John Wise House

1630 - 1930

Erected in 1701 by John Wise, pastor of the Chebacco parish of Ipswich, now Essex. Son of a laborer, Harvard graduate, army chaplain, protestant against taxation without representation and against the witchcraft delusion, defender of democracy in the ...

Nelson John Dunlap

Here in honored glory rests the last

Union Civil War veteran of Ross County

Nelson John Dunlap

May 30, 1843 - December 9, 1942

USS Hastings, Mississippi Squadron, U.S. Navy

May their deeds and sacrifices

by kept ever green in our memory

September 8, 2007

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John Harte McGraw

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This commemorates the services of an energetic and wise leader in many enterprises undertaken for the general welfare especially the project for connecting Lake Washington with tide water by a ship canal

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Governor of the

State ...

Johnson J. Hooper

1815 - 1861

Author, Editor, Lawyer

Secretary of Congress, C.S.A.

As a writer he created

Captain Simon Suggs

of the Tallapoosa Volunteers,

fictional character whose

humorous, rascally escapades

of pioneer days in Alabama

became world famous.

Marker is at the intersection of North Broadnax Street and East Cusseta Street, on ...

St. John's Lodge

First Masonic lodge in North Carolina. Est. in 1754. Building erected 1804, used until 1825, is one block west.

Marker is on South 3rd Street (U.S. 74) 0.1 miles north of Orange Street, on the right when traveling south.

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John Burgwin

1731-1803

Merchant, planter, and colonial official. Built this house, 1770-1771. His "Hermitage" estate was eight miles north.

Marker is at the intersection of North 3rd Street (U.S. 74) and Market Street, on the right when traveling south on North 3rd Street.

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Frederick Douglass and John Brown

The two abolitionists met at a stone quarry here, Aug. 19-21, 1859, and discussed Browns plans to raid the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. He urged Douglass to join an armed demonstration against slavery. Douglass refused, warning the raid would ...

Rev John Corbley

1733 - 1803

A noted Baptist minister serving area congregations, Corbley was among some 150 men arrested by federal troops on the “Dreadful Night" of November 13, 1794. A vocal opponent of the excise tax on whiskey, he was the area’s ...

Sir Knight John W. Smith / Daniel D. Vanderslice

Sir Knight John W. Smith

Died in Memphis Tenn. Dec. 18, 1877

Aged 86 years

A Master Mason, Royal Arch

and Knight Templar

62 years a Mason and

first Deputy Grand Master

of the Grand Lodge of Kansas

Erected by the Masonic Fraternity

of Kansas in memory of the

first ...

John Howard Payne

Author of "Home,Sweet Home," suspected as a spy of the Cherokee Indians was imprisoned here in 1835, but released.

Erected by Old Guard of Atlanta

Oct. 6, 1922;

Jos. A. McCord; Commandant

Marker is at the intersection of Georgia Route 225 and Georgia ...