“Stonewall” Jackson’s Arm

Here, in the Jones family cemetery, lie the remains of “Stonewall” Jackson’s left arm. The Confederate general lost the limb during the Battle of Chancellorsville, where he was mistakenly shot by his own troops. Surgeons removed the mangled appendage at ...

Camden / Jackson Township

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Camden

When the School Section, No. 16, was sold in 1832 Wm. Crooks, School Commissioner, reserved 16 acres and had a town site laid out by John Armstrong, Co. Surveyor. Col. Crooks (1787 - 1861) (War of 1812) kept the ...

Jeffers Mound

Archaeologists believe that this prehistoric mound, part of a complex of earthworks, was used for rituals by the Hopewell people and was probably built between 100 BC and 400 AD. Note the painted post tops marking the Hopewell pole house ...

Site of the Home of Josiah Hughes Bell

1791 - 1838

One of the “Old Three Hundred” who came to Texas with Stephen F. Austin in 1821 • First alcade of Austin's Colony • On this tract of 6,642 acres, granted him in 1824, was later built the ...

Fort Johnson

In the hours following the September 29, 1864, Federal triumph at Fort Harrison, 1,000 yards south of here, Confederate defenses stiffened. Two hundred Georgia infantrymen and Virginia artillerists filled Fort Johnson. Later in the morning they repulsed a direct attack ...

John Frederick Morey, M.D.

May 16, 1817 - April 13, 1867

Dr. Morey was born in Erie Co. Penna. but moved to Illinois when a young man. He was nearly 50 yrs. old at his death and had been engaged in the practice of medicine ...

Staff Sgt Joseph J. Terbay

41st Fighter Squadron, 35th Fighter Group, 5th Air Force

Honored God, Served His Country

and Fellowmen

South Pacific 1942-1945

Biak • Finshafen • Gusap

Morotai • Nadjab • Port Moresby

Noemfoor • Owi • Wewak

Lingayen Gulf, Luzon • Okinawa

Distinguished Unit Citation

Wewak 15 Aug 1943

Only by the ...

Gen. John Henry Winder, C.S.A.

1800-1865

Born near Nanticoke, John Henry Winder was successively a graduate and instructor at West Point. A veteran of the Seminole and Mexican wars, Gen. Winder joined the Confederacy in 1861, and eventually directed all Confederate military prisons east of the ...

John A. Johnson made Madison's Factory District Flourish

The Madison Heritage Series

John A. Johnson made a bold move when he co-founded an agricultural implement company in Madison in 1880. Many civic leaders opposed manufacturing, fearing the workers would lower the city's moral and intellectual tone.

But Johnson proved ...

Jonathan Trumbull

Jonathan Trumbull

Where You Are Standing

From 1768 to 1784

Jonathan Trumbull guides the people of Connecticut

to independence as the colony's Royal Governor.

Governor Trumbull is the only colonial governor

to stand with the patriots during

the American Revolution.

He organizes the energy and ingenuity of her ...