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.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Tommy Johnsom

Mississippi Blues Trail Marker

Tommy Johnson (1896-November 1,1956) was one of the most influential blues artists in Mississippi in the 1920s and 1930s. He grew up in the Crystal Springs area, where he often performed with his brothers LeDell and Mager. ...

John Edwards Jr.

1831 – 1891

A native of England, John Edwards Jr. settled in this area in 1859 to assume operation of his father’s sawmill, the nucleus around which the village of Port Edwards developed. Founded in 1840, the Edwards Sawmill was incorporated ...

Truckee Trail – To Johnson Ranch

”with practically no food for man or beast, and by bringing all the energy and courage which both men and beast possessed,…we succeeded in…reaching the first, or Johnston’s settlement.”

-Benjamin Hoffman, Sep 1, 1849

Marker is on Camp Far West Road, on ...

Robert Johnson Birthplace

Robert Johnson born Hazelhurst, Mississippi May 8, 1911 Copiah County

Robert Johnson recording career left an enormous legacy to American music. The body of his work is considered to be the most powerful of its kind.

His music struck a chord ...

Rev. John Leighton Wilson, D.D.

His home stood on this site. With his wife, Jane Bayard Wilson, he served as a Presbyterian missionary on the western coast of Africa 1833-1852. He advocated ending the slave trade and by 1844 had freed all his own slaves. ...

Brig. Gen. John Minor

Hazel Hill, the home of John Minor (13 May 1761 – 8 June 1816), a close friend of President James Monroe, once occupied this site. Minor served as a soldier in the American Revolution, as a colonel if the Spotsylvania ...

John Wilkes Booth

Escape of an Assassin

Divided loyalties and ironies tore at Marylander’s hearts throughout the Civil War: enslaved African-Americans and free United States Colored Troops; spies and smugglers; civilians imprisoned without trial to protect freedom; neighbors and families at odds in Maryland ...

John Pray - Founder of Waterville,Ohio / The Miami and Erie Cana

[East Side of Marker] : "John Pray - Founder of Waterville, Ohio"

Born in Rhode Island, John Pray (1783-1872) moved to the Maumee River Valley from New York shortly after serving in the War of 1812 and completing a prospecting ...

Johnston's Headquarters

During the fighting at Dallas, New Hope Church, Pickett’s Mill & elsewhere along the opposing Confederate & Federal lines, General J. E. Johnston [CS] had h'dq'rs at the Wm. Wigley house (which stood near here) May 25 - June 1, ...