246
Browns Cemetery34.21264-80.92481
Cedar Creek Cemetery34.18014-81.12759
Childs Cemetery33.95861-80.98557
Cory Cemetery34.13737-81.11064
Crescent Hill Cemetery34.03067-81.00873
David Bounts Cemetery34.21542-81.30287
Douglas Cemetery34.01515-81.04926
Elmwood Cemetery34.0157-81.05592
Enon Cemetery34.06626-80.8787
Fort Jackson National Cemetery34.09074-80.84991
Franklin Memorial Garden34.15487-80.95314
Gate of Heaven Cemetery34.09277-81.06225
Golden Cemetery34.10639-81.18646
Graveyard Hill Cemetery34.10236-81.0962
Green Lawn Memorial Park33.97348-80.95037
Hebrew Cemetery34.00459-81.0437
Henry Eargle Cemetery34.15162-81.28502
Hiller Cemetery34.12542-81.29676
Hopewell Cemetery34.14486-81.27176
Jacob Eargle Cemetery34.20056-81.28635
Joyner Cemetery33.83848-80.70842
Lincoln Cemetery34.04037-81.02024
Lincoln Memorial Cemetery34.05388-81.03883
Lindler Cemetery34.12736-81.21815
Logues Cemetery33.97042-80.7637
Macedonia Cemetery34.04848-80.88453
Meetzer - Orris Cemetery34.21292-81.28537
Mespiah Cemetery34.14931-81.1012
Miller Cemetery34.03242-81.03945
Mount Pleasant Cemetery34.05153-80.81758
Mount Vernon Cemetery34.14684-81.27597
Myers Cemetery33.86543-80.8812
Olympia Cemetery33.97209-81.03231
Palmetto Cemetery34.05334-81.03074
Pine Grove Cemetery34.0232-80.70175
Pine Ridge Cemetery34.05445-81.0121
Randolph Cemetery34.00931-81.05426
Saint Marks Cemetery34.19598-81.01925
Saint Patricks Cemetery34.06743-81.00924
Saint Pauls Cemetery34.12723-81.1755
Saint Peters Cemetery34.01181-81.04898
Salem Cemetery34.08876-80.81147
Salem Cemetery34.10875-81.22787
Schmitz Cemetery34.20514-81.2812
State Cemetery34.01293-81.0562
State Hospital Cemetery34.08987-80.98925
Stuck Cemetery34.21125-81.31509
Taylor Burying Ground34.01376-81.02842
Taylor Cemetery34.06512-81.02835
Thomas Boyd Cemetery34.21193-81.29391
Threewits Cemetery34.15375-81.30676
Tom Seay Cemetery33.80543-80.65814
Whites Cemetery34.18764-81.25259
Woodlawn Cemetery34.15348-80.9537
Zion Pilgrim Cemetery33.84793-80.87759
Historical populated places — 9 of 9
NameLatLon
Butchertown34.02015-81.04204
Calla34.12709-81.17648
English34.07793-80.69453
Garners Quarter33.94321-80.64259
Lever34.19737-81.10981
Lisbon34.03654-80.81231
McCrearys Quarter34.06349-80.62203
New Dublin33.99377-81.03787
Pleasant34.18571-81.04287

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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