Luke Jordan, Blues Pioneer

Singer-guitarist Luke Jordan (1892-1952) was a familiar presence on the streets of Lynchburg from the 1920s until World War II. Jordan and other African American musicians in the Southeast merged blues with an existing repertoire of ballads, ragtime, and tent-show ...

South Jordan Settlement

In 1859, George A. Smith sold his Mexican Land Grant to Alexander Beckstead, who, with others, settled ½ mile to the south. They dug a five mile ditch from Jordan River, in operation since completed in 1863. Adobe Community House ...

Barnie Jordan Jr. Memorial Highway

Named In Honor

of

Native of Edgefield

County

Longtime Resident of

Richland County

Born 1909 Died 1980

Who during 35 years

as a general contractor

built more than 1,000

miles of roads, streets

and highways

in South Carolina

including this ...

West Jordan Settlement

Building On Our Heritage

When the Mormon Pioneers first came to the Salt Lake Valley, the river running west of the city was called the Western Jordan. All the area south of Big Cottonwood Creek was known as West Jordan.

Thomas Butterfield, ...

The Jordan Gravestone

Thanks to the dedication, appreciation, love and respect that Ms. Fleta Jordan had for her ancestors, she went to court to save the Jordan gravestone from being removed as a result of the April 20, 1967 Court Order designating the ...

Samuel Jordan Kirkwood

1813 – 1894

Kirkwood is the only Iowan to serve as governor, U.S. senator and as a cabinet member. He came to Iowa in 1855 to operate a grist mill in this vicinity. Elected governor in 1859 as a Republican, Kirkwood ...

Jordan Hall

GySgt Phillip A. Jordan

United States Marine Corps

Awarded the Silver Star (posthumously) in action against the enemy while serving as Weapons Platoon Sergeant, Company C, 1st Battalion, 2d Marines on 23 March 2003 during the battle of An Nasiriyah, Iraq.

GySgt Jordan ...

Jordan Springs

Healing Springs

During the Civil War, both United States and Confederate forces used Jordan Springs resort as a hospital at different times. Wounded and sick Confederate soldiers from the Antietam and Gettysburg battlefields came to the springs—although Martinsburg, W.Va., was closer—because ...

North Jordan Canal

Gardner Mill and Mill Pond, 1915.

The Garder Mill was built next to a natural pond which was a much used pioneer and later day picnic and recreation area until it was drained in the 1950’s. Note Midvale Smelter in the ...

Jordan & Salt Lake City Canal

The foundation work on the Salt Lake Temple was nearing completion and soon would be ready for the granite upper walls. The four day trip from the quarry with oxen-drawn wagons could not possibly provide stone as quickly as it ...