John McMillan

First Presbyterian missioner in this area, 1775. Founder of Hill Church, 1776, and of Western Theological Seminary and Jefferson College. Died in 1833, after sixty years in the ministry, and is buried in the churchyard.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Captain John Young/John Young Early Settler

Captain John Young Grave of Revolutionary War Vet. John Young (1760-1850) located in nearby Sand Run Cemetery. Noted soldier, Indian scout & trapper, he came to Kanawha Val., 1780s, named county trustee, 1794, and farmed 225 acres here.

John Young ...

Hank Garland / Johnny Blowers

Hank Garland

1930-2004

Hank Garland was a prolific studio musician contributing to recordings by Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline and many others.

Born in Cowpens, Garland joined the Grand Ole Opry at 15, recording his million-selling his "Sugerfoot Rag" at age 16, and established ...

Johnson Ferry House

This farmhouse is the only existing structure within the park that witnessed the Crossing of the Continental troops on December 25-26, 1776. It was built around 1740 by Rutger Jansen, a Dutchman from Flatbush, Long Island, on a tract of ...

Col. John Stuart/Mathew Arbuckle

Col. John Stuart Col. John Stuart built Stuart Manor, 1789, near Fort Stuart. He was a military and civil leader and led a company in the Battle of Point Pleasant. As clerk of Greenbrier County, he left many historic records. ...

The John Dickinson Campus of Dickinson College

Named for John Dickinson President of Pennsylvania and of Delaware. "The penman of the Revolution," and first president of the Board of Trustees of this college.

Marker is at the intersection of W. High Street and West Street on W. High ...

John (Snowshoe) Thompson

Send me men to match my mountains.

These are words a great poet said speaking for the brave young nation that needed strong and brave men’s aid.

In memory of

John (Snowshoe) Thompson

who, for twenty successive winters, 1856-1876, carried the mail on ...

“Pettijohn’s Old Field”

The future home of Sussex County’s seat of government was a sparsely populated rural area when the 76 acres which would become the Town of Georgetown were purchased on May 9, 1791. Located “near the centre” of the country at ...

John F. Appleby

It was here at Mazomanie in the late 1870's that John F. Appleby perfected the knotter. Still used on binders and balers, the knotter is a mechanical device which binds grain into compact bundles with twine.

Appleby was born in New ...

John Randolph

of Roanoke. Great American stateman and orator, born 1773 at "Cawson's", nearby on Appomattox River, home of his maternal grandfather Theodoric Bland St.

Marker is at the intersection of West Randolph Road and North 3½ Avenue, in the median on West ...