Jémez Mountains

(side one)

On the skyline to the west are the Jémez Mountains where tremendous volcanic eruptions a million years ago created a huge caldera some 15 miles in diameter that now forms beautiful Valle Grande set amid a ring of volcanic ...

Jones County

This County, created by Act of the Legislature Dec. 10, 1807, is named for James Jones of Savannah, a legislator at 23 and member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1798 in which year he was elected to Congress. The ...

General James Screven

Killed in Battle Here

On November 24, 1778, General James Screven

was mortally wounded in a battle fought near

this spot.

With General Screven in the action

were Major James Jackson, Colonel John White,

Capt. Celerine Brusard and Capt. Edward Young,

with 100 Continentals and 20 ...

Coaches James G. Deegan and James J. Phelan

Universitas Sanctae Mariae Ad Montes Marylandia Fundata Ab Joanne DuBois

This boulder honors Coaches James G. Deegan and James J. Phelan for their combined century of dedicated service to Mount St. Mary's University. For over five decades these two men coached ...

St. James Church

St. James Church

Established Fron England In 1732 By

The Venerable Society For The Propagation

Of The Gospel In Foreign Parts

In 1797 Re-named

St. Johns Church

Marker is on Church Street near West Main Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Joseph J. Manor Cemetery

Joseph J. Manor (1818-1884) came to Texas from Tennessee at age twenty, settling finally in Webberville, where he acquired land and opened a store and cotton gin. He married Caroline Scott (1830-1851) in 1847; both are laid to rest here, ...

Major John B. Jones

1834-1881

Famed defender of the frontier. Instilled ideals of excellence into Texas Rangers.

Born in South Carolina. Came to Republic of Texas 1839. Educated at Old Baylor and Rutersville, where students had to defend school from Indian attacks.

In Civil War, 1861-65, served ...

James Wales Jones

Born in Georgia, 1797

One of the “Old Three Hundred” Austin colonists

A soldier in the Texas War for Independence

Died 1847

His wife, Hetty Stiles Jones

Died 1899

Marker can be reached from Navasota Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Claudia Taylor Johnson Hall

The University of Texas System

Constructed during the period 1912-1914. This building was the seventh United States post office location in Austin, Texas. The supervising architect for the Neoclassical revival style structure was James Knox Taylor of the U.S. Treasury Department. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"I must say, having been here at three o'clock in the morning and now at six-thirty in the evening, that Waterbury is either the easiest city in the United States to get a crowd in, or it has the best ...