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Heathwood Hall Episcopal School is an independent coeducational college preparatory school in Columbia, South Carolina. Founded in 1951, Heathwood offers classes for students in pre-kindergarten/nursery school through grade 12. For the 2006-2007 school year, Heathwood had 1050 students enrolled and graduating classes typically number between 75-85 students each year.

Congaree Creek is a stream in Lexington County, South Carolina, formed from the Congaree River. The Name 'Congaree' come's from the River, of the same name. The Battle of Congaree Creek was named after this creek. Crossings Interstate 77 Old State Road 12TH Street Railroad Charleston Highway Interstate 26 Railroad Main Street Pine Street Ramblin Road Old Orangeburg Road South Lake Drive

On February 4, 2018, the southbound Amtrak Silver Star No. 91 passenger train from New York City to Miami collided with a stationary CSX Transportation freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, just south of the state's capital of Columbia on CSX's Columbia Subdivision. Two Amtrak crew members were killed and 116 other crew and passengers were injured.

Arthurtown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Richland County, South Carolina, United States. It was listed appeared as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. Its population in 2020 was 2,294.

WFMV (620 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Cayce, South Carolina, and serving the Columbia metropolitan area. It is owned by Glory Communications and broadcasts an urban gospel radio format. By day, WFMV is powered at 2,500 watts. But to avoid interfering with other stations on 620 AM, it reduces power at night to only 126 watts. It uses a non-directional antenna at all times. Programming is also heard on two FM translator stations, 96.1 W241DJ and 107.1 W296EI.

WQXL (1470 AM "The Point 100.7 FM and 1470 AM") is a commercial radio station in Columbia, South Carolina. The station is owned by Glory Communications and operated by Capital City Media. It airs a talk radio format. Local hosts are heard in morning and afternoon drive times, with nationally syndicated talk shows heard middays, evenings and late nights. They include Dave Ramsey, Dennis Prager, Todd Schnitt, Ben Shapiro, Brian Kilmeade and Red Eye Radio. Most hours begin with Salem Radio news. Operator Keven Cohen hosts both the 7 AM and 4 PM radio shows, with a local host at 9 AM, and Phil Kornblut, whose long-running statewide sports radio program has been show has been owned and operated by WQXL since January 29, 2019 after its previous syndicator shut down in-state operations, is on at 6 PM. The transmitter, located off New State Road in Cayce, is powered at 11,000 watts during the day and 100 watts at night. Programming is simulcast on FM translator W264DF 100.7 MHz in the Columbia area.

Granby was the first European settlement in the area of present-day Columbia in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Settlement began around 1718 with the establishment of a trading post by the British on the Congaree River. Many small farms were settled by German, Swiss, and Scots-Irish immigrants. Granby was the largest town and county seat of Lexington County until the early 19th century, when the town began to gradually decline as Columbia, the state capital, grew. The once thriving colonial town was mostly unoccupied after the first quarter of the 19th century. Today, the area is part of present-day Cayce.

Williams–Brice Stadium is the home football stadium for the South Carolina Gamecocks, the college football team representing the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. It is currently the 16th largest on-campus college football stadium in the NCAA and is located on the corner of George Rogers Boulevard and Bluff Road adjacent to the South Carolina State Fairgrounds. Carolina football teams consistently attract standing-room-only crowds to Williams–Brice Stadium. The atmosphere on game days has been voted "the best" by SECsports.com, and has been noted as being among the loudest environments to play in by opposing players. The stadium has been the site of many concerts, state high school football championships, and various other events. It hosted the annual Palmetto Capital City Classic between Benedict College and South Carolina State University until the last game in 2005. The stadium is sometimes called "The Cockpit" by Gamecock fans and local media, and the name has been commonly used by these groups since at least the early 1970s when the university held a fund-raising campaign to raise money for an AstroTurf playing surface, called "Carpet the Cockpit".

The Curtiss-Wright Hangar, also known as Owens Field Municipal Airport Hangar, is an historic hangar located at Jim Hamilton – L.B. Owens Airport, Columbia, South Carolina. Built in 1929 by Curtiss-Wright, it consists of a central metal-clad barrel roofed storage area flanked on either side by flat-roofed wings.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.In 2018, the restoration of the hangar was completed and the Hunter-Gatherer Brewery began serving a variety of craft beers and specialty foods.

Olympia Armory is a historic National Guard armory located at Olympia, near Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina.

The South Carolina State Fair is an annual 12-day state fair held in Columbia, South Carolina and operated by the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina. North American Midway Entertainment caters rides, food, and games for the fair. The fair is South Carolina's largest recurring event, attracting over 400,000 fairgoers annually.

Olympia is an urban unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Richland County, South Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census with a population of 1,087.The CDP is in western Richland County, bordered to the north by the city of Columbia, the state capital, and to the west, across the Congaree River, by the city of Cayce. The eastern half of the CDP is residential, while the western half is occupied by the Columbia Quarry of Vulcan Materials.Four locations in the CDP are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Olympia Armory is on Granby Lane in the northeast part of the CDP, the Olympia Mill School is on Olympia Avenue in the northern part of the CDP, and the Olympia Union Hall is on Silver Street in the northernmost part of the CDP, close to the Columbia city line. Much of the northeast part of the CDP is within the Olympia Mill Village Historic District. The Olympia Mill is within the Columbia city limits, just north of the CDP.