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Harriet Jacobs

c.1813~1897

Fugitive slave, writher & abolitionist. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) depicts her early life. Lived in Edenton

Marker is at the intersection of North Broad Street (State Highway 32) and Gale Street, on the right when traveling ...

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St. Johns Episcopal Church

Seat of the first Non-Mormon congregation in Cache Valley, 1873. Gothic church and vicarage consecrated 1909. Logan’s first public Library and the Common Room Club housed in the vicarage.

Marker is at the intersection of 100 North and 100 East, on ...

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In Memory of Major Samuel Spotts U.S.A.

Who shot the first gun at the Battle of New Orleans Jan 8, 1815. Third Regiment Seventh Battery Artillery Corp. Born Nov 30, 1788 in New Orleans Louisiana.

Marker can be reached from Battlefield Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Boyhood Home of Jeremiah Curtin

(1835-1906)

Born in Detroit to Irish immigrant parents, Curtin came to Milwaukee in 1837 to join his mother’s family the Furlongs and settle on a farm in Greenfield. In the 1840’s the Curtins moved into this typically Irish stone house ...

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Grave of John Lynch

Founder of Lynchburg,

who was the proprietor of lands

upon which the city is built

and for whom the city is named.

A zealous Quaker, benevolent

gentleman and promoter of

whatever advanced the general

good of his community.

Born 1740

Died October 31, 1820.

Marker can be reached from the ...

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Julia Budge Nibley House

Built in 1914 - 15 by Charles W. Nibley for his third wife, Julia Budge, this two story house is an excellent example of the Prairie School style popular in Utah during 1905-25. The house was reportedly designed by Pope ...

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Jonas Stutzman

"Der Weiss"

Jonas Stutzman, from Somerset County, Pennsylvania, came to this site in 1809 to clear land for farming and to build a log home for his family. He was the first permanent settler in the eastern portion of what would ...

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Jean Nicolet Monument

Near This Spot Landed

1634

First White Man in Wisconsin

Jean Nicolet

Met the Winnebago Tribe

Held Earliest White Council

Erected by

Women's Clubs of Menasha

1906

Marker is at the intersection of Keyes Street and Cleveland Street on Keyes Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Rufus Z. Johnston

7 June 1874 - 4 July 1959

Rear Admiral Medal of Honor awarded 22 April 1914

Marker is on Court Square Drive just from W. Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Enroute to Jonesboro

Aug 26, 1864. The Federal Army of the Tenn., (15th, 16th and 17th corps) enroute to Fairburn & Jonesboro, camped on, and near, the Wilson plantation. Gen. John A. Logan (15th A.C.) had h’dq’rs at the Judge Wm. A. Wilson ...

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