Colonel James Lewis

In memory of COLONEL JAMES LEWIS

Born April 6, 1756 Albemarle County Virginia

Died February 21, 1849 Franklin County Tennessee

Served with distinction in the Revolutionary War. Participated in the Battles of White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown and Yorktown. Was with ...

Johnny Appleseed

John Chapman, an actual person as well as a folk hero, lived nearby along French Creek between 1797 and 1804. Records indicate he had a nursery there and one near Warren, Pa., before moving on to Ohio. Born 1774 in ...

607 Jones Avenue

607 Jones Avenue

Has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

1927

Marker is on Jones Avenue (Main Street) east of North Sixth Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Joseph Hayne Rainey Park

This park was dedicated in 1993 to the memory of Georgetown native Joseph Hayne Rainey, the first African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Born to slave parents in 1832, Rainey escaped to Bermuda when the War ...

Diamondfield Jack

J.L. Davis... Diamondfield Jack... spent most of 6 years in the Cassia County jail while the courts and pardon board were trying to figure out what to do with him.

By far the best known of the gunmen who fought in ...

Jeremiah S. Black

One of Pennsylvania's most noted jurists and lawyers, was born here Jan. 10, 1810. State Supreme Court Justice, 1851-57; U.S. Attorney-General, 1857-60. Later life spent at York as a famous lawyer. Died Aug. 19, 1883.

Marker is on Glades Pike (Pennsylvania ...

The Jell-O Company

1900-1964

Orator F. Woodward, owner of the Genesee Pure Food Company bought the rights to Jell-O from P.B. Wait in 1899 for $450. Production of “America's most famous dessert” began in 1900 at the Genesee Pure Food Company factory located on ...

First Jell-O Factory

In 1897, Pearle Bixby Wait of Leroy, introduced a gelatin dessert that his wife, May, named Jell-O. The first four flavors were strawberry, raspberry, orange and lemon. In 1899, he began production of Jell-O in a factory building located near ...

Herman J. Loftsgordon House

1918

Herman Loftsgordon and his family lived in this house from 1918 until 1946. Loftsgordon was one of five brothers who came to Madison from Mt. Horeb in the early 1900's and settled within blocks of each other in the Elmside ...

Siqueiros-Jácome House

The Siqueiros-Jácome family built this adobe brick structure between the mid-1860's and the late 1870's. It is an example of a Sonoran row house. Built close to the street with an interior courtyard, the house has flat saguaro rib and ...