Saint Joseph Catholic Parish and School

Originally part of St. Michael's Parish, St. Joseph's School for Creoles and St. Joseph's School for the Colored opened in 1877.

In the late 1880s, Mrs. Mercedes Sunday Ruby, petitioned Bishop Jeremiah O'Sullivan of the Mobile Diocese to establish a ...

Captain Joseph P. Fish-St. Michael's Cemetery

Captain Joseph P. Fish was born in Noank, Connecticut on March 1, 1857 and, as a boy, he was exposed to the maritime industry of Noank. In the late 1800's, Fish moved to the Gulf Coast due to the profitable ...

T.H. Stone Memorial St. Joseph Peninsula State Park

With miles of white sugar sand, this park has one of the top rated beaches in the United States. Sunbathing, snorkeling, and swimming are popular activities along the Gulf of Mexico and St. Joseph Bay. From offshore, canoeists and kayakers ...

Joseph Pulitzer

(1847 – 1911 )

As publisher of the New York World newspaper, this Hungarian immigrant conducted the editorial crusade that popularized the American Pedestal Fund Campaign. His last will and testament established the Pulitzer prizes for achievement in journalism, literature, music ...

Joseph McMinn

500 yards southeast is buried Joseph McMinn, governor of Tennessee, 1815-1821. A Quaker, born in Pennsylvania, he came to Hawkins County in 1790. He also served in the State Constitutional Convention, 1796; State Senate, 1798–1812; Speaker of the Senate, 1805, ...

Joseph-Geneviere, Comte de Puisaye

Soldier, politician, diplomatist and colonizer, de Puisaye was born at Mortagne-en-Perche, France, about 1755 and enlisted in the French Army at 18. Elected to the States General in 1789, he supported reform but, alarmed by the course of the Revolution, ...

Gen'l Joseph E. Johnston

Gen'l Joseph E. Johnston,

Confederate States Army,

desperately wounded at the

Battle of Seven Pines,

was brought to the

Crenshaw residence

standing on this block,

and nursed to recovery.

This marker is placed by the

Confederate Memorial Literary Society.A.D.1915

Marker can be reached from the intersection of East Broad Street ...

St. Joseph

Spanish 12-pounder bronze smooth bore

gun named St. Joseph

Captured by the United States Navy from the

Mexicans in California in 1847

Courtesy hmdb.org

Home of Gen. Joseph Wheeler

1836~1906

"Fighting Joe Wheeler"

Confederate Cavalry Commander

of Army of Tennessee.

Major~General, Cavalry,U.S.A.

in Spanish American War

Soldier~Statesman~Author~Planter

One of Alabama's representatives

in the Statuary Hall in Washington.

Marker is at the intersection of Alternate U.S. 72 and County Road 377, on the right when traveling east on U.S. ...

Joseph Funk

March 9, 1777

Dec. 24, 1862

“Father of song in Northern Virginia”

Teacher, translator, author

Publisher, printer

In 1816 he published “Choral Music”; in 1832 the first edition of “Genuine Church Music.” Here in 1847 he and his sons began printing, first the fourth edition ...