History, Events, Exhibits & More

For two nights a year, residents of Columbia’s past to their grave sites to tell us about their…

September 23, 2023 | 6pm-9pm Join us for an evening of great food and fun in the Polk…

November 10th, 9am-1pm Celebrate the fall harvest and learn about life on the Tennessee frontier with a morning…

September 29th, 9am-1pm The Tennessee Division of Archaeology will join us for a special morning of archaeology activities…

Join us for the final event in our “Shaping a Nation” Speaker Series.  Over 300 Civil War generals…

Tennessee State Museum Chief Curator Richard White joins us for an overview of the Mexican-American War. One of…

Dr. Tim Johnson, guest curator of the exhibit “Shaping a Nation: Tennessee Volunteers & the Mexican-American War” will…

Join us on February 2nd at 6pm at First Presbyterian Church in downtown Columbia as we welcome Myers…

  Join us October 23rd, 7:00-9:00pm as local Columbians of the past come to life at their gravesites…

Dr. Jill Anderson | Mexico in Polk’s America, the Reality and the Fantasy Hanging of the San Patricios…