On February 9, 1975 the Columbia Missourian reported on efforts to “recycle” “rundown buildings” in Columbia. The Hays Hardware Building at at 812 East Broadway was given as a prominent example. The building was constructed for the Hays Hardware company around 1870, which occupied it for 99 years, until they went out of business in 1969. The building sat vacant until 1973 when Jackie Slater of Missouri Arts and Craft Company leased it. The Missourian describes the renovation:

On February 8, 1970, the Columbia Missourian reported that a local observance of national “Negro History Week” would be held at the J.W. “Blind” Boone Community Center. Negro History Week was started in 1926 and scheduled in February to mark the birthday’s of Frederick Douglass (February 14) and Abraham Lincoln (February 12). The weeklong celebration of black history grew into what is now celebrated as Black History Month

On February 7, 1973, the Columbia Missourian reported that the old Hinkson Creek Bridge was closed to motor vehicles and would likely be preserved as a historic site and pedestrian crossing. It is at the site of the original crossing of Ashland Gravel Road over Hinkson Creek and was built in 1888 by H.W. Sebestian & Co to replace an earlier wooden bridge. Ashland Gravel Road was the main route to the town of Ashland and beyond to Jefferson City.

On February 6, 1882, the Columbia Milling Company was incorporated with General Oden Guitar as as president. Agriculture was the main business in Columbia and Mid-Missouri for most of their early history. Grist mills and grain elevators were an important businesses in Columbia has the surrounding farms would bring corn and wheat to be ground into flour. Many of the early grist mills were along creeks and powered by water. Grindstone Creek is named after the rock outcrops along its course that were used to carve grindstones for the mills.

On February 5, 1929, the First Christian Church in downtown Columbia opened up bids for the construction of a new educational building adjacent to their church building on 10th street. Eugene Groves, a Denver based architect designed the building and the corner stone was laid on May 5, 1929 and it was completed and dedicated on December 8, that same year. The congregation would later be named after church leaders Dr. Clarence E. Lemmon and his wife. An atrium was built between the educational building and the main church building in 1990.

On February 4, 1929 the Columbia Missourian reported on a meeting of University of Missouri athletic officials to discuss the urgent need for a field house. Rothwell Gymnasium (1906) and McKee Gymnasium (1922) were at capacity and the growing university needed a larger area, especially for basketball. Plans moved quickly and on February 8, 1930, Brewer Fieldhouse was dedicated during a MU vs. KU basketball game attended by 4,500 people. The fieldhouse was named in honor of Chester Brewer, who served at different times as athletic director, and as head coach of football, basketball, and baseball.

On February 3, 1862, an order was issued by the Union Army requiring the president, professor, curators, and other officers of the University of Missouri take an oath of allegiance to Missouri and the Federal Government. Major General Hallack’s order stated that “this institution having been endowed by the government of the United States, its funds should not be used to teach treason or to instruct traitors.” Refusal was allowed, but if those named “shall thereafter attempt to obtain pay, or perform the functions of such office, he will be tried and punished for military offense.”

On January 2, 1978, the Columbia Missourian reported that the University of Missouri Lab School would close; it was over 110 years old at the time and budget cuts were blamed. For most of its history it was a combined elementary and high school on campus, commonly known University High or U-High. At the time of its closing in 1978, there were 180 student were enrolled in grades 1-6; the high school had already been shuttered in 1973. The school was a venue for teacher training, educational experimentation, and application of new teaching techniques.

On February 1, 2007, the Columbia Cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The cemetery was established in the 1820s just before or during, the founding of Columbia in 1821. At first it was a simple common burial ground, but in 1858 the Columbia Cemetery Association expanded the area into a more formal cemetery. The Columbia Cemetery of 2023 spans 26 acres and now includes three smaller cemeteries with separate, but closely related histories.

On January 31, 1921, Beulah Ralph was born in Hardin, Missouri. Beulah moved to Columbia as a child and graduated from the black only Douglass High School at a time when public education was still segregated by race. After graduating she returned to Columbia Public Schools and Douglass as an employee. Her almost sixty year long carrier as an educator would span the period of desegregation, a process she helped guide the district through.