John Parke Custis

(west face)

Born at White House, New Kent County in 1755. Died at Eltham, New Kent County, November 1781, where his body remains.

This marker placed by the Sons of the Revolution in Virginia 1960

(south face)

While acting as aide to General Washington ...

Gen. John F. Reynolds

"Dear Kate"

On the last day of June 1863, Emmitsburg became a Union army supply base. Union Gen. John F. Reynolds, commanding the left wing of the Army of the Potomac (I, III, and XI Corps), arrived as I Corps came ...

John Speer Farmstead

Murphy-Bromelsick House

Abolitionist John Speer established a farmstead on this site shortly after his arrival in Kansas Territory in September 1854. A newspaper publisher from Pennsylvania, Speer became a part of the struggle to bring Kansas into the Union as a ...

Colonel John Brown

of Pittsfield, Mass.

killed October 19th, 1780 at Stone Arabia, N.Y. on his thirty-fifth birthday.

Was with Ethan Allen, May 10th, 1775.

Made a gallant attempt to retake the fort

September 17th to 22nd, 1777

but failed owing to ...

John B. White Sr., Blvd.

Dedicated July 1998

Owner and Founder of the World-Famous Beacon Drive-In, from 1946 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. White is truly an extraordinary person and one of Spartanburg's Treasures. His character is beyond reproach, his generosity boundless, and his many ...

"John Hoback , Guide of Astorians"

"John Hoback, Jacob Reznor and Edward Robinson, trappers from Kentucky, in 1811 guided the Astorians land expeditions land expedition under Wilson Price Hunt across the northern part of present Wyoming to the Snake River. From this Junction of the Snake ...

Wm. Johnston's Mill

About 0.3 mile upstream N. Fork Peachtree Cr., is the site of a mill owned by Wm. Johnston (1789-1855), -a landmark of Federal military operations in the Summer of 1864. Schofield’s 23d A.C., having crossed the Chattahoochee River at Isom’s ...

Olin D. Johnston Memorial Boulevard

Named in honor

of a distinguished South Carolinian

in recognition of his

contributions

to the life and welfare

of this state and its citizens

Member, House of Representatives

1923-1924 Anderson County

1927-1930 Spartanburg County

Governor

1935-1939 1943-1945

United States Senator

1945-1965

He worked tirelessly for

development of the

Savannah River Basin

Erected in 1985, the 50th ...

John Muir at Cedar Key

John Muir, noted naturalist and conservation leader, spent several months in Florida in 1867. He arrived at Cedar Key in October, seven weeks after setting out from Indiana on a "thousand-mile walk to the Gulf." Muir's journal account of his ...

John De La Howe School Lethe Farm Trail

Lethe Farm was a colonial and early federal period plantation owned by Dr. John de la Howe, founder of John de la Howe School. The farm was operated from about 1770 until 1806.

An archeological survey and limited test excavations were ...