The Rev. John Martin Bolzius -The Rev. Israel Christian Gronau

In this cemetery are buried the Rev. John Martin Bolzius and the Rev. Israel Christian Gronau, ministers who came to Georgia with the first company of Salzburgers. In March 1734, the Rev. Mr. Bolzius was Superintendent of the Latin Orphan ...

Major General John Sedgwick

(Left):Major General John Sedgwick

in command of

the Sixth Corps Army of the Potomac

at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg,

the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania

born at Cornwall, Conn. September 13th 1813

killed at Spotsylvania, Va. May 9th 1864

(Right):Erected by the State of Connecticut

in grateful memory of the service

given to ...

St. John's Church

This was the parish church of St. John's Parish, formed in 1680. It was built in 1734. Earlier churches stood at West Point and about one mile north of this site. Carter Braxton, Revolutionary Statesman, was a vestryman Preserved by ...

John Kiger's Second Lot

Sperryville Historic District

(Upper Plaque):This property

has been place on the

National Register

of Historic Places

(Lower Plaque):The Second of Two Lots

Owned by John Kiger

This Building Was A Blacksmith shop.

Conestoga Wagons Were Made Behind

This Building Near The Thornton River.

Marker is on Main Street, on the ...

In Memoriam John Clayton

1685 - 1773

The Garden club, Gloucester, VA, planted a live oak tree, April 2, 1957 near old clerk's office on Court Green in honor of the internationally revered botanist and for 51 years, 1722-1773, Clerk of Gloucester County, VA.

Scientiae Artis ...

Captain John Carpenter

In Memory Of

Captain John Carpenter

Born in London, England, 1628

Settled In

Stratford, Connecticut

Before 1646

He commanded the Jamaica Fusiliers

In the Defense of Fort James, New

York, When the Dutch Fleet Of

William of Orange Recaptured

New York From the English

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Presented by

The Connecticut Chapter

Of The National ...

John Williams, Howell Hoggett, William Atkinson, Daniel Hornsby

To John Williams and Howell Gaggett. Killed by Indians in May, 1836 while detailed from Captain John J. Tumlinson’s company of Rangers to help protect the families of the Hornsby’s settlement on returning from the “Run Away Scrape”.

To William Atkinson. ...

Site of John Bremond & Company

New York native John Bremond (1813-1866) built a dry goods store at this site as early as 1847. Soon, his dry goods department faced Pecan (Sixth) Street, and the grocery department faced Brazos Street. Active civically, he served as a ...

John B. Kiger

Sperryville Historic District

(Upper Plaque):This Property

has been placed on the

National Register

Of Historic Places

(Lower Plaque):John B. Kiger

well known wheelright

lived in this unique log and stone house

and built Conestoga wagons on this site

in the 1830s. One of his wagons is

on display at the ...

The Lighthouse & Informer / John H. McCray

(Front text)

The Lighthouse & Informer, long the leading black newspaper in S.C., was a weekly published here from 1941 to 1954 by journalist and civil rights advocate John Henry McCray (1910-1997). McCray, who founded and paper “so our people ...