James Garner

Utah's Little Hollywood

Reaching international fame as the star of the hit T.V. series "Maverick", James Garner is still entertaining us six decades later. His list of classic film titles are too numerous to list but they include "Cash McCall", "The ...

Death of John Morgan

Sept. 4, 1864

The center of the present block was one the garden of the Williams house where Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan of Morgan's Raiders fame and his staff were billeted. Just after dawn a detail from Brig. Gen. Alvan ...

Boyhood home of John Brown

Hudson, Ohio was the boyhood home of John Brown (1800-1859.) This marker is at the very south end of East Main Street on the Ravenna Street Green.  Abolitionist John Brown came to Hudson as a boy in 1805 and lived ...

Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District

Shelbyville, Illinois

Abraham Lincoln

traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District ···1847 - 1857

[Smaller Plaque)]:

Presented to the Kuilka Chapter D. A. R. by O. J. Penwell

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Washington Street, ...

General Albert Sidney Johnston

C. S.

General Albert Sidney Johnston

Commanding the Confederate Army

Died Here at 2:30 P.M. April 6, 1862Senator Isham G. Harris, who was Governor of Tennessee in 1862 and was serving as volunteer aid on the staff of Gen. Johnston at Shiloh, visited ...

Tabby Sugar Works of John Houston McIntosh

These are the ruins of a tabby sugar works built by John Houston McIntosh at New Canaan Plantation soon after 1825. In his sugar house McIntosh installed what was, according to Thomas Spalding, the first horizontal cane mill worked by ...

Bobby Jones and the Beginning of the Grand Slam

On the golf links of the Forrest Hills-Ricker Hotel, Bobby Jones won the Southeastern Open of 1930. He went on to victory that year in the British Amateur, British Open, U.S. Open, and U.S. Amateur –- golf’s Grand Slam and ...

Benjamin Berry

——1720(?)–1810——

Benjamin Berry, son of Henry Berry of King George County, settled in what is now Clarke County prior to the Revolution, and in 1798, he procured the formal establishment of the town of Berryville, the town having been platted ...

Jacob Hamblin

Born April 2, 1819 Died August 21, 1886

The great Mormon frontiersman and Indian missionary settled in Tooele Valley, Utah in 1850 and began peaceful negotiations with the Red Men. He was so successful that the officials of the Church of ...

Josephine City

To improve the lives of former slaves, Ellen McCormick, widow of Edward McCormick of Clermont, established this African American community of 31 one-acre lots early in the 1870s. The lots, laid out on either side of the 16-foot-wide street that ...