Governor John Sevier

1785 1788

To commemorate the Capital

of the State of Franklin

and to honor

Governor John Sevier

and the patriotic pioneers who followed him in the War of the Revolution and assisted in establishing in the wilderness ...

John Nicoll

Clockmaker - c. 1825

This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.

Belvidere Historic District

Marker is on Wall Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Andrew Johnson National Cemetery

Andrew Johnson chose to be buried atop this hill, then known as “Signal Hill,” which he owned. His family members continued to be buried here in the family plot until his great-granddaughter’s interment in 1992. The cemetery became part of ...

Juana Briones Y Tapia de Miranda

1802 – 1889

Juana Briones, born in Hispanic California, was a preeminent woman of her time. In the 1830s and 1840s she transformed an isolated cove in the then Mexican hamlet of Yerba Buena into her rancho. At the site ...

John Hay Whitney

1904 - 1982

British Prime Minister Harold McMillan proclaimed John Hay (Jock) Whitney "the best Ambassador the United States ever had here." Whitney was named to the post in 1954 by President Eisenhower, a golfing and hunting crony. Whitney was named ...

John E. Madden

1856 - 1929

John E. Madden named Hamburg Place, outside Lexington, for Hamburg, one of his many champion race horses. He proceeded to breed five Kentucky derby winners on the farm: Old Rosebud, Sir Barton, Paul Jones, Zev and Flying Ebony. ...

James Ben Ali Haggin

1821 - 1914

A Kentucky-born grandson of a Turkish Army officer, James Ben Ali Haggin was lured west by the Gold Rush. He and his partners eventually owned South Dakora's Homestake Mine---the richest gold vein in North America. Haggin's group also ...

James M. Woolworth

1829 - 1906

Born in 1829 in Onondaga County, New York, Mr. Woolworth graduated with high honors from Hamilton College in 1849, and took up the study of law. After two years practicing in Syracuse, New York, he determined to go ...

Joseph Francis Bauman

1822 - 1876

Born in Germany, Joseph Francis Bauman came to Omaha in the early 1860s. Like many others, he may have been escaping the wars that plagued Central Europe at that time. In 1863, with his partner John Green, he ...

John S. Knight

1894 - 1981

Adjacent to this park is the building of the Lexington Herald-Leader, one of the large Knight-Ridder chain of newspapers. Both Messrs. Knight and Ridder were longtime owners and breeders of racehorses. John S. Knight started with the Akron ...