Johnston Schools / Johnston Educators

[Front] Johnston’s first school opened on this site in 1873. The Male and Female Academy was a boarding school, with Rev. Luther Broaddus as its first principal. Alternately a private and public school during its early history, it was reorganized ...

St. John African Methodist Church

This congregation was organized circa 1848. Early meetings were held in a log cabin at this location on land that was conveyed to trustees of the "Protestant Methodist Church" in 1850. In 1866 the members of the First Colored Methodist ...

Major John Buttrick House

Here was the home of the Colonial officer who led the advance to the North Bridge. With British soldiers firing directly at his men, Major John Buttrick gave the order, “Fire, fellow soldiers, for God’s sake, fire!” It was the ...

Major John Buttrick

Major John Buttrick

from this, his farm, led

the Provincial Minute

Men and Militia down

to win the bridge held

by the British forces

April 19, 1775

George Edward Messer

by his will provided

this memorial

erected by the town

Marker is at the intersection of Liberty Street and Estabrook Road, ...

Dr. John Evans

1814 – 1897

Doctor – Educator – Builder – Financier.

Attica, Indiana Doctor, 1839–1845

Founder: Indiana Hospital for Insane.

Chicago Mercy Hospital: City of Evanston, Ill.

Northwestern University - U. of Denver.

Rush Medical College Faculty.

Territorial Governor of Colorado.

Marker can be reached from South Perry Street, ...

LT John Philip Sousa Bandstand

This replica of the 1910 bandstand

upon which LT John Philip Sousa, USN

directed the Naval Training Center Band

was built from original plans in observance

of the Naval Training Center's

75th Anniversary.

Dedicated by NTC Commander

RADM Roberta Hazard, USN

July 2, 1985

Marker is on Decatur Avenue, ...

John Moore’s Tavern

1804 – 1817

Marker is on Lawrenceville Road (Main Street) (U.S. 206) 0 miles from Gordon Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

House of John Cutter

Site of the house

of

John Cutter.

Set on fire during the

British retreat,

April 19, 1775.

Marker is at the intersection of Massachusetts Ave and Mill St, on the right when traveling west on Massachusetts Ave.

Courtesy hmdb.org

St. John’s Church

(Episcopal)

Organized “in the Prairie” south of Greensboro

in 1834 by the Rev. Caleb Ives, pioneer

missionary to the old Southwest.

Admitted to parish status in 1838 by the

Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper, Provisional Bishop

of Alabama. First Rector

was the Rev. John Avery, D.D.

Present building designed ...

Packer John's Cabin

John Welch -- always known as Packer John -- hauled supplies from Lewiston to Idaho City during a major Boise Basin gold rush of 1863-1864.

He built a cabin (1/4 mile north of here) that immediately became an historic Idaho landmark. ...