The Colored Methodist Protestant St. John’s Chapel of Baltimore

1833

Originally constructed as a log cabin in 1833, St. John’s Chapel and land adjacent thereto served the local black community as a house of worship and burying ground. Services had been held in the present chapel since its construction in ...

Roane County / Jackson County

Roane County. Formed in 1856 from Gilmer, Jackson, and Kanawha. Named for Judge Spencer Roane of Virginia. Land grants to Albert Gallatin and friends in 1787 and 1795, and to the Tiersons and Samuel Hopkins, included most of the county.

Jackson ...

June 1975

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the United States Army on 14 June 1975 and the 150th anniversary of Fort Hamilton on 11 June 1975, this plaque is dedicated. We ask our successors to hold an appropriate observance in June ...

C. J. Prescott House

C. J. Prescott House

12 Hickey Street

Has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

1864

Marker is on Hickey Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Jost Hite and Winchester

German emigrant Jost Hite and about 16 other German and Scots-Irish families from Pennsylvania came to this region in 1732, creating one of the early permanent European settlements. They settled along the Opequon Creek watershed south-west of the present-day city ...

On July 4, 1776

American Artillerymen under the command of Maj. Gen. Henry Knox fired from this area on the British Invasion Fleet in New York Harbor. These were the first shots of the Battle of Long Island. Damage & casualties were inflicted upon ...

Jean Adrien Delpit House

Erected together with the adjacent building at 525 St. Louis Street by Etienne Debon who acquired both properties in 1807 from Jean Etienne Boré, Claude Gerlie and Joseph Guillot, buiders.

This half of the Debon Building was extensively remodeled or ...

Greater Johnstown Flood Victims

July 20, 1977

“A people who have walked in darkness have seen a great light: to them who live in the region of the shadow of death, a light has risen.” Isaiah 9:2

[Names, ages, and residence of the 78 people who ...

St. John Cathedral

On May 31, 1889, St. John Gualbert's parish experienced not only a great loss, but also a nearly miraculous rescue. The church itself burned down in the midst of the floodwaters, having caught fire when the burning Wolfe residence crashed ...

John Edwards Jr. Office Building

In 1872, John Edwards Jr. became the sole owner of the Edwards and Clinton sawmill in Port Edwards, plus several other business ventures that included a general store, post office, boarding house, farming interests and land speculations. In order to ...