John Shepherd - An American Hero

March 16, 1729 - January 3, 1847

Side A:

John Shepherd is believed to be the longest lived veteran of the American Revolution. He died at the age of 117 years, 9 months, and 18 days. He entered military service the first ...

Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy

of Massachusetts addressed

two thousand Romans from

this site September 29, 1960, in

his quest for the presidency

of the United States.

Marker is at the intersection of East Court Street and North James Street, on the right when traveling west on ...

John Brown's Last Stand

You are in the line of fire. The stone marker in front of you identifies the original site of the armory fire engine house - now known as John Brown's Fort. Barricaded inside the fort, abolitionist John Brown and his ...

John Mann House

Once the centerpiece of a 130 acre farm, this stone house and adjacent outbuildings were built by New York native John Mann in 1856. Of classical proportions, the vernacular Mann House displays a mixture of Greek Revival and Italianate architectural ...

In Memory of General John A. Sutter

Benefactor of the Great State of

Who mined here and gave Sutter Creek its name and under whose regime gold was discovered.

Also to those pioneer mothers, fathers and miners of the Mother Lode, which has produced millions is gold.

This rock used ...

Home of John Forsyth

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This house was part of the home of John Forsyth located on this property. As U.S. Minister to Spain, in 1819 Forsyth negotiated the treaty by which Florida was acquired by the United States.

He was Congressman from Georgia, 1813- 1818; ...

Fort Johnston

Built, 1748–54; burned by Whigs, 1775; rebuilt by U.S. government, 1794–1809. Only the officers quarters remain.

Marker is on East Bay Street east of South Davis Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of John George Ryerson House

Site of the

John George Ryerson House

Built about 1740

The Light Infantry Corps

commanded by Gen’l LaFayette

was encamped in this vicinity

Oct. – Nov. 1780

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Placed 1952 by

The Passaic County Park Commission

Marker can be reached from Goffle Road (County Route 659) north of Macfarlen Avenue, ...

Chief Justice John Edward Hickman

(1883 - 1962)

A distinguished chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and a native of Williamson County.

Descendant of 1849 settlers from Alabama, he was a son of Nathaniel Franklin and Mary J. Porterfield Hickman. He attended the Liberty Hill Normal ...

Fort Johnston

Guardian of the Cape Fear River

Confederate Lifeline. On January 9, 1861, as secession fever swept the South, an armed body of civilians overwhelmed Fort Johnston’s lone occupant, Ordinance Sgt. James Reilly, and demanded the keys. Reilly quickly surrendered them ...