Jefferson High School / Rev. Austin Jefferson, Sr.

Jefferson High School Jefferson High School opened in 1956 as a junior high and high school for African-American students of Beech Island, Belvedere, Graniteville, Jackson, Langley-Bath-Clearwater, and North Augusta, with Herman W.W. Fennell (1910-1996) as principal. After county schools desegregated ...

About the Navajo Code Talkers

About the Navajo Code Talkers

During World War II the Japanese possessed the ability to break almost any American military code. Over 400 Navajos, with 29 being the original Navajo Code Talkers, stepped forward and developed the most significant and successful ...

James Davidson

Product of a small American community, James 0. Davidson's life illustrates the romance of citizenship in a democracy. Born 1854 in Norway, where he received little formal education, he emigrated in 1872 and was a farmer and tailor before coming ...

Commodore John Barry

“Father of the American Navy”

Born in Wexford Ireland 1745

Died in Philadelphia 1803

Received first commission

from the Continental Congress

to command the Lexington 1775

Sailed from Boston on the Raleigh 1778

Acclaimed in Boston in 1780

for victories on the Alliance

Appointed in 1794 by President Washington

to ...

Julius Ellsberry

In dedication to Julius Ellsberry, the first Black Alabama man to die in World War II; born Birmingham, Ala, 1922.

Enlisted in the U.S. Navy, 1940; First Class Mate [sic] Attendant aboard battleship Oklahoma in the Battle of Pearl Harbor, ...

Jenifer’s Cavalry

Lieutenant Colonel Walter H. Jenifer commanded the 300-man cavalry force in Colonel Nathan “Shanks” Evan’s Confederate brigade. Jenifer had some 70 troopers with him at Ball’s Bluff, including portions of the Chesterfield Light Dragoons, the Loudoun Cavalry, and the Wise ...

Johnny Weissmuller

(1902-1984)

Champion swimmer and motion picture hero. Best known as star of a dozen “Tarzan” films produced for MGM and RKO, 1932-1948. He earlier won fame as a swimmer: developed the “American crawl,” set 67 world records, and won five gold ...

James U. Jackson Memorial Bridge / James U. Jackson ( 1856-1925)

James U. Jackson Memorial Bridge

The first North Augusta bridge was built in 1891 by James U. Jackson. The present bridge, built in 1939, was formally dedicated as "The James U. Jackson Memorial Bridge." The building of the 1891 bridge, the ...

John Marshall’s Birthplace Park

JOHN MARSHALL, Chief Justice of the United States, and principal founder of judicial review and of the American system of constitutional law was born in a log cabin just east of here on September 24, 1755. At that time, this ...

Windber Area Victims of July 20th 1977 Flood

Susan Zidzik

Helen M. Zidzik

George A. Zidzik

Andrew Koharchik

Margie Koharchik

Marker is at the intersection of Graham Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 160) and 14th Street, on the right when traveling west on Graham Avenue.

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