Jerdone Castle

Much of Jerdone Castle’s original 1,100 acres is submerged under Lake Anna. The house was begun ca. 1742 by Francis Jerdone, a Scottish immigrant. Jerdone’s descendant, Sarah Jerdone Coleman, and her husband, Gen. Clayton Coleman, built the main Italianate section ...

John Wesley

Preached in the Court House

erected by Oglethorpe

on this lot,

from May 9, 1736

to November 27, 1737 (OS)

–•–

This tablet is here placed

on the bi-centenary of his birth

June 28, 1903

Marker is on Whitaker St near W. York St, on the left ...

Frederick Joseph DeLongechamps

June 2, 1882 – February 11, 1969

Frederick Joseph DeLongechamps was Nevada’s foremost architect of his time. Statewide he was prolific in the number of buildings he designed. From this point one can see a group of structures that stand, collectively, ...

St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church

Erected - 1910-1913

Saint James African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church has been located on Cypress Avenue since 1880 on land purchased from General Henry S. Sanford. The current structure was designed by Prince W. Spears and built in 1910-1913.

The ...

Major James Breathed

"Hardest artillery fighter the war produced"

Maj. James Breathed was born near present-day Berkeley Spring, W. Va., on December 15, 1838, and moved while young with his family to Washington Co., Md. He attended St. James School in Lydia, where his ...

John Paul Jones House

This tablet marks

the only home in America of

John Paul Jones

He was appointed a lieutenant

in the Continental Navy while

still a resident of Virginia

Marker is at the intersection of Lafayette Boulevard (U.S. 1) and Caroline Street (Business U.S. 17), on the right ...

The Johnson House

Built in 1768 for John Johnson. This was home to three generations of a Quaker family who worked to abolish slavery and improve living conditions for freed African Americans. In the 1850s the house was a station on the Underground ...

Early White Settlement / The Massacre of Jacob Hite

[Marker Front]:

Early White Settlement

By 1768 Indian traders and land speculators Richard Pearis (d. 1794) and Jacob Hite of Virginia acquired large tracts from the Cherokees in present-day Greenville County. Though royal authorities disputed the validity of these titles, Pearis and ...

The Saga of Gold Tooth John

(Or: How the Holiday Inn Central Came To Be)

First the Cherokee Indians were here.

Then the White settlers were here. Among the first of these was Edwin Plaster who built his home near here. He grew cotton on this plot of ...

John Scull Trading Post

In 1701, here, John Scull operated a trading post. He was the first known Englishman to visit the Indian village of "Shamokin" and was here as late as 1729. On October 17, 1750 Thomas and Richard Penn executed a deed ...