St. John's Military Academy

St. John’s, the oldest Military Academy in Wisconsin, was founded as a boy’s prep school in 1844 when Sidney T. Smythe, a student at Nashotah House, reopened an abandoned Delafield schoolhouse for St. John’s first students. Dr. Smythe graduated from ...

Johnson Hall 1762

Baronial home of Sir William Johnson. One of the most historic colonial buildings in the United States.

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John Perkins Barratt

May 11, 1795 - September 29, 1859

Physician, naturalist, versatile intellect, agricultural leader, president of Abbeville District Medical Society, 1835. Friend of Agassiz, Audubon and other major scientists, by his own advanced thinking, he outlined a theory of serial evolution and ...

Captain John Smith

Captain

John Smith

Governor of

Virginia

1608

Back of Monument:

Erected by

The Association of

the Preservation of

Virginia Antiquities

1907

Lower Plaque:

The gift of

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Bryan

Marker can be reached from Colonial Parkway, on the right when traveling west.

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St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church

First Roman Catholic Church in (present) Baltimore County founded in 1822. One and one half miles southeast of Sweet Air, one half mile northeast of Manor Road. Building destroyed by fire February 25, 1855. Parish relocated to present site. First ...

Captain John Smith

John Smith was born about 1580 the son of a yeoman farmer of modest means. As a young man he traveled throughout Europe and fought as a soldier in the Netherlands and in Hungary. There he was captured, taken to ...

Saint John’s Parish

(Gunpowder)

The old church here standing was built by Edward Day at his own expense and consecrated in 1817 to replace Saint John’s at Joppa Town which, built in 1725, lay in ruins.

Marker is at the intersection of Belair Road (U.S. ...

Johnny Western

Utah's Little Hollywood

Singer and actor Johnny Western has appeared in thirty-seven features, including "Boots and Saddles", "The Dalton Girls", "Fort Bowie", and "Have Gun-Will Travel" (for which he wrote the theme song) all filmed in Kanab. Johnny was recently inducted ...

John Henry Smyth

(14 July 1844–5 Sept. 1908)

Born in Richmond, Va., to a free black mother and enslaved father, John Henry Smyth graduated from Howard University Law School in Washington, D.C., in 1872 and worked variously as a teacher, bank cashier, lawyer, and ...

Saint John’s Episcopal Church

Here on 23 March 1776 Patrick Henry delivered his “Liberty or Death” speech, calling for American independence, during the second Virginia revolutionary conventions that included as members George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Peyton Randolph, and Richard Henry Lee. Saint John’s Church ...