John Herbert Brooks

An Atlantic City native, Brooks spent his early years in a life and death struggle with drug addiction. After conquering his own addiction, he worked to deter others from substance abuse. In 1969, Brooks co-founded NARCO, Inc., and, with volunteers, ...

Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart

[Monument's east side]:

Commanding Cavalry Corps

Army Northern Virginia

Confederate States of America

***

This statue erected by his comrades

and the City of Richmond

A.D. 1906

[Monument's south side]:

“Tell Gen. Stuart to act on his own judgement and do what he thinks best,

I have implicit confidence in ...

Battle of Jenkins' Ferry

Erected in memory of the soldiers of the Confederacy, who gave their lives for the cause at the Battle of Jenkins Ferry, April 30, 1864, Dedicated September 19, 1928, by the James F. Fagan and Jenkins Ferry Chapters of the ...

Jeruel Academy/Union Baptist Institute

This academy was founded in 1881 at Landrum Chapel (Ebenezer Baptist Church, West) by the Rev. Collins Henry Lyons. In 1886 a new facility was constructed at this site, now on the University of Georgia campus. Here black youth were ...

Father Philip J. Wagner

Dec. 23, 1882 — Nov. 1, 1959

Pastor of St. Philomena’s Parish

July 1917 — Nov. 1959

Founder of Grotto Shrine

Marker can be reached from Grotto Avenue north of Second Street North, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Edmund J. Rybicki

In memory of

Edmund J. Rybicki

Co-builder of the Grotto Shrine

1916 - 1991

For 62 years of dedicated service

"Without his cheerful assistance

and courageous endurance I could

never have accomplished what I did."

Rev. P. J. Wagner

Marker can be reached from Grotto Avenue north ...

Home of Doctor John Lining

Who made the first systematic weather observations with instruments in America January 1738-February 1753

In this building, which probably ante-dates the year 1715...Dr. Lining lived...made observations of the weather...and may have conducted his apothecary shop...It is certain that is has ...

Commodore John Barry

1745 - 1803

Father of the American Navy

Marker can be reached from 4th Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Don Juan Bautista Bernabeu

Commander / of the Royal American Order / of Isabella, the Catholic / Assistant Quarter-Master of the Navy / and Consul General of Spain / in the U.S.A. / He was born in Alicante in MDCCLXXI / and died in ...

NECKO Neighborhood / E. J. McMillen Homestead Addition

Welcome to the

NECKO Neighborhood

The NECKO neighborhood, a section of the historic E. J. McMillen Homestead Addition, is a part of the Near North Side Historic District as designated in the Historic Register in 1980. It is recognized as a locally ...