John Wormley

Memorial to

John

Wormley.

1757 - 1825

Founder of

Wormleysburg

Marker is at the intersection of North Front Street (U.S. 11) and Walnut Street (U.S. 15), on the right when traveling south on North Front Street.

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New Jersey 7th Brigade

Blizzards, extreme cold, lack of food and medical care -- All endured by the New Jersey Brigade in the winter of 1779-80 while it camped here and watched British movements in New York.

Marker is on Hardscrabble Road, on the right ...

Site of Colonel John Mehelm House

George Washington stayed in this house while his troops camped between White House and New Bromley.

House burned in mid 1960’s.

Marker is on New Bromley Road, on the right when traveling east.

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Professor John Metcalfe Starke / Starke University School

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Professor John Metcalfe Starke

"Fessor Starke" 1860-1941A native of Virginia, John Metcalfe Starke received his early education in Petersburg and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1882, earning diplomas in Latin and mathematics. He taught in Virginia and North ...

John Muir in Indianapolis

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Born 1838 in Dunbar, Scotland, Muir moved to the U.S. with his family, settling in Wisconsin 1849. As a youth, he became interested in nature and mechanical inventions. He attended the University of Wisconsin and was consumed ...

Jonathan Coggswell Farley / Montgomery's First Election

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Jonathan Coggswell Farley

1798-1864Farley acquired two lots on this site in 1817. Here he built both the town's first frame store and first frame two-story building, his house. In Farley's store, an election was held January 3, 1820 to create ...

Jacob J. Zabriskie House

Built c. 1826, this house combines the Federal style of architecture with that of the earlier Dutch Colonial. Erected by Jacob J. Zabriskie on the site of an earlier home, the farmhouse remained in the Zabriskie family for 132 years.

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Governor Jones House

Thomas Goode Jones, governor of Alabama from 1890-1894, occupied this house during his long political career which took him from the Montgomery City Council to a federal judgeship. During his two terms as governor, his home was the Executive Mansion ...

Smith - Joseph - Stratton House

Only surviving residence of former Mayor E.B. Joseph. the Italianate cottage was built c. 1855 by Pickett Chauncey Smith, a merchant in antebellum Montgomery, and father-in-law of E.B. Joseph, who occupied the house from 1880 to 1885. Joseph served on ...

Home of James Edward Wheat

Located on a 2,952.2-acre tract of Republic of Texas land awarded in 1838 to Dr. Josiah Wheat, an early settler of Tyler County, and donor in 1847 of 200 acres for county seat, soon named Woodville.

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