Joseph Schachten

A long line skinner, gave dignity to the job. He gave love to his noble animals and they gave to him their best.

In 1889 he delivered the first load of logs to the mines in Angels Camp, the last in ...

Major John Light

1755-1834

Served throughout the

Revolutionary War

Fought in Battles of

Lake Champlain

Princeton and Yorktown

Chief Burgess of Lancaster

Member of St. James Church

Marker can be reached from Orange Street.

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James River

The James River flows about 340 miles from the junction of the Jackson and Cowpasture rivers in Botetourt County to Hampton Roads at the Chesapeake Bay. In 1607 the first permanent English settlement in the New World was established on ...

Jasper Yeates

1746 - 1817

Member of

Committee of Correspondence

During Revolution

Judge of the Supreme Court

of Pennsylvania

Delegate to the State Convention which

Ratified the Constitution of

the United States

Man for Whom

Yeates School was named

Warden and Vestryman of

St. James Church

Marker can be reached from Orange Street.

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Jersey Central Lines

The Central Railroad of New Jersey mainline crossed here between 1852 to 1976. The CRRNJ was the primary artery of travel to western cities by immigrants entering the United States at Ellis Island and contributed to the suburbanization of Northern ...

Jessie Menifield Rattley Municipal Center

Newport News, Virginia

Jessie Menifield Rattley (1929-2001) was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She moved to the Virginia Peninsula to attend Hampton Institute. After graduating with honors in 1951, Mrs. Rattley established the first business department at Huntington High School. In 1952, ...

James Roy Hopkins

Side A:

James R. Hopkins was born May 17, 1877, in Irwin and graduated from Mechanicsburg High School in 1895. As a child, he gained exposure to art through his mother, Nettie, an accomplished self-taught water colorist. Hopkins enrolled at The ...

St. James' Church (Episcopal)

Founded 1744. Original structure built 1746-53; this building begun 1820. George Ross, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was vestryman. Buried here are the patriots Edward Shippen, William Atlee, Edward Hand, and Jasper Yeates.

Marker is at the intersection of Orange ...

Site of John C. Mason's Dwelling House

(Side 1):

John C. Mason, native of S.C., came to Putnam Co. from Hancock Co. with his wife Abigail and several small children. He bought this lot, Square E lot 4, on the first day lots were sold in Eatonton, April ...

John A Belt Building

Built 1903. According to an 1880’s newspaper report, John A. Belt was the proprietor of the largest mercantile establishment in Montgomery County. Belt’s store and upstairs hall, known as Norman Hall, became the pivotal structure of Gaithersburg’s social, cultural, ...