Judge Daniel Webster Virgin

July 4, 1835 – August 19, 1928

Served as first elected judge of Douglas County from 1864 – 66. Later on he served as District Attorney and Superintendent of Schools.

While in the practice of law he was considered one of the ...

The Ajo Mining District

Americans first worked the copper deposits at Ajo in 1854, one year after the Gadsden Purchase. These early American miners found abandoned workings and crude mining tools as mute evidence of earlier mining in the district.

During the next half century ...

James Thompson, 1750-1825

Burial site of first Lincoln Co. surveyor, commissioned Jan., 1781. Surveyed this area, then part of Lincoln Co. Daniel Boone was made Deputy Surveyor under him, 1783. Thompson, nephew of Isaac Shelby, was State Rep., Garrard Co., 1803; State Senator, ...

John Wilkes Booth

Escape of an Assassin

Divided loyalties and ironies tore at Marylander’s hearts throughout the Civil War: enslaved African-Americans and free United States Colored Troops; spies and smugglers; civilians imprisoned without trial to protect freedom; neighbors and families at odds in Maryland ...

Birthplace of Jaroslav Heyrovský

In Czech:

V tomto dom? se 20. prosince 1890 narodil academik Jaroslav Heyrovský. Nositel nobelovy ceny za chemii.

Translated, the marker reads: In this house was born on December 20, 1890 the academic Jaroslav Heyrovský. Holder of the Nobel Prize ...

John Pray - Founder of Waterville,Ohio / The Miami and Erie Cana

[East Side of Marker] : "John Pray - Founder of Waterville, Ohio"

Born in Rhode Island, John Pray (1783-1872) moved to the Maumee River Valley from New York shortly after serving in the War of 1812 and completing a prospecting ...

Johnston's Headquarters

During the fighting at Dallas, New Hope Church, Pickett’s Mill & elsewhere along the opposing Confederate & Federal lines, General J. E. Johnston [CS] had h'dq'rs at the Wm. Wigley house (which stood near here) May 25 - June 1, ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Church of the Holy Trinity

[Rendering of the Seal of the President of the United States]

In Memoriam

Within the hallowed walls of the historic Church of the Holy Trinity in

Georgetown, D.C. worshiped the late President of the United States, John

Fitzgerald ...

Fort Johnson

The First Shot

Across the harbor directly in front of you lies Fort Johnson. From Fort Johnson came the shot that began the Civil War.

If a Union soldier at Fort Sumter looked toward Fort Johnson at 4:30 a.m., April ...

Lt. Col. Jared Mansfield

Mansfield, Ohio

City founded in 1808

Named for

Lt. Col. Jared Mansfield

(1759-1830)

Surveyor General

United States of America

Marker is at the intersection of Diamond Street and Park Street North, on the right when traveling north on Diamond Street.

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