New historical marker to be unveiled downtown.

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A historical marker will be unveiled tomorrow at 1012 Marion St. recognizing the home of a prominent black Columbia family who resided there during the Reconstruction era.

The marker will stand in front of townhouse built around 1872 for Theophilus and Virginia McKee Minton, according to a news release from local civil rights organization Columbia 63.

Theophilus Minton, a Philadelphia native, graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1876 along with Richard Greener, USC's first black professor. Minton worked as a clerk in the state senate and treasurer's offices. In 1870, he married Virginia McKee, a daughter of one of the wealthiest black families in the country.

The Mintons' son, Dr. Henry McKee Minton, was born in Columbia on Dec. 25...