WHO: Mayor Daniel Rickenmann, Mayor Pro Tem Edward McDowell, Jr., Charmaine Clowney, JD, Chair of SC African American Heritage Commission, Karen Strickland, Genealogist, Dr. Edwin Breeden, SC Historical Marker Program Coordinator .
WHAT: The City of Columbia alongside the South Carolina Department of Archives and History will hold a marker unveiling for the late Harriette “Hettie” Eugenia Anderson. Hettie Anderson was an acclaimed African American art model of the Gilded Age who grew up in the house where the marker will be placed and unveiled. Anderson was born in Columbia around 1873 to Caroline (Lee) Scott and Benjamin Dickerson. Her mother’s family were local free people of color before the Civil War. Anderson and her family lived on the west side of Wayne Street on property owned by Scott and later by Anderson.
WHEN: Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 12 p.m.
WHERE: West Side of Wayne St., between Taylor St. and Blanding St., Columbia, SC