Of all the many magnificent churches in midtown Columbia, none other is as historic and stately as the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, located at 1100 Sumter Street, next to the State Capitol Building.   Organized in 1812, with the original building completed in 1814, the present building was dedicated in 1846.

In the churchyard are buried three Wade Hamptons, educator Thomas Cooper, poet Henry Timrod, senator W. C. Preston, governors Hampton, Thompson, and three Mannings, and soldiers of the Revolutionary and later wars, including Colonel Peter Horry, General Ellison Capers, and General John S. Preston.

Tours of the church building and grounds are conducted daily, Monday through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For more information, visit the church's web site at www.TrinityEpiscopalCathedral.org or call 
803-771-7300.

The original Washington Street Methodist Church, at the corner of Marion and Washington Streets in midtown Columbia, was built in 1803.  A second church, completed in 1832, was destroyed in 1865 during the Civil War and rebuilt a year later from salvaged brick and mortar.  

For more information, go to www.WashingtonStreetUMC.org.