Julia McClung Green

1873-1961

Dedicated educator who served Davidson County public schools 57 years as a teacher, the first Supervisor of Elementary Education 1911-1944, and Director of Character Education, Miss Julia oversaw schools countywide. A progressive, she pioneered school hot lunch and health programs ...

Site of John George Ryerson House

Site of the

John George Ryerson House

Built about 1740

The Light Infantry Corps

commanded by Gen’l LaFayette

was encamped in this vicinity

Oct. – Nov. 1780

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Placed 1952 by

The Passaic County Park Commission

Marker can be reached from Goffle Road (County Route 659) north of Macfarlen Avenue, ...

Josheph Kershaw (1728-1791)

A native of England, Joseph Kershaw came to South Carolina about 1755 and had moved to Camden (then called Pine Tree Hill) by 1758, where he established a store.

As a member of the colonial legislator, Kershaw promoted Camden's development and ...

Chief Justice John Edward Hickman

(1883 - 1962)

A distinguished chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and a native of Williamson County.

Descendant of 1849 settlers from Alabama, he was a son of Nathaniel Franklin and Mary J. Porterfield Hickman. He attended the Liberty Hill Normal ...

Fort Johnston

Guardian of the Cape Fear River

Confederate Lifeline. On January 9, 1861, as secession fever swept the South, an armed body of civilians overwhelmed Fort Johnston’s lone occupant, Ordinance Sgt. James Reilly, and demanded the keys. Reilly quickly surrendered them ...

Childhood Home of Wisconsin Governor Julius P. Heil (1876-1949)

Julius P. Heil lived in this house as a boy, going to Mill Valley School and working at Winton's Store on Prospect hill. He gathered field stone for the core of this house. A poor German immigrant, Heil went on ...

Mrs. Jessie Stevens Taylor

Erected during North Carolina’s Tercentenary to Mrs. Jessie Stevens Taylor, 1879–1961. She loved her God, Country and fellow man. She served here as a Voluntary Weather Observer and Storm Warning Display Woman from 1900 to 1961.

Marker is at the intersection ...

Judge Asa Holt House

?This house, built in 1853 by Judge Asa Holt, was struck by a cannon ball from Gen. Stoneman´s guns in East Macon during the Battle of Dunlap´s Hill. July 30, 1864, when the Union army tried unsuccessfully to take Macon. ...

Jackson’s Crossing

Here at Locust Dale, Stonewall Jackson's army crossed the river moving north to the Battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862. The Battle was fought a few hours later.

Marker is on James Madison Highway (U.S. 15), on the right when ...

John Bannister Gibson

Born Nov. 8, 1780, in a house near here. Chief Justice of Pennsylvania 1827-51. This was also the birthplace of William Bigler, who was Governor of Pennsylvania, 1852-55; and U.S. Senator, 1856-61.

Marker is at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route ...