John Muir View

John Muir (1838-1914), world famous naturalist and "father of the national park system," often stopped to rest and admire this view as he walked from his home in Marquette County to the University of Wisconsin. Muir loved the wilderness from ...

John Lang Sinclair

(November 26, 1879 - January 4, 1947)

In 1899, John Lang Sinclair became a student at the University of Texas (UT) in Austin. The first UT band was formed in 1900 and Sinclair, possessing an aptitude for music, joined it ...

John Clayton, Botanist

One and a half miles north is the site of his home "Windsor" where he developed an excellent botanical garden. He was first president, Virginia Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge, and clerk of Gloucester County from 1722 until ...

Governor John Page

John Page, planter, scholar, and Revolutionary patriot, was born in 1743 at Rosewell, three miles west of here. He attended the College of William and Mary with Thomas Jefferson. The two men developed a lifelong friendship and shared an interest ...

Site of Huguenot Church of Saint John's Berkeley

Eastern face:

Site of the

Huguenot Church

of

Saint John's Berkeley

Constructed prior to

1701

Western face:

Erected A.D. 1928

by the

Huguenot Society

of

South Carolina

Marker is on Old Blackoak Road 2 miles west of Highway 52, on ...

John Chads House

c. 1725

JOHN CHAD’S HOUSE

Proctor’s American Artillery

Occupied Several Redoubts Near

This House at the Battle of

Brandywine, September 11, 1777

Marker is on Creek Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

William Bensinger and John R. Porter

In Memory of

[Marker Front]:

In Memory of

William Bensinger and John R. Porter

...who are buried here. They joined the famous Andrews Raid to wreck Confederate supply lines. The raiders captured a locomotive, "The General," at Big Shanty, Georgia, ...

Joseph E. Johnston Memorial

Joseph E. Johnston

1807 ---- 1891

Brigadier General U.S.A.

General C.S.A.

Given command of the Confederate

forces at Dalton, in

1863, he directed the 79 days

campaign to Atlanta, one of the

most memorable in the annals of war

Erected ...

Site of Fort Johnson

Site of

Fort Johnson

In 1776

Prior to the battle of Sullivan's Island

General William Moultrie here raised

The First Flag of Liberty

This building was a unit of the fort.

[Emblem: D.A.R.]

Placed by Rebecca Motte Chapter

Daughters of ...

John Walter

Co-laborer of Jacob Albright in founding of Evangelical Church, born 1791, died 1818, is buried in this cemetery. An effective preacher and hymn writer, he published the first songbook for his church.

Marker is on Jonestown Road 0.1 miles west ...