John Jackson—Traditional Musician

John Jackson, Piedmont guitar master and influential traditional musician, was born near here on

25 Feb. 1924. One of fourteen children of tenant

farmers Suddy and Hattie Jackson, Jackson learned

songs on the guitar and banjo from his parents,

traveling and local musicians, and ...

John Allan Wyeth

M.D., L.L.D.

Confederate Soldier

Surgeon and Author

Born

Marshall County, Ala. 1845

Died

New York City 1922

Founder of the

New York Polyclinic

Medical School and Hospital

and of Graduate Medical and

Surgical Teaching in America.

Marker is at the intersection of South Bainbridge Street and Dexter Avenue, on the right ...

John McClinton Tutt

1886-1968

For over six decades, John Tutt educated Augusta's youth at the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute and Lucy Craft Laney High School. After graduating from Lincoln University in 1905, Tutt returned to Augusta to teach Mathematics. Coach Tutt's teams amassed ...

John Wormley

Memorial to

John

Wormley.

1757 - 1825

Founder of

Wormleysburg

Marker is at the intersection of North Front Street (U.S. 11) and Walnut Street (U.S. 15), on the right when traveling south on North Front Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of Colonel John Mehelm House

George Washington stayed in this house while his troops camped between White House and New Bromley.

House burned in mid 1960’s.

Marker is on New Bromley Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Professor John Metcalfe Starke / Starke University School

Side A

Professor John Metcalfe Starke

"Fessor Starke" 1860-1941A native of Virginia, John Metcalfe Starke received his early education in Petersburg and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1882, earning diplomas in Latin and mathematics. He taught in Virginia and North ...

John Muir in Indianapolis

Side one

Born 1838 in Dunbar, Scotland, Muir moved to the U.S. with his family, settling in Wisconsin 1849. As a youth, he became interested in nature and mechanical inventions. He attended the University of Wisconsin and was consumed ...

St. John's Episcopal Church

Organized 1834

Present building erected 1855 under rectorship of Nicholas Hamner Cobbs, first Bishop of Alabama. Primary convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America was held here, July 3-6, 1861.

Charles Minnegerode Beckwith, fourth Bishop of Alabama, ...

The "John Randolph"

1834 1919

This tablet commerates

The "John Randolph"

the first iron vessel seen in

American waters

Riveted together and launched here in 1834,

the plates having been made by John Laird

of Birkenhead, England, and shipped to this

port in sections

Built for Gazaway B. ...

John Mitchell’s Map

Born in Lancaster County on 13 Apr. 1711, John Mitchell studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and in 1734 opened a practice of medicine here in Urbanna. In 1746, he moved to London, where he published his Map of ...