John Harvard's Land

1630 - 1930

In 1638 this tract of about one hundred and twenty acres was granted by the town of Charlestown to its Teaching Elder John Harvard. He died the same year, aged thirty-one, leaving half his property to the College ...

Captain John Heald

1630 - 1930

Here was the home of Captain John Heald, first selectman of Acton, who on April 19, 1689, marched to Boston with a military company to assist in the overthrow of Sir Edmund Andros.

Marker is on Carlisle Road 0.6 ...

The Johnson Massacre

1630 - 1930

John Johnson and three children were killed by Indians in his house on this spot August 25, 1696. His wife was saved by her brother.

Marker is on Massachusetts Route 12 0.1 miles from Johnson Lane, on the right ...

Homesite of John S. Roberts

(1796-1871)

A native of Virginia, came to Texas in 1826.

An active participant in the struggle for Texas Independence. One of the leaders in Battle of Nacogdoches. Delegate to Consultation, November 3, 1835. Commanded the Nacogdoches Company in storming of Bexar, December ...

John Paul Jones Memorial

[North Face inscriptions - above and beneath Captain Jones' statue:]

John Paul Jones

1747-1792

First to compel foreign man-of-war to strike colors to the Stars and Stripes.

[South Face inscriptions - above and beneath a bas relief rendering of ...

John Barry Memorial

John Barry,

Commodore, United States Navy.

Born County Wexford, Ireland, 1745;

Died in Philadelphia, 1805.

Marker is on 14th Street, NW just north of I (Eye) Street, NW, on the right when traveling north.

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John Wilkes Booth and David Herold

John Wilkes Booth and David Herold remained hidden from April 16 to 21, 1865 in a nearby pine thicket, while Union troops searched for them. Thomas A. Jones brought them food and the newspapers.

Marker is at the intersection of Bel ...

John Hunn

1814 - 1894

Chief engineer of the Underground Rail Road in the State of Del. and the richest man in Del. He was convicted and fined in 1846 by the U.S. Dist. Court, later he was fined twice for $10,000.00 each ...

713 Johnson

Designed in 1908 by Victorian architects Thomas Hooper and Charles Elwood Watkins

This building is a good example of Edwardian commercial architecture. It was built for William James Marble as a carriage factory, replacing the original wooden structure from 1885. Early ...

John McCabe

Patriot of the American Revolution

Born in 1727, and a resident of this area by the 1750s, John McCabe was among the first to enlist when Delaware's Continental Regiment was reorganized in the winter of 1776-1777. An ardent supporter of Independence, ...