Gen. John B. Castleman House

This house was built prior to 1900 by Gen. John B. Castleman, a veteran of the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. Gen. Castleman, from Louisville, KY., used this as his winter home for many years.

The General was active ...

John Street Church

Heritage Trail

John Street Church is the oldest Methodist Society in continental America and is the mother church of American Methodism. The Society was organized in New York in 1766 by Philip Embury, and ardent Irish Methodist and former Wesleyan ...

John Street Methodist Church

Landmarks of New York

The oldest Methodist Society in America organized in 1766 by Philip Embury and Barbara Heck constructed here in 1768 Wesley Chapel, the first Methodist meeting house in America. The present church, the third on this site, ...

John Street Methodist Church

Landmarks of New York

The oldest Methodist Society in America organized in 1766 by Philip Embury and Barbara Heck constructed here in 1768 Wesley Chapel, the first Methodist meeting house in America. The present church, the third on this site, ...

John C. Hale

John C. Hale, one of nine patriots killed at the Battle of San Jacinto, was born in Scott County, Virginia on April 3, 1806. He married Barshaba Miller in his home state in 1830, and by 1835 moved with his ...

John W. Carey

Founder of Anna, Ohio

John W. Carey was born in 1805 in West Virginia [sic - Virginia] and came to Shelby County with his parents, Cephas and Jane Williamson Carey. Around 1833, J.W. Carey bought a thousand acres in Dinsmore Township, ...

Dr John Sebastian Helmcken

(1824-1920)

Dr Helmcken earned acclaim for his work as a physician, colonial legislator and negotiator of British Columbia’s entry into Canada.

This statue, created by Armando Barbon and Gabriele Vicari, was donated to the Royal BC Museum by the family of Yole ...

John Moses Browning Home

Utah Historic Site

Home constructed of sandstone blocks and red bricks. Completed in 1900. Built for John Moses Browning --- world famous gun maker. Architect Sam Whittaker. Purchased by Y.W.C.A. of Ogden in 1949

Marker is on 27th Street near Adams Avenue. ...

Gen'l Joseph E. Johnston

Gen'l Joseph E. Johnston,

Confederate States Army,

desperately wounded at the

Battle of Seven Pines,

was brought to the

Crenshaw residence

standing on this block,

and nursed to recovery.

This marker is placed by the

Confederate Memorial Literary Society.A.D.1915

Marker can be reached from the intersection of East Broad Street ...

Donald Grady Davidson (1893~1966) John Crowe Ransom (1888~1974)

Giles County natives Donald G. Davidson and John C. Ransom were influential personages in American literature. Professors at Vanderbilt University, they helped found The Fugitive (1922~25), a magazine which launched the "Southern literary renaissance." They contributed to the essential Agrarian ...