Johnston’s Headquarters

Established here on the night of March 18, 1865 and remained during the battle.

Mower’s Division came within 200 yards of this point in the Union assault of March 21.

Marker is at the intersection of Bentonville Road (County Route 1197) and ...

John Wesley

Preached in the Court House

erected by Oglethorpe

on this lot,

from May 9, 1736

to November 27, 1737 (OS)

–•–

This tablet is here placed

on the bi-centenary of his birth

June 28, 1903

Marker is on Whitaker St near W. York St, on the left ...

John Paul Jones House

This tablet marks

the only home in America of

John Paul Jones

He was appointed a lieutenant

in the Continental Navy while

still a resident of Virginia

Marker is at the intersection of Lafayette Boulevard (U.S. 1) and Caroline Street (Business U.S. 17), on the right ...

The Johnson House

Built in 1768 for John Johnson. This was home to three generations of a Quaker family who worked to abolish slavery and improve living conditions for freed African Americans. In the 1850s the house was a station on the Underground ...

The Saga of Gold Tooth John

(Or: How the Holiday Inn Central Came To Be)

First the Cherokee Indians were here.

Then the White settlers were here. Among the first of these was Edwin Plaster who built his home near here. He grew cotton on this plot of ...

John Scull Trading Post

In 1701, here, John Scull operated a trading post. He was the first known Englishman to visit the Indian village of "Shamokin" and was here as late as 1729. On October 17, 1750 Thomas and Richard Penn executed a deed ...

Gov. John Floyd

Near here is grave of John Floyd, 1783-1837. Governor of Virginia, 1830-1834; champion of the Oregon Country and of States' Rights; leader in the formation of the Whig Party; bitter foe of administration of President Andrew Jackson.

Marker is at the ...

Governor John Floyd

Born, Jefferson County, Kentucky,

April 24, 1783 a distinguished son

of the American frontier, he served

his nation as a soldier, physician,

and legislator. Following service

as an officer in the Virginia Militia,

and as a surgeon in the War of 1812,

he was elected to terms ...

Mower’s Charge Reaches Johnston’s Headquarters

In the field in front of you skirmishers from the 64th Illinois, armed with Henry repeating rifles, overran Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s headquarters, forcing the general and his staff to flee on foot toward Bentonville (to your left). Maj. Gen. ...

John Rutherfurd

1760 1961

In honor of

John Rutherfurd

1760 – 1840

U.S. Senator from N.J.

1791 – 1798

American patriot and statesman

for whom this borough was named.

Part of his estate, Edgerston Manor,

so named after the family seat in

Scotland, lay within the present

Borough of Rutherford.

Erected by

the people of ...