Major John Richardson

1796-1852

This pioneer historian, author and soldier was born in Queenston. His family moved to Amherstburg about 1802, and at the outbreak of the War of 1812 Richardson joined the British army. Retired on half pay in 1818 in London, England, ...

Dr. Noble Wimberly Jones

The Georgia Medical Society

1804-2004

Dr. Noble Wimberly Jones

Physician and resident of Savannah Georgia

American Revolutionary War veteran and patriot

Georgia Delegate to Continential Congress

First Georgia Medical Society 1804

"The Morning Star of the Revolution"

The Georgia Medical Society of Savannah

Georgia is the oldest Local Medical ...

John Jasper

John Jasper was born in a slave cabin on Peachy Plantation in Fluvanna County on July 4, 1812, and lived until 1901. In 1839, while working in a Richmond tobacco factory, he was "annointed by the Holy Ghost" and went ...

John T. Lesley Home

At this site, 407 East Street, was the home of John Thomas Lesley, built in 1897. Pioneer settler, soldier, statesman and entrepreneur, Lesley (1835 - 1913) was one of Tampa's greatest early leaders. A native of Madison County, Florida, he ...

Saint Joseph Catholic Church

In 1884, Bishop John Keane bought this property and established Saint Joseph, making it the first-known Catholic congregation organized for African Americans in Virginia. The original congregation began in the basement of the all-white Saint Peter's Church in 1879, and ...

Jonathan Dickinson Shipwreck

Three miles to the east on September 23, 1696, the British barkentine Reformation foundered off Jupiter Island. The 24 survivors included a party of Quakers bound from Jamaica to Pennsylvania. Leader of the Quakers was Jonathan Dickinson who described the ...

Ft. Jupiter - Jupiter Lighthouse

Fort Jupiter was located three miles west on Loxahatchee River, erected January 1838 by troops commanded by Major General Thomas S. Jessup, establishing base for operations in the Seminole Indian Wars.

Jupiter Lighthouse, approximately one mile northeast, first lighted July ...

St. Joseph's Church

Organized in 1882 by the Rev. Ignatius Jascovich, pioneer Slovak Catholic priest, St. Joseph's is the oldest Slovak Roman Catholic parish in the Western Hemisphere.

Marker is on North Laurel Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Honor Roll of St. Joseph’s Parish

Honor Roll of

St. Joseph’s Parish

Rev. Leo Kroner, Pastor

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Killed in Action

*Salvick, John J.

*Saferanko, Andrew

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Kashak, J.J. •

Beckley, Stephen A. •

Cundra, Joseph J. •

Hama, J. J. •

Dill, J. J. •

Yurovchak, John J. •

Hudak, J. A. • ...

Strolling Jim

Strolling Jim, the first World's Champion Tennessee Walking Horse, is buried in a pasture directly behind the Walking Horse Hotel. Foaled in 1936, this former work horse was ridden to the championship by Floyd Carothers at the first Walking Horse ...