San Juan Church

La Iglesia de San Juan Bautista was dedicated in 1887 and was restored by the New Mexico State Monuments in 1984.

Marker is on U.S. 380 at milepost 97.8, on the right when traveling east.

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Jonathan Hager

1714 1775

Founder of Hagerstown. Co-founder of this church. Buried west of main building.

Marker is at the intersection of N. Potomac Street (Maryland Route 60) and East Avenue, on the right when traveling south on N. Potomac Street.

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Jacksonville, Alabama

“Gem of the Hills”

Life here has long centered on education beginning in 1834 when a one-acre plot of land was reserved for a schoolhouse. Through the years, various institutions of higher learning developed that culminated into present-day Jacksonville State University. ...

Presidents of Jacksonville State

James G. Ryals, Jr. 1883-1885

J. Harris Chappell 1885-1886

Carleton B. Gibson 1886-1892

J. B. Jarrett 1892-1893

Jacob Forney, IV 1893-1899

Clarence William Daugette 1899-1942

Houston Cole 1942-1971

Ernest Stone 1971-1981

Theron E. Montgomery 1981-1986

Harold J. McGee 1986-1999

William A. Meehan 1999

Marker is on University Circle west of North ...

Jacksonville State University

This Educational Center of

Northeast Alabama Traces its Origin to

Jacksonville Male Academy 1836

Jacksonville Female Academy 1837

Calhoun College 1871

Calhoun Grange College 1878

State Normal School 1883

State Teachers College 1929

Jacksonville State College 1957

Jacksonville State University 1966

Erected February 22, 1983 in observance of ...

33d N.J. State Flag

July 20, 1864. To this high ground, 500 yds. in front of Geary’s div. (20th A.C.) [US] on Collier Rd., the 33d N.J. regt., Jones’ brigade, was sent to establish & support a battery position.

The regiment had scarcely reached this ...

Joseph William Burke

1835-1900

Lawyer, Industrialist, Patriot

Brigadier General, U.S.A.

Gen. Burke helped rebuild

Alabama’s mining & manufacturing

interests after the Civil War.

He helped establish the Catholic

Church at Jacksonville.

His home, “Bellevue,”

occupied the present site of

Jacksonville State College.

Marker is on University Circle west of ...

Jimmy "Popeye" Thomas

Osceola native Jimmy Thomas split his youth working in cotton fields and playing local juke joints. As a teenager, he joined Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm as lead singer, later performing with the Ike and Tina Turner Review. Settling in ...

Hainesville, New Jersey

The original name of "Sandyston" was changed to honor N.J. Governor Haines in 1845. This hamlet was created on a 1,000 acre plot purchased from the Gardner Tract by Simon Courtright before the Revolutionary War. Ownership passed to Peter Hotalen, ...

Thompson's Rifle Battalion: Capt. James Chambers' Company

Recruited in this part of Cumberland (now Franklin) County, Chambers' Company was a unit of the first battalion in the colonies authorized by Congress, in June 1775. From here this company marched about 450 miles to join the siege of ...