John Freeman

In 1844, John Freeman, a free black, purchased land in Indianapolis. By 1853, he owned land in this area worth $6,000. In June 1853, a slaveholder claimed Freeman was his runaway slave. Freeman spent nine weeks in jail; he hired ...

Death of John Morgan

Sept. 4, 1864

The center of the present block was one the garden of the Williams house where Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan of Morgan's Raiders fame and his staff were billeted. Just after dawn a detail from Brig. Gen. Alvan ...

Boyhood home of John Brown

Hudson, Ohio was the boyhood home of John Brown (1800-1859.) This marker is at the very south end of East Main Street on the Ravenna Street Green.  Abolitionist John Brown came to Hudson as a boy in 1805 and lived ...

General Albert Sidney Johnston

C. S.

General Albert Sidney Johnston

Commanding the Confederate Army

Died Here at 2:30 P.M. April 6, 1862Senator Isham G. Harris, who was Governor of Tennessee in 1862 and was serving as volunteer aid on the staff of Gen. Johnston at Shiloh, visited ...

Tabby Sugar Works of John Houston McIntosh

These are the ruins of a tabby sugar works built by John Houston McIntosh at New Canaan Plantation soon after 1825. In his sugar house McIntosh installed what was, according to Thomas Spalding, the first horizontal cane mill worked by ...

John Baptiste DuBay

1810 — 1887

Son of a Menominee Indian Princess •

Son-in-Law of Chief Oshkosh •

Treaty-Maker • Interpreter •

Indian Trader • Firm Friend of White Men.

Marker is on Old U.S. Highway 51 South, 0.1 miles south of School Road, on the right when ...

John Marshall’s Birthplace

About one half mile southeast, just across the railroad, a stone marks the site of the birthplace, September 24, 1755. He died at Philadelphia, July 6, 1835. Revolutionary office, Congressman, Secretary of State, he is immortal as Chief Justice of ...

John A. J. Creswell

Born at this house at Creswell’s Ferry, now Port Deposit, in 1828, John Creswell graduated from Dickinson College and became a lawyer. He was elected to the General Assembly in 1861, became Adjutant General in 1862, was elected to Congress ...

Ben Johnson

Utah's Little Hollywood

Movie making around Kanab, Utah

Wardrums 1957

Fort Bowie 1958

Gunsmoke 1960

How The West Was Won 1976

Marker is on North 300 West, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

John Ford

Utah's Little Hollywood

This photo of John Wayne (left) and Director John Ford was taken in 1950 when they were filming “Rio Grande”, near Moab, Utah. Ten years earlier Ford and his co-stars Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert made “Drums Along ...