Johnston Moves West

Logisticians at Work

(Preface) The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the March to the Sea. Sherman’s objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in ...

San José De La Laguna Mission

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The picturesque mission church of San José de la Laguna was built around 1706 by Fray Antonio Miranda and shows the single – aisle floor plan commonly used in pueblo churches. It has been repaired many times, and ...

John Hanson

Honored Patriot of the American Revolution

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John Hanson

Honored Patriot of the American Revolution

[Picture of John Hanson and Seal of the "Sons of the American Revolution"]

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Born 3 April, 1721, Mullberry Grove, Charles Co., MD.

Died 15 November 1783 at the original ...

John Hanson

President of the United States in Congress Assembled, 1781-2, died November 15, 1783 at “Oxon Hill” 1½ miles west of here. The original mansion house, built by the Addison family, was burned February 6, 1895.

Marker is on Oxon Hill Road ...

Birthplace of Jeremiah John Snow / China Grove Plantation

Birthplace of Jeremiah John Snow. China Grove was the birthplace of the Reverend Jeremiah John Snow (1836–1892), a son of the third James Snow who lived here. He entered the Methodist Conference in 1863, and was a chaplain in the ...

Joseph Alston

Joseph Alston (1779–1816) was educated at the College of Charleston and at Princeton. He inherited The Oaks Plantation and in 1801, married Theodosia, daughter of Aaron Burr. Alston was a member of the S.C. House (1802–12), its speaker for five ...

J.P. Schneider Store

In the mid-1860s, shortly after the Civil War, Jacob Peter “Jake” Schneider (1852-1925) began working in William Brueggerhoff’s general mercantile store, and part-time as a legislative page in the Capitol. About 1870, he and his mother, Margarita Schneider, opened a ...

Joshua Barney's Barge and the Chesapeake Flotilla

Joshua Barney's Barge is a 4/5 scale, authentic working replica of an American warship of the Chesapeake Flotilla from the War of 1812. This barge was built as a project of the Prince George's County tricentennial in 1996 by The ...

Maj. William C. Preston C.S.A

Commanding Artillery Battalion attached to Alexander P. Stewart’s Corps [CS] - killed in action while supervising placement of two sections of Selden’s Ala. Battery, Lt. Chas. W. Lovelace, commanding, near the Embry House, July 20th, 1864, during the Battle of ...

St. John Church

German settlers who came to Richland community in the 1860s worshiped originally in private homes. Nineteen charter members, under leadership of the Rev. G. Haehnelt, organized the St. John German Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1878. Church land was given for ...