Joseph Winters

(c.1816-1916)

African American inventor who secured a U.S. patent for the first fire escape ladder and hose conductor in 1878. In 1879 Winters was issued a second U.S. patent for improvements to the original invention. Winters was active in the Underground ...

Jacob Nelson "Nellie" Fox

(1927-1975)

1997 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee. Second baseman for the Chicago White Sox (1950-1963). Known for his passion and work ethic, Fox was an AL MVP (1959), a 3-time Gold Glove Award winner, and a 12-time All-Star. His boyhood home ...

Jack London

To remember

JACK LONDON

The author

who immortalized

this locality in

”John Barleycorn”

and

”Tales of the Fish Patrol”

Marker is on First Street, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

General John Morgan

Marched north along this road on

Sunday, July 12, 1863

in

His raid across southern Indiana

Marker is on North Main Street north of East Tyson Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fort James

A mile and a half south of here on the Chickahominy River stood Moysonec, an Indian village. Some of the Chickahominy Indians residing there captured Captain John Smith in 1607. In the wake of the 1644 Indian uprising, the colonists ...

James Buchanan

15th President of the United States 1857 - 1861

James Buchanan, a Representative and a Senator from Pennsylvania and the 15th President of the United States; born at Cove Gap, near Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pa., April 23, 1791; moved to Mercersburg, ...

Benjamin Lundy Home / Free Labor Store

Benjamin Lundy Home:

After witnessing the slave trade in Wheeling, Virginia, Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) resolved to battle the institution, first organizing the Union Humane Society in St. Clairsville in 1815. In 1821, Lundy moved to Mount Pleasant and began ...

John D. Kilgore

Two Ridges Presbyterian Church

Brass plaque:

The Bell located in the tower above was donated by

John D. Kilgore in 1887.

The following inscription is found on the bell:

May the Glory of This Latter House Be Greater Than Any Former.

Church Organized 1802.

12 Pastorates ...

Jackson's Brigade.

Cheatham's Division - Hardee's Corps.

Jackson's Brigade.

Cheatham's Division - Hardee's Corps.

Brig. Gen. John K. Jackson.

Nov. 25, 1863, 5 p.m.

1st Georgia (Confederate) - Maj. J. C. Gordon.

5th Georgia - Col. Charles P. Daniel.

47th Georgia - Capt. J. J. Harper.

65th Georgia - Lieut. ...

At Navajo Springs

December 29, 1863 Arizona's Territorial officials took the oath of office during a snowstorm. Governor John N. Goodwin and other officials arriving from the east by wagon train, took their oaths of office and raised the U.S. flag "to establish ...