John Wilkie Safety Roadside Rest Area At Fenner

As Caltrans Highway Superintendent for the Needles area, John Wilkie sought ways to improve maintenance at this Rest Area. Pursuing this goal, John became a statewide leader in increasing employment opportunities for persons with disabilities.

John's passionate belief in the abilities ...

Col. John Jones

of Brunswick County

Soldier of the Revolution

Feb. 14, 1735 – Jan. 11, 1793

Vestryman St. Andrew’s Parish

1775-79

Justice 1760-93

Sheriff 1773-75 Clerk 1789-93

House of Burgesses 1772-73

Virginia Senate 1776-89

Speaker of the Senate 1788-89

Virginia Convention of 1788

By successive steps

In the militia became

County Lieutenant,

1778-89

Erected 1935

By the Col. ...

Fort Johnstown

Important frontier civil

and military prison during

revolution. Inspected by

Washington in 1783

Marker is at the intersection of South Perry Street and Montgomery Street, on the right when traveling north on South Perry Street.

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Boyhood Home of Colonel John Mosby

Confederate Col. John Singleton Mosby was born in Powhatan County on 6 Dec. 1833. Nearby stood the early childhood home in which Mosby lived from soon after his birth until his family moved to Charlottesville by 1841. Before the Civil ...

Camp Johnson

This Confederate camp of instruction was once located about 1 mi. NW at Lightwood Knot Springs, site of a popular resort prior to the War Between the States.

Marker is on Parklane Road.

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John Brown Birthplace

John Brown, the abolitionist, was born at this site on May 9, 1800. He dedicated his life to ending slavery in the United States. Brown became a spokesperson for those abolitionists who believed that slavery could only be eliminated by ...

John's Island Presbyterian Church

Founded by early English, Scottish, and French settlers about 1710, this is one of the oldest Presbyterian congregations in South Carolina. The original sanctuary, believed to have been built about 1719, was enlarged in 1823.

Marker is on Bohicket Road ...

John Muir Memorial Park

The Land of My Youth

John Muir, the father of America's National Parks, lived on the northeast side of this lake from 1849 to 1855. Although he travelled all over the world, Muir never forgot this land, and tried several times ...

St. John's Methodist Church

Organized in 1828, this

was the first church in

Anderson. A log meeting

house built in 1830 on

West Benson Street served

the church until 1858

when a frame building

was erected on this site.

A brick church replaced

it in 1888. The present

sanctuary was completed

in 1912, the Educational

Building ...

John Muir, Foster Son of Wisconsin

Born in Scotland April 21, 1838

He came to America as a lad of eleven, spent his 'teen years in hard work clearing the farm across this lake, carving out a home in the wilderness. In the "Sunny woods overlooking ...