1936 Greater Johnstown Flood Victims

In memory of

those lost in the March 17, 1936

Greater Johnstown Flood

Daniel Gallagher • Cecilia Seifert Wehn

Foster W. Buchanan • Henry Belande

Mrs. Jacob Fruhlinger • Faber Eckenrod

James Langham • Louis F. Ansman

Joseph Runko • Andrew Gibson

Gregory Kostoff • One Unidentified Man

1936 ...

Jacob Engelbrecht

A Frederick Diarist on the National Road

In 1826, Jacob Engelbrecht moved to the house across the street near Carroll Creek. He began reporting on the National Road cavalcade that was going by his front door. His priceless diary recorded everything ...

Point Judith Light House

Wooden Light House Est. 1810

Destroyed by storm September 17, 1815 / present tower built 1857

51 feet above ground - 65 feet above water

Occulting white light - 15 second group / 17,300 candle power

A tribute to the fishermen of Galilee from

Leon ...

James Cardinal Gibbons

At this site, on July 23, 1834, was born America’s first Prince of the Church,

James Cardinal Gibbons.

Although world-renowned for the influence and profoundness of his thought he was always the parish priest striving for the salvation of souls.

Joseph Oliver

In memory of Joseph Oliver who departed this life February 28, twenty minutes after seven in the morning in the Year of our Lord 1807 aged about eighty years.

Joseph Oliver was owner of land North of the Mispillion River, formally ...

Joplin

(side one)

Joplin, at the edge of the Ozark Highland, the city that lead and zinc built, was first sparsely settled as a farming community, 1838, John C. Cox, followed by the Rev. H.G. Joplin, and others. The first ...

Johann and Elsbeth Reiner Tree

This evergreen commemorates the first Christmas tree in Madison and perhaps one of the first in the country. It was erected at 616 Williamson Street in the log cabin of Johann Jacob Reiner, the 2nd German to arrive in Madison, ...

Jones Grocery Store

1875

Joseph Spurgeon Jones (1845-1928) built the original store that at the time was in the Little Yadkin Township, a part of Yadkin County. In 1914, his son, Will A. Jones (1871-1940), moved the store across the road east of its ...

Colonel John Singleton Mosby

This road, along which many of his skirmishes took place, is named for Colonel John Singleton Mosby, commander of the 43rd Battalion of Confederate Partisan Rangers. Their activities in this area helped keep the Confederate cause alive in Northern Virginia ...

Colonel John Singleton Mosby

This road, along which many of his skirmishes took place, is named for Colonel John Singleton Mosby, commander of the 43rd Battalion of Confederate Partisan Rangers. Their activities in this area helped keep the Confederate cause alive in Northern Virginia ...