Home of Johnny Mize

“The Big Cat”

National Baseball Hall of Fame member John Robert Mize was born in this house in 1913. While only 15 years old and still in high school, Mize launched his distinguished baseball career playing for Piedmont College. He began ...

John Boggs Memorial

(West Face)

Capt. John Boggs, born in Western Penn. 1738. Married Jane Irwin and raised a large family on the frontier. Near Wheeling W.Va. one son Wm. was taken prisoner by the Indians, in view of his Fathers cabin, ...

St. John's Church

Hampton, Virginia

The oldest Anglican parish in continuous existence in America. Established in 1610, this is the fourth church built in the parish. It was erected in 1728 in the shape of a Latin cross. Its walls are two feet ...

Johnson's Brigade

Cheatham's Division - Polk's Corps

C.S.

Johnson's (1st) Brigade,

Walker's 2d Tenn., 15th Tenn., Blythe's Miss., 154th Tenn.,

Cheatham's (2d) Div., Polk's Corps.

Army of the Mississippi.

This brigade, its regiments in order from left to right as above, came up with and reenforced the brigades ...

St. John’s Church

The Venerable Survivor

When Confederate Gen. John B. Magruder learned that the Federals intended to house troops and escaped slaves in Hampton, he burned down the town. Local soldiers, led by Capt. Jefferson C. Phillips, completed this “loathsome yet patriotic act,” ...

Wesley Chapel Trinity / John Wesley's American Parish

(Side 1):WESLEY CHAPEL TRINITY

In 1812 The Methodist Church in Savannah was formally established with the founding of Wesley Chapel at Lincoln & Oglethorpe Streets. Bishop Francis Asbury dedicated that building in 1813. In 1848 the congregation built a new church ...

John Wesley (1703-1791)

On February 6, 1736, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, landed at Peeper (now Cockspur) Island near here and there preached to his fellow voyagers his first sermon on American soil. A monument has been erected on Cockspur Island to ...

Major John Pelham, C.S.A.

Commanding

the Stuart Horse Artillery

was mortally wounded

at this site in

The Battle of Kelly's Ford

March 17, 1863

Erected 1981

by Admirers of

The Gallant Pelham

Marker can be reached from Kelly's Ford Road (County Route 674), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

St. John’s Evangelical Protestant Church

The first church at the town site of Cullman. Founded May 1, 1874, at the beginning of the second year of settlement.

An ethnic German church formed by immigrant families. Services held exclusively in the German language until 1932. In 1937, ...

John Baptist Pierce

(1875-1942)

Cooperative Extension Service pioneer, innovator, and educator, John Baptist Pierce was appointed in 1906 by Seaman Knapp and H. B. Frissell of Hampton Institute as the first Negro farm demonstration agent for Virginia. Pierce served for 35 years as district ...