After a 12-year hiatus, the Columbia Italian Festival will resume annual operations October 10 at Finlay Park.
From 1880 to 1914, 13 million Italians migrated out of Italy. Four million of them arrived in the United States, 3 million between 1900 and 1914. They came for the most part from southern Italy and the island of Sicily.
Sadie Tronco was born to Charles and Anna Serio Carnaggio on February 18, 1901 and moved to Columbia with her parents and siblings around the year 1910. Charles Carnaggio owned one of the first fruit stores in Columbia, located on Gervais street close to Seaboard Railway Station…