Here Johnston’s River Line Crossed the Rd.

July 5, 1864. Gen. J.E. Johnston’s Army of Tenn. [CS] withdrew from the Smyrna-Ruff’s Mill line to formidable field-works which crossed the rd. at this point. The left of the line was at Nickajack Cr., 4.5 mi. S.W.; the rt. ...

Col. John Starkey

Free school advocate, 1749; Southern District treasurer, 1750-1765; member of assembly for 25 years. Grave located at "The Bluff" 4 mi. N.

Marker is at the intersection of West Corbett Avenue (State Highway 24) and Front Street, on the right when ...

John Redd Hutcheson

(1886-1962)

Director, Agricultural Extension Services 1919-1945

President 1945-1947

Chancellor 1947-1956

President, VPI Foundation 1948-1962

Alumnus president John Redd Hutcheson worked tirelessly to prepare VPI for the flood of returning

World War II veterans and developed a sense of optimism

and pride on campus. A nationally noted agricultural

leader, ...

John Crane

In 1830, John Crane applied to be a part of Joseph Vehlein's colony. Reportedly from Virginia, he was a veteran of the War of 1812. He moved his wife and seven children to what is now Walker County, Texas, in ...

John Fitch's Steamboat

Fitch tested near here a model steamboat in 1785. Before his death in 1798, he built 4 mechanically successful steamboats. The first in the U.S., they proved financial failures, leaving final success of the idea to Robert Fulton.

Adjacent, stone ...

In Memoriam John F. Kennedy

In Memoriam

John F. Kennedy

1917 – 1963

Thirty Fifth President

Of The United States

"Ask not what your country

can do for you, ask what

you can do for your country"

"He gave his best in all things

and in all ways"

Marker is on West Main Street ...

John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson

"Sonny Boy" Williamson (1914 - 1948), the music innovator responsible for the acceptance of the harmonica as an authentic blues tool, is buried in old Blair's Chapel CME Cemetery, 5 miles southwest. The most influential blues harmonica player of his ...

John Brown

and his associates collected arms and ammunition on the Kennedy Farm (Samples Manor) in Maryland for months prior to the raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, October 17, 1859

Marker is on Chestnut Grove Road, on the left when traveling ...

Frances Benjamin Johnston House

This Greek Revival house was erected for Mme. Julie Duralde, widow of John Clay, Henry Clay’s brother who purchased the property in 1835 and owned it until her death in 1861.

From 1940 until 1952 it was the residence of ...

St. John Evangelical Church

Founded on 1843 by German settlers from Hessen-Darmstadt and the Bavarian Palatinate, joined later by emigrants from Pomerania and Wurttemberg. Designed by architects Myrath and Koch for $30. 3 acre site purchased from Adam and Maria Stein for $150. Built ...