Chief Joc-O-Sot

(The Walking Bear)

Distinguished Indian chief

Brave in war ... valiant in peace

Algonquin Nation ... Osaukee Tribe

Bear Clan

Born Saukeenuk, IA, 1810

Died Cleveland, 1844

After the Black Hawk War where Joc-O-Sot received the wound that finally caused ...

Moses J. Church

The Father of Fresno Irrigation. He was born in New York State in 1819, became a blacksmith and emigrated to California in 1852. He came to Fresno County in 1868 and employed by A. Y. Easterby, built the first irrigation ...

Journalist Dorothy Fuldheim

One of America's most admired women, pioneer television newscaster Dorothy Snell Fuldheim (1893-1989) began her career as a lecturer in the 1920s and entered broadcasting with a biographical series on WTAM radio in Cleveland. In 1947, Fuldheim joined Ohio's first ...

The Jeff Davis Artillery

Rodes's Division - Ewell's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Ewell's Corps Rodes's Division

Carter's Battalion Reese's Battery

The Jeff Davis Artillery

Four 3 inch Rifles

July 1 Was placed in position near here in support of Doles's Brigade against two Divisions of the Eleventh Corps which ...

Johnson-Schoolcraft Building 1926

William D. Schoolcraft and C. Paul Johnson, principals of Johnson-Schoolcraft, Inc., were the original owners of the Johnson-Schoolcraft Building, constructed in 1926. Mayor Ned Worthington led the dedication ceremony. Music was provided by Antonio Lopez and his Orange Grove Orchestra.

The ...

Birthplace of John L. Worden 1818-1897

Rear Admiral U.S. Navy

Commanded “Monitor” against

“Merrimac” Hampton Roads,

Virginia, March 9, 1862

Marker is on Albany Post Road (U.S. 9) south of Scarborough Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Printer John Miller

This London newspaper publisher and defender of a free press emigrated to Charleston in 1783 where he served as state printer and publisher of the first daily newspaper in South Carolina. Later in Pendleton he founded Miller's Weekly Messenger the ...

Jefferson Davis Bridge

Jefferson Davis

West Point Graduate

Class of 1828

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Services:

Indian Wars 1829- 1835

Member of Congress 1845-'46

Colonel U.S. Army

Hero of Buena Vista and Monterey

Secretary of War 1853-'57

Senator from Mississippi

1849-'51 1857-'61

President of

Confederate States of America

1861 - 1865

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A tribute from ...

John Shields

Lewis and Clark Expedition Member

[Marker Front]:

Shields, born 1769 in Virginia, served as a private for the entire Lewis and Clark Expedition from October 19, 1803 until October 10, 1806; one of its "Nine Young Men from Kentucky," he was a ...

"Old Judge Priest"

Here for six years presided William Sutton Bishop, the famed Judge Priest of Irvin S. Cobb's stories.

Judge Bishop, 1839~1902, was First District Circuit Court Judge from 1891 to 1897.

Served in 7th Ky. Conf. Inf.

"This was a man." ...