William Ransom Johnson

1782-1849

William Ransom Johnson lived near here at Oakland. Called the “Napoleon of the Turf,” he dominated American horseracing early in the 19th century. He trained more than 20 champions and achieved national fame from the 30 North-South match races held ...

Jefferson Rock

Twenty years before Lewis came to town, his mentor, Thomas Jefferson, wrote about the view from this rock. Jefferson's comments on the landscape were published in Notes on the State of Virginia. That book provided a model for Lewis as ...

St. John's Episcopal Church

These weathered ruins are all that remain of St. John's Episcopal Church - one of Harpers Ferry's five earliest churches.

Built in 1852 with money provided by church fairs, St. John's served as a hospital and barracks during the Civil War ...

Captain Benjamin F. Eddins

Born in South Carolina in 1813, Benjamin Farrar Eddins raised and led a company of volunteers that served in the 41st Alabama Infantry Regiment.

Retired due to ill health, he returned to lead the Home Guards, a militia made up of ...

Captain John Warren House

Built 1737

French Navy Artillery

Headquarters 1780 - 1781

Marker is on Washington Street near Elm Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fort Jennings

Anthony Wayne Parkway

On Sept. 21, 1812, Col. William Jennings, with his regiment of Kentucky riflemen, was ordered by Gen. W. H. Harrison to cut a road from Fort Barbee at St. Marys to a point midway between that place and ...

Ada James

1876 – 1952

Born in Richland Center, Ada James was an important suffrage leader, campaigning throughout Wisconsin in support of women’s right to vote. In 1919, James mobilized her father, a state legislator, to deliver Wisconsin’s ratification papers to Washington, D. ...

Thomas Heyward, Jr.

House, circa 1803

A South Carolina Signer of the

Declaration of Independence

Has Been Placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Meeting Street and Lamboll ...

General John Coffee

Through his personal and business relationship with Andrew Jackson, Gen. Coffee led Jackson's cavalry in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 and became a celebrated American hero.

Inducted 2007

City of Florence

Walk of Honor

Marker is on Hightower Pl..

Courtesy ...

Major General George Washington Goethals' Home

1888~1907

The great engineering genius of the Panama Canal lived at this site from 1888 until 1907.

As a young lieutenant, Gothals was sent to Florence to speed up the work on the Muscle Shoals Canal Project which effectively by~passed the serious ...