John Houston Squires

(1882-1934)

Class of 1905

Master of Science 1906

A distinguished scientist, John H. Squires had a brilliant career as a chemist with E.I. DuPont de Nemours, GM Corporation, and American Cyanamid. He also taught at a college and was instrumental in reorganizing and ...

John McLaren McBryde

(1841-1923)

President 1891-1907

Known as the “Father of VPI,” John McLaren McBryde laid the foundation for modern Virginia Tech. He increased bachelor's degree offerings, added graduate programs, created an infirmary, and christened the motto Ut Prosim. The first president to encourage formation ...

The House of John H. Stevens

The US Post Office stands on the site of the first permanent dwelling in what is now Minneapolis. The land was part of the Fort Snelling Military Reservation in 1849, but the army allowed John H. Stevens to build a ...

St. John Lutheran Church

St. John Lutheran Church dates to 1917, when area Lutherans joined with the Rev. Arthur E. Hartmann, pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church (Taylor), to organize a new congregation. Members met in the public school and in homes until constructing ...

John G. Matthews

Tennessee native John Giles Matthews came to Texas with his parents in 1839 and settled in the new town of Austin. A Ranger for the Republic of Texas, Matthews served in the Mexican War and the Civil War before moving ...

John William Hancock Jr.

(1904-1994)

Class of 1925

Member, Board of Visitors 1963-1971

Board Chairman, Virginia Tech Foundation

1969-1973, 1986-1991

A generous benefactor of his Alma mater, John W. Hancock Jr. was an astute businessman who founded Roanoke Electric Steel Corporation and John W. Hancock Jr. Inc. He was ...

John Wesley Powell

From Green River, Wyoming on May 24, 1869 Major John Wesley Powell and a group of voyagers set out to discover the mysteries of one of the last unexplored regions in the continental United States--the Green and Colorado Rivers. Powell ...

Johnson School-house Game Refuge

175 acres, purchased May 25, 1926, from L. Atwood Bennett, attorney for mortgagee; from hunter’s license fund for the purpose of propagating game.

Marker is on Mt. Olive Road 0.6 miles south of Johnson Road, on the left when traveling south. ...

Death of Gen. John Hunt Morgan

"... bring Morgan out dead or alive."

On September 3-4, 1864, Lt.Col. William H. Ingerton led the 13th Tennessee Cavalry (USA) to Greeneville's outskirts, where he learned that Gen.John Hunt Morgan was at the Dickson-Williams Mansion. He told his company commanders, ...

John Gunter

Buried near here in 1835

John Gunter

Founder of Guntersville.

He and his wife Catherine,

daughter of

a Cherokee Indian chief,

were the

great-grandparents of

Will Rogers

beloved American humorist.

Marker is at the intersection of Florida Short Route/Gunter Avenue (U.S. 431) and Lurleen B Wallace Drive, on the right ...