Captain John A. Sutter's Landing

[Main Marker]:

Captain John A. Sutter, after coming up the Sacramento River from Yerba Buena in August 1839, landed approximately two hundred feet north of here, at what was then the south bank of the American River. A short time thereafter ...

John A. Mather

Photographer of oil industry from 1860, lived in this house. His thousands of views form an extraordinary record of an industry that began here. Born, Bury, England, in 1829; died Titusville, 1915.

Marker is on East Main Street, on the left ...

John William Heisman

(1869-1936)

Renowned college football coach and name-sake for the sport’s highest amateur honor, the Heisman Memorial Trophy. His innovations included legalizing the forward pass, the center snap, the scoreboard, and game quarters. Heisman promoted player safety by advocating gear improvements and ...

John Luke Porter

(19 Sept. 1813 – 14 Dec. 1893)

John Luke Porter, first president of the Portsmouth common council, was born just two blocks south of here. An accomplished naval constructor, commissioned first by the United States and later by the Confederacy, Porter ...

Monument to John Q. Marr

This stone marks the scene of the opening conflict of the war of 1861–1865, when John Q. Marr, Captain of the Warrenton Rifles, who was the first soldier killed in action, fell 800 ft. S. 46 W. Mag. of this ...

St. John The Baptist Catholic Church

Erected 1845, tower and bell added 1888-1900

The first meeting of Catholics in Tuscaloosa was held in 1819. The first parochial school was opened in 1863. St. Paul’s Church, Birmingham, dedicated 1872, and churches in Selma, Blocton and Reform began as ...

John A. Wilson

Born July 25, 1832, near Worthington, Ohio, John Alf Wilson lived at this site. At the age of 29, he enlisted in C. Company, 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry under General O.M. Mitchell. General Mitchell consented to a dangerous mission led ...

John Brown Tannery

John Brown of Ossawatomie and Harper's Ferry worked here as a tanner, 1825-35. The nearby house was then his home. His first wife and son are buried near.

Marker is on John Brown Road 0.2 miles south of Pennsylvania Route 77, ...

John Brown's Tannery

On the side road, a short distance south, are the remains of the tannery and home built by the noted abolitionist of Harper's Ferry fame. Here, he lived and worked from 1825 to 1835, employing as many as 15 men ...

The Reverend John McMillan, D.D.

Born November 11, 1752

Died November 16, 1833

Pioneer, Preacher - Educator - Patriot

Lies buried in this church yard

Served sixty years in the ministry

Leader in founding Western Theological Seminary

Jefferson College - Jefferson Medical College

His Missionary labors resulted in the ...