John Twohig Lived on These Grounds

Here he entertained Robert E. Lee and other famous men. He was known for his Christianity, hospitality, and charity to the poor and orphans. He blew up his store to keep the powder and shot from the enemy during Vasquez's ...

Johnston's Line East of Kennesaw

A point on the intrenched line of Loring’s (formerly Polk’s) A.C., [CS] which extended from the mtn. down its E. slope to the Bell’s Ferry rd. This sector was held by Featherston's div. -- the rt. of the corps. Hood’s ...

The Reverend John Roads (Rhodes)

Died 1764. A Pioneer and Christian father, who with his wife and six of his thirteen children, was a victim of the last Indian massacre in Page County.

Marker is on U.S. 211 west of U.S. Route 340 South turnoff, on ...

Lynching of John Evans

At this intersection

November 12, 1914

John Evans

a black laborer

from Dunnellon FL

was lynched

condemned by a secret

council of fifteen of

St. Petersburg's most

influential citizens.

He was then turned over

to a mob of fifteen hundred

white residents and

- Murdered -

Marker can be reached from the intersection ...

John Taylor Wood, CSN

And the Sinking of the USS Underwriter

In January 1864, General Robert E. Lee wrote to Confederate President Jefferson Davis that "a bold party" could descend the Neuse River to New Bern at night, capture Federal gunboats and use them to ...

John A. Urich

A City of Madison Principal Planner whose work spanned from 1965 to 1996, John championed downtown urban design projects including the State Street Mall, Capitol Concourse, Civic Center, Capitol Centre, Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, and the Monona Terrace Community ...

Sergeant Major John Champe

Here was the home of Sergeant Major John Champe, Continental Army, who risked the inglorious death of a spy for the independence of his country.

Marker is on John Mosby Highway (U.S. 50) east of Cobb House Road, on the right ...

William H. Johnson Birthplace

Marker Front:

William Henry Johnson (1901-1970), one of the most important African-American artists of the 20th century, was born nearby on Cox Street. His family later lived on the corner of Cheves and Kemp Streets. In 1918, at the age of ...

Johnson's Ranch

The first settlement reached in California by emigrant trains using the Emigrant (“Donner”) Trail. It was an original part of the 1844 Don Pablo Gutierrez Land Grant. It was sold at auction to William Johnson in 1854. In 1849 part ...

William Bullein Johnson

1782 - 1862

President of Triennial Southern, South Carolina Baptist Conventions. Johnson Female University founded here in 1848 as Johnson Female Seminary was named for him because of his support for female education. From 1853 to 1858, while Chancellor of this ...