James Mears House

1871

This square house designed in a modified Federal style with Italianate detailing was built for Major James Mears, realtor and merchant from New York state. The cream brick residence was originally built at a cost of $5,000. Its significant architectural ...

St. John's Church

Construction was begun in August of 1872 with the cornerstone being laid on September 4, 1872. Opening services were held on October 11, 1875. Cruciform in shape and Gothic in style, the structure is made of native blue hammered limestone ...

Joseph Morton

Seven miles west stood Roanoke Bridge, the colonial homestead of Joseph Morton, who patented land near by in the 1740s. He was an elder of Briery Presbyterian Church on its founding in Prince Edward County in 1755, and later a ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

Memorial Reverse:

“Now it doesn't matter.

(go ahead! go ahead! Sounding from the audience.)

It really doesn't matter what happens now.

I don't know what will happen now.

We've got some difficult days ahead, (yeah! oh yes!)

But it really ...

Joppa Town

? 2 Miles ? County seat of Baltimore County from 1712 to 1768. Once a rival of Baltimore, an important point for shipping tobacco and a Port of Entry. Benjamin Rumsey, first Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals lived ...

Benjamin Ryan Tillman

[North]:

Born August 11, 1847 - Died July 3, 1918

Married Sallie Starke January 8, 1868

Patriot • Statesman

Governor of South Carolina 1890-1894

United States Senate 1895-1918

In the World War, Chairman Senate

Committee on Naval Affairs

A Life of Service and Achievement

[West]:

In the Home Loving; Loyal ...

Captain John Smith

Captain

John Smith

Governor of

Virginia

1608

Back of Monument:

Erected by

The Association of

the Preservation of

Virginia Antiquities

1907

Lower Plaque:

The gift of

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Bryan

Marker can be reached from Colonial Parkway, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Tommy Johnsom

Mississippi Blues Trail Marker

Tommy Johnson (1896-November 1,1956) was one of the most influential blues artists in Mississippi in the 1920s and 1930s. He grew up in the Crystal Springs area, where he often performed with his brothers LeDell and Mager. ...

John Edwards Jr.

1831 – 1891

A native of England, John Edwards Jr. settled in this area in 1859 to assume operation of his father’s sawmill, the nucleus around which the village of Port Edwards developed. Founded in 1840, the Edwards Sawmill was incorporated ...

Truckee Trail – To Johnson Ranch

”with practically no food for man or beast, and by bringing all the energy and courage which both men and beast possessed,…we succeeded in…reaching the first, or Johnston’s settlement.”

-Benjamin Hoffman, Sep 1, 1849

Marker is on Camp Far West Road, on ...