Johnny Appleseed's Early Landholdings

This is the site of Johnny Appleseed's earliest known recorded landholdings. Appleseed (whose legal name was John Chapman) purchased two parcels from Joseph Walker on September 14, 1809: Mount Vernon town lot 147, upon which you stand, and lot 145, ...

Col. James S. McIntosh (1784-1847)

James S. McIntosh achieved an immortal record of gallantry in the War of 1812 and in the War with Mexico. In 1814 he saw considerable action on the Canadian border, he was severely wounded at Buffalo. In the Mexican War, ...

John Crowe Ransom &

The Kenyon Review

Side A:

In 1938 the president of Kenyon College, Gordon Keith Chalmers, brought one of the nation's most distinguished poets and critics, John Crowe Ransom, to the Gambier Hill. Chalmers brought Ransom to Kenyon College to create ...

John Fagan

John Fagan

Soldier in the Texas

War for Independence

at Goliad, 1835-1836

Marker can be reached from Hagy Drive 0.1 miles east of Charlotte Avenue, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Jail / Robert Mills

Lancaster County

[Marker Front]:

This is the "gaol" that Willis W. Alsobrook contracted to build for Lancaster District "…agreeable to the plans and specifications signed by Robert Mills…." In 1868 Lancaster District became Lancaster County and this structure became the Lancaster County ...

James Johnston

Georgia's First Newspaper Publisher & Printer

Here repose the remains of James Johnston (1738-1808) - - editor of Georgia's first newspaper.

A native of Scotland, Johnston settled at Savannah in 1761. "Recommended as a person regularly bred and well skilled in ...

New Jersey Patriots

In memory of those New Jersey Patriots

who served on land and sea during

the American Revolution, 1775 - 1783

And to

Captain Daniel Neil

who gave his life in the

Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777

while commanding the East Jersey Artillery under

Brigadier General ...

Colonel John Haslet

A Patriot of considerable distinction, Colonel John Haslet was the Commander of Delaware's first Continental Regiment. A native of County Londonderry, Ireland, he emigrated to America in 1757. Haslet was a graduate of the University of Glasgow, and and ordained ...

Jamestown (Indiana) War Memorial

Jamestown War Memorial

Dedicated to the

memory of all

Veterans of all Wars

Great is he who

lays down his life for

his Country in the name

of Freedom.

Erected by the people

in the year of Our Lord 1968

Marker is ...

J.J. Josey General Store

Built by John Crutcher in 1847 on the Plaza de Commercio in San Felipe, this was the last store built in the town after its 1836 burning by military order. Purchased in 1867 by Dr. J.J. Josey, it was in ...