Brigadier General John Gibbon

(Front):John Gibbon

Brigadier General

July 2-3, 1863

At Gettysburg commanded 2nd Division, II Corps on July 3, 1863 serving with "conspicuous gallantry and distinction" in the repulse of Longstreet's Assault, until he was wounded and carried from the battlefield.

At the beginning of the ...

Joel Roberts Poinsett

1759 - 1851

Statesman • Diplomat • Naturalist

Founder, National Institution for the

Promotion of Science, forerunner of

the Smithsonian Institution

• First United States Minister to Mexico •

• United States Secretary of War •

While serving as Minister to Mexico in 1825, Poinsett ...

Joshua Houston

(c. 1822-January 8, 1902)

Born a slave and reared on the Alabama plantation of the Lea family, Joshua Houston was brought to Texas in 1840 by Margaret Lea and Sam Houston. During the years after the Civil War, he became a ...

Clifton Cliff Jail

Blasted from living rock this jail confined many of the bad men who crowed into the district in the boom days. Local tradition says that the first inmate in 1881 was the miner who built the jail. It was contributed ...

Jasper County / Jasper County Courthouse

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Jasper County

This county was established in 1912 from portions of Beaufort and Hampton counties and is named, it is said, for Sergeant William Jasper, hero of the American Revolution. The same act establishing the new county also designated ...

Lieutenant John Trout Greble

In memory of

first U.S. regular army officer

killed in action

during the Civil War

Lieutenant John Trout Greble

2d U.S. Artillery

USMA class of 1854

A member of this garrison

killed in action at Big Bethel

10 June 1861

USMA graduates Fort Monroe

10 June 1961

Marker is on Bernard Road, ...

The Storey County Jail

Comstock Historical Maker No. 17

This two-story jail was completed in 1877, and featured ten individual cells, each of which had bunk beds and “state of the art” plumbing for the day. Women were housed on the second level and men ...

John Mitchel

This Irish patriot, exiled from his homeland for revolutionary newspaper activities, settled in the cove about two miles from here in 1855. After a short stay he moved to Knoxville. The rest of his life was taken up with lecture ...

Old Franklin County Jail

Of Georgian design, this jail was built in 1818 and was in continuous use for 152 years. The third oldest building in the borough, it survived the burning of Chambersburg by Confederate forces during the Civil War.

Marker is at the ...

Cat Swamp Hijacking and Murder

In this area, on Cat Swamp Hill in Byram Township, at about 6:00 a.m. on June 14, 1921, the Sussex Print Silk truck was hijacked. Albert Koster drove onto the scene on his motorcycle, was mistaken for a state trooper, ...