Joseph Jefferson Jackson

Shoeless Joe Jackson

Philadelphia Athletics 1908-1909

Cleveland Naps 1910-1915

Chicago White Socks 1915-1920

Position: Left Field

Threw: Right

Batted: Left

1919 World Series Batting Average .375

Lifetime Batting Average .356

Third Highest in Baseball History

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1911 - Batted .408, Highest Batting Average Ever by a Rookie

1912 - Led American League ...

Albert Benjamin Chandler / Gov. Albert B. Chandler

(1898 - 1991)

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Albert Benjamin Chandler

This colorful orator and two-term governor began his law practice in Versailles. As governor, he was driving force behind establishment of the University of Kentucky Medical Center, later named in his honor. "Happy" Chandler ...

Rev. John Leighton Wilson, D.D.

His home stood on this site. With his wife, Jane Bayard Wilson, he served as a Presbyterian missionary on the western coast of Africa 1833-1852. He advocated ending the slave trade and by 1844 had freed all his own slaves. ...

Jonathan Hager House

Circa 1740

October 16, 1739, Jonathan Hager took up “Hager’s Fancy” 200 acres in the valley of Antietam Creek. A year later he married Elizabeth Kershner for whom Elizabeth-Town (Hagerstown) was named and established his home here. In 1944 it was ...

Thomas Benjamin Hart House

Thomas B. Hart, with his brother, Charles, operated the saw and grist mills in the settlement of Hart’s Mills, now known as Wauwatosa. From 1874 to 1885 this was his residence. It is the oldest house on the city’s earliest ...

The Joseph Manigault House

An outstanding example of the Adam Style of

architecture in plan, interior detail, and decoration.

The house was designed by Gabriel Manigault,

Charleston's most famous amateur architect, for

his brother Joseph Manigault, who acquired the

lot in 1802 and built ...

Gen. J. D. Cox's Div. To Old Cross Keys

Maj. Gen. J. M. Schofield`s 23d A.C. (US) having crossed the Chattahoochee July 8, 1864, remained near Isom`s Ferry until the 17th. On that day the corps moved toward Sandy Springs (on Mt. Vernon Rd.). Hascall`s div. turned S. (on ...

W. J. Loth

1844-1904

Pioneer 19th century Waynesboro industrialist.

On this site stood the home of William J. Loth, founder of the W. J. Loth Stove Company of Waynesboro, which produced coal and wood-burning stoves, and pioneered in the manufacture and sale of electric cooking ...

Brig. Gen. John Minor

Hazel Hill, the home of John Minor (13 May 1761 – 8 June 1816), a close friend of President James Monroe, once occupied this site. Minor served as a soldier in the American Revolution, as a colonel if the Spotsylvania ...

Lieutenant Joseph Bonnell

a Hero of the War for Texas Independence

On April 7, 1836, Lieutenant Joseph Bonnell, West Point Class of 1825, 3rd Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, Fort Jesup, Louisiana, was sent alone into Texas by U.S. General Gaines to quell an ...