John Baxter

In the spring of 1849, John Baxter, his wife and 8 children moved to this site and built an inn and general store and offered food and lodging to travelers who passed along the Military Road. Baxter was a colorful ...

Governor Jonas Galusha Homestead

Jonas Galusha, born in Norwich, CT in 1753, moved his family to Shaftsbury in 1775. During the Revolutionary War he served with Seth Warner's Green Mountain Boys and was at the Battle of Hubbardton and a Captain during the Battle ...

Thomas Jefferson Rusk

Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas, Brigadier General of the Army and hero at San Jacinto, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas, United States Senator, he ...

Frontier Justice

On this site, Bridgeport's most sensational court trial occurred June 9th, 1891. Ah Quong Tai, a local Chinese businessman accused of the cannibalistic murder of Poker Tom, a well known Paiute Indian, appeared in court defended by two attorneys, J.C. ...

Thomas J. Jarvis

Governor, 1879 - 1885;

Minister to Brazil; U.S.

Senator; was born in a

house which stood here.

Marker is on Caratoke Highway (U.S. 158), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

John Parke Custis

(west face)

Born at White House, New Kent County in 1755. Died at Eltham, New Kent County, November 1781, where his body remains.

This marker placed by the Sons of the Revolution in Virginia 1960

(south face)

While acting as aide to General Washington ...

Lancelot Jacques

A French Hugenot who in partnership with Thomas Johnson in 1768 built "Green Spring Furnace." He and Johnson dissolved partnership in 1776 when Johnson became first governor of Maryland. Jacques' house built about 1766.

Marker is at the intersection of Big ...

Legend of June Lake Slot Machines

During the 1930's in central Mono County, demand for gaming entertainment skyrocketed with the influx of hundreds of employees working on the Mono Basin Project. To accommodate the workers, many local bars and cafes installed slot machines. Although illegal, there ...

Gen. John F. Reynolds

"Dear Kate"

On the last day of June 1863, Emmitsburg became a Union army supply base. Union Gen. John F. Reynolds, commanding the left wing of the Army of the Potomac (I, III, and XI Corps), arrived as I Corps came ...

“July” 1858

The Original July Foxhound

In July 1858 an Irish Foxhound arrived in Georgia as a gift from the noted hunter, Nimrod Gosnell of Roxbury Mills, Maryland to Colonel Miles G. Harris of Hancock County. The male puppy was named “July.” Col. ...