Jewish Colonists

Near this site on July 11, 1733, five months

after Oglethorpe founded Georgia, 42 Jewish

colonists, having sailed from London,

disembarked from the William and Sarah.

It was the largest group of Jews ever to sail

on one vessel from North America in Colonial ...

First Japanese on the North American Continent

In October 1832, the Japanese cargo ship Hojun Maru set sail from near Nagoya bound for Edo (present day Tokyo). Disabled in a storm off Enshu Nada, the Hojun Maru drifted for fourteen months before running aground on the coast ...

John S. Barbour’s Birthplace

Just to the south stood Catalpa, where John Strode Barbour was born on 29 Dec. 1820. In 1849, he was appointed the state’s representative on the board of directors of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. The board elected him president ...

Jim Bridger

Trapper 1844

He little knew that when he cut his name, or had it cut, in this stone, that it would be engraved in the annals of the West deeper than that of any other man. As one of the world's ...

James Hale Shooting

On Dec. 25, 1886, James Hale was gunned down here in front of the Brighton Saloon. His accused was never brought to trial. In 1894 this site, then called Hunter's Hall, held the first Presbyterian services in the Round Valley.

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Josiah Morris

1818-1891

Had his bank on this site 1852-1891. He helped finance Montgomery's business, railroads and industry. Here on Dec. 19, 1870, he bought 4150 acres of land and deeded them to the Elyton Land Co. which later was platted, and on ...

Jesus Martinez House

Jesus Martinez, a farmer from New Mexico, began construction on this adobe house in 1872. Completed in 1880, the U-shaped building had a traditional Sonoran flat dirt roof and central patio enclosed on three sides. By 1890 the house was ...

Jarman's Gap

Five miles east, formerly known as Woods’ Gap. Michael Woods, his three sons and three Wallace sons-in-law (Andrew, Peter, William), coming from Pennsylvania via Shenandoah Valley, crossed through this pass into Albemarle County in 1734 – pioneers in settling this ...

John Jackson—Traditional Musician

John Jackson, Piedmont guitar master and influential traditional musician, was born near here on

25 Feb. 1924. One of fourteen children of tenant

farmers Suddy and Hattie Jackson, Jackson learned

songs on the guitar and banjo from his parents,

traveling and local musicians, and ...

Joseph Udall Barn

Built in the early 1900's by one of Eagar's prominent civic, religious & business leaders, this barn was constructed with wooden pegs & retains remarkable architectural integrity. The 2-story brick farmhouse no longer stands.

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