State House - New Jersey

The State House is the heart of New Jersey’s State government, the second oldest State House in continuous use in the United States. First built in 1792 and expanded in every generation, the State House is a witness to two ...

Arm of Stonewall Jackson

Arm of

Stonewall Jackson

May 3, 1863

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Marker can be reached from Constitution Highway (State Highway 20), on the right when traveling west.

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James W. Cannon

1852-1921

Textile pioneer; founder of Cannon Mills, 1887, and Kannapolis, 1906; leading manufacturer of towels. Grave 2 mi. S.

Marker is at the intersection of South Cannon Boulevard (U.S. 29) and Cloverleaf Plaza, on the right when traveling north on South Cannon ...

Major Hiram Solon Hanchett

16th Illinois Cavalry - U.S. Volunteers

On January 20th, 1865, Major Hanchett lead a daring, but unsuccessful escape from the military prison that was located on this spot.

He was then moved to the dungeon of the county jail, located on First ...

Castle Morgan & Jesse Hawes

The Union soldiers held captive in Cahaba's Civil War Prison, called the place Castle Morgan in honor of a daring Confederate raider. In 1888 Jesse Hawes published a book about his imprisonment in Castle Morgan. He drew this diagram from ...

Major General William Starke Rosecrans / Bishop Sylvester Horton

Major General William Starke RosecransSoldier, engineer, and statesman, W.S. Rosecrans was born in Delaware County in 1819 and grew up in Homer. He graduated from West Point in 1842. During the Civil War, Rosecrans commanded the federal Army of ...

Capt. John McCrady

Designer of Fort McAllister

Charlestonian, a student of Agassiz at Harvard, then professor of mathematics at the College of Charleston, he resigned his position at the outbreak of the war and became an officer in the Confederate engineers. Transferred to Savannah ...

Johns Street Bridge

Between 1927 and 1999 a 135-foot single-span concrete-encased riveted steel polygonal-chord Pratt pony truss bridge crossed the Little Conemaugh River at this location. First proposed in Henry Hornbostel's 1917 "Comprehensive Plan of Johnstown" the bridge was designed by J.E. Greiner ...

Jeter C. Pritchard

United States Senator, 1895-1903.

Republican leader, newspaperman, federal judge. His home is 3/10 mile east; grave is 1.3 mi. west.

Marker is at the intersection of E Chestnut St and Merrimon Ave. on E Chestnut St.

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John Pearson

John Pearson, Born Franklin, Vermont, October 9th, 1838. died Virginia City, Nevada, October 31st, 1892. Married Jennie Thomas December 10th, 1865. Jennie Thomas was born in Iowa on January 28, 1846. John Pearson was engaged in Mining. He was foreman ...