Gravesite of General John Charles Frémont

1813 – 1890

Atop Rockland Cemetery lies the grave of he whose exploration in the 1840s opened the way west for countless settlers, who issued the first Emancipation Proclamation and who saved the west for the Union in 1861.

From the ashes ...

Major General John Reynolds

(Front):Major-General

John F. Reynolds

U.S.V.

(Left):Killed

at

Gettysburg

July 1

MDCCCLXIII

(Right):Born

at

Lancaster, Pa.

September XXI

MDCCCXX

(Back):To his memory

by the

first

Army corps

Marker is on Baltimore Pike (State Highway 97), on the right when traveling south.

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Johnny “Appleseed” Land Lease and Nursery

John “Appleseed” Chapman (b. September 26, 1774—d. March 18, 1845) was the first lessee of this 160 acre tract (NW ¼, S 20, T 20, R 16), when he secured it for 99 years from the Virginia Military District School ...

John Read, Gentleman

Home site of

“Lonetown Manor” where

John Read, Gentleman

after whom the town is named

settled in 1711

Title to the original 500 acres

was secured by colony grants

confirmed in 1714 by an Indian

deed from Chief Chickens

This tablet placed by Town of Redding

in 1935

Connecticuts ...

John H. Eaton

1790-1856

Secretary of War under Andrew Jackson; U.S. Senator from Tenn.; Fla. governor; U.S. minister to Spain. Born here.

Marker is on King Street 0 miles south of St. David Street, on the right when traveling north.

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John Ruch

Lived here. He came to Franklin Co. in 1872 from Ohio. In 1892, with the aid of J. B. Killebrew, agricultural agent of the N. C. & St. L. RR. and former State Commissioner of Agriculture, he imported from France ...

John Keating House

This single-story adobe, built in 1888, retains its basic integrity as an example of the symmetrical, pyramidal-roofed, Late-Transitional style. Keating was a pioneer stage driver. He served as a territorial legislator, Florence town councilman, and mayor of Florence. He wrote ...

John Nicholas Building

1886

Called the "New Beer Hall," this single-story, mud-roofed, one-room deep, adobe Sonoran-style house was said to be "the coolest place in town" by owner John Nicholas. In 1890, the Arizona Weekly Enterprise, Florence's second newspaper, leased the building for its ...

Fort Edward Johnson

On April 19, 1862, General Johnson, with General Lee’s approval, moved our regiment from Allegheny Mountain to Shenandoah Mountain. To protect ourselves from Yankee bullets, we dug about a mile of trench in this rocky ground. We then opened our ...

John Nicholas Saloon and Beer Hall

Designed by prominent Arizona Architect James M. Creighton, this is the oldest standing fired-brick building in Florence. Soon after completion, French-born rancher-farmer John Nicholas moved his saloon to this building in 1889. Tradition has it that Nicholas' patrons were cooled ...