Nike "Ajax" Missile

Developed during the first decade of the Cold War to combat possible Soviet aircraft the Nike System was the world's first successful, widely-deployed, guided surface-to-air missile system. It was named "Nike" for the mythical Greek Goddess of Victory. Nike Ajax ...

San José Diridon Station

Rededicated December 8, 1994

by the

Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board • Supervisor Tom Haieh, Chair • Supervisor Mike Nevin, Vice Chair • Commissioner Phillip Adams • Councilmember Jin Beall •

Supervisor Rod Diridon • Director Art Lloyd • Supervisor Dianne McKenna ...

John Wilkes Booth

The assassin of Lincoln stopped here at the house of Mrs. Surratt to secure ammunition on the night of April 14, 1865. He rode on to "T.B." and then to Dr. Mudd's who set his broken leg.

Marker is on Brandywine ...

John Charles Fremont

Captain United States Navy (Ret’d)

Born February 26, 1880

Died October 13, 1957

A brilliant Officer

and a successful commander

Served in Spanish-American War on U.S.S. St. Louis

Later saw service in China Squadron

In World War I served with distinction in

command of destroyer squadrons from

Queenstown, Ireland

Awarded ...

Battle of Johnsonville

On November 4, 1864, Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest's Confederate cavalry attacked and destroyed the river port of Johnsonville located ten miles west of here on the Tennessee River. Union losses included four gunboats, fourteen steamboats, seventeen barges, and roughly ...

John Charles Fremont

Rear Admiral U.S. Navy

Born April 19, 1851 – Died March 7, 1911

A brilliant Officer

and a successful commander

holding more independent commands

during his life time

than any of his contemporaries.

The United States ships

Pinta, Drift, Culgoa,

torpedo boats Cushing abd Porter,

Monitor Florida, Battleship Mississippi

Naval ...

Jackson's Flank March

Shortly after 8 a.m., May 2, "Stonewall" Jackson's corps marched down the hill behind you and passed Catharine Furnace, bound for the Union Army's right flank. When the Federals spotted Jackson's column, they assumed the Confederates were retreating and sent ...

Jubal Early Memorial

Memorial to Jubal Anderson Early, Lieutenant General C.S.A., and to the brave Confederate soldiers under him who came to the rescue of Lynchburg when it was threatened by an invasion of Federal forces and erected these earthworks behind which they ...

Joseph Standing Monument

This memorial park and monument honor the memory of Elder Joseph Standing of Salt Lake City, Utah, a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Mormon) who was killed here by a mob July 21, 1879. His ...

Jackson on the Move

About 10 a.m. on May 2, 1863, Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's flanking column approached this then-cleared ridge on the Furnace Road. Union infantrymen perched in trees at Hazel Grove, three-quarters of a mile to the northwest, spotted the ...