"Jingle Bells"

James L. Pierpont (1822-1893), composer of "Jingle Bells", served as music director of this church in the 1850s when it was a Unitarian Church located on Oglethorpe Square. Son of the noted Boston reformer, Rev. John Pierpont, he was the ...

Johnny Cook

At the Battle of Antietam, 15-year-old Johnny Cook was the bugler for Battery B, Fourth United States Artillery. During the Union First Corps attack down the Hagerstown Pike, forty of the battery's one hundred men were killed or wounded. Johnny ...

Capt. John Porter / Chelsea China Company

Side A:Capt. John Porter(Aug. 7, 1838 - Feb. 7, 1893) Early developer of New Cumberland, he operated line of steamboats and barges on Ohio River, Chelsea China Co. & glass plants. Known as "brick king" he owned Sligo, Aetna, Eagle, ...

In Memory of John Bean, Ph.D., M.D.

John Bean was born in Attercliffe, Ontario, on September 8, 1901. He attended Stratford Collegiate Institute in Ontario and Northwestern College before transferring to the University of Michigan, where he earned his degrees and spent the rest of his life ...

Gen. James M. Gavin

1907-1990

US Army officer; he rose to lieutenant general, 1955. Military tactician & strategist of airborne operations and limited wars. In World War II a paratrooper, regimental & division commander, 82nd Airborne Division; was in Sicily, Salerno, Normandy, Holland invasions.

Marker is ...

Social Justice

Cultural Convergence

Straight ahead is All Souls Church, Unitarian, long known for its social activism, starting with abolitionism in the 1820s and ranging through nuclear disarmament and interracial cooperation. During the segregation era, All Souls was one of the few ...

New Jersey Korean War Memorial

Freedom is Not Free

[Following the title is a list of New Jersey veterans who died in the Korean War. See link below for a list of "those who did not return."]

Marker is at the intersection of Atlantic City Boardwalk and ...

Jackson's Command

Garland's Brigade, D.H. Hill's Division

C.S.A.

Jackson's Command,

Garland's Brigade, D.H. Hill's Division,

Col. D.K. McRae, 5th North Carolina, Commanding.

Organization.

5th, 12th, 13th, 20th, and 23d North Carolina Infantry.

(September 17, 1862.)

On the night of September 16, Garland's Brigade bivouacked in the fields south east of ...

John Steele

Congressman, 1789 – 93,

Comptroller of the

United States Treasury,

Federalist Party Leader.

Home stands 2 blocks

east.

Marker is at the intersection of N Main Street (U.S. 29) and E Miller Street, on the right when traveling north on N Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Jacksonville

Near this site, now inundated by the waters of Don Pedro Reservoir, stood the historic town of Jacksonville. It was settled by Julian Smart who planted the first garden and orchard in the spring of 1849. Named for Colonel A. ...