Major General Richard Montgomery

Major General

Richard Montgomery

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Born In Ireland Dec. 2, 1736

Entered British Army 1756

Served In North America 1757-1765

Returned to New York, Married

Jane Livingston and Settled

At Rhinebeck 1773

In 1775 Made Brigadier General

In the ...

Juliet V. Strauss

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Popular columnist writing as “The Country Contributor,” Strauss (1863-1918) idealized simple rural life and traditional roles for women in a time of national shifts in class and gender relations. Began writing for hometown newspaper, Rockville Tribune, 1880, ...

Jimmie Rodgers and The Blues

Jimmie Rodgers (1897 – 1933) is widely known as the "father of country music," but blues was a prominent element

of his music. The influence of his famous "blue yodels" can be heard in the music of Mississippi blues artists

Jewell Cemetery

Jewell Cemetery is located on what was originally the farm of George Jewell. George, his wife, and their children first moved from Virginia to Kentucky, then Franklin, Missouri, and finally Columbia in 1822.

George, his son William, and sons-in-law Charles Hardin ...

The Jail in "Tom Sawyer"

Here stood the jail (in Mark Twain's book "Tom Sawyer") in which Muff Potter was a prisoner awaiting trial for murder.

Marker is on North Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

James Farm

Home of Rev. Robert James, Baptist minister who came here in 1840. Son Jesse was born here and with his brother Frank, were involved with the Bushwhackers in criminal escapades until Jesse was killed in 1882. Frank surrendered and lived ...

John C. Freemont Memorial

Seeking a suitable railroad route through the central Rockies, John C. Freemont and Company reached Parowan February 6, 1854.

These are Freemont's own words, "We were all so feeble we could barely drag ourselves down the trail, but the Mormons took ...

Jesse N. Smith Home

Dedicated to the memory of

Mary Aikens Smith

and her sons

Jesse Nathaniel and Silas Sanford

and to the memory of

All the pioneer settlers

who founded Parowan in 1851

Constructed 1856-58 by Jesse N. Smith

Restored 1967 by Jesse N. Smith Family Assn.

Marker is on West 100 ...

William and Julia Lyman House

Utah Historic Site

Constructed c. 1895, the William and Julia Lyman House is a type known as a central passage, where a central hallway divides the two equally sized main-floor rooms. The Lyman House is one of only a few of ...

Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe

In Ocmulgee Fields camped Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe and his men on their way to Coweta Town for the purpose of making the treaty with the Creek Confederacy in 1739

Marker is at the intersection of Woolfolk Street and Smith Street, ...