The Route of the Hiawatha- Johnson’s Big Cut

“Fire in the Hole!”

In 1908, a Milwaukee contractor named Johnson needed to blast out a path through the rock face next to the Barnes Creek Trestle, #218. Blasters chiseled out five “coyote holes”, stuffed them with 25,000 pounds of blasting ...

Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church

This one-story Victorian Gothic structure dates back to 1870. The cornerstone of the church indicates that the building was constructed in 1870 with the basement added in 1890. This suggests that the original wooden church was raised, a basement added, ...

John Brown

(California’s Paul Revere)

In 1846, during American conquest of California, John Brown, nicknamed “Juan Flaco,” rode from Los Angeles to San Francisco in four days to warn Commodore Stockton of the siege of Los Angeles. As a result, troops were ...

St. John’s Cemetery

This burial ground is located on the site where the first Swedish Methodist church in the Brushy Creek area was located. In the early 1870s, Swedish immigrants began to settle in this area and by the early 1880s, Pastor C.C. ...

Fanny Dickenson Scott Johnson

In this valley in June 1785, Fanny Dickenson Scott's husband, Archibald Scott, their four children and a young male member of the nearby Ball family were killed by members of four different Indian tribes. The rest of the Ball family ...

General John “Black Jack” Pershing

1860-1948

Spanish American War

Mexican Expedition

General of the Armies

World War I

Attended the dedication of Monument Park as keynote speaker in 1908

Marker is at the intersection of Palisade Avenue and Angioletti Place, on the left when traveling south on Palisade Avenue.

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John Prince Elton

John Prince Elton

1865 – 1948

Mayor of the City of Waterbury 1903 – 1905

Bequeathed to the city this site on which

was the home of the Elton Family. True to

the tradition of hid forebears, he devoted

his lifetime to the industrial, civic, and

cultural ...

John Adam Treutlen

[South Face]:

John Adam Treutlen

1733 - 1782

First Constitutional Governor

of

The State Of Georgia

Elected May 1777

[East Face]:

John Adam Treutlen

He was a member of the First Provincial Congress Of Georgia, meeting in Savannah July 4, 1775, and was appointed to the Committee of Safety, ...

John Banister Tabb

Patriot

Father John Bannister Tabb was born in Amelia County in 1845 at “The Forest”, the Tabb family plantation. A member of one of wealthiest families in Virginia, he was carefully schooled by private tutors until the age of 14, when ...

Home of William Samuel Johnson

Home of

William Samuel

Johnson

One of the Framers

Of the Constitution

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Connecticut Route 113) and West Broad Street, on the right when traveling south on Main Street.

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