Johannes Dietz

Near this spot in September 1781 Johannes Dietz and seven members of his family were massacred by Tories and Indians.

Marker is on Switzkill Road (County Route 1), on the right when traveling south.

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Castillo de San Joaquin

The first ship to enter San Francisco Bay, the San Carlos (Captain Ayala), dropped anchor off this point August 5, 1775. Lieutenant-Colonel Don Juan Bautista de Anza planted the cross on Cantil Blanco (White Cliff) March 28, 1776. The first ...

Former St. Johns County Jail

ACCORD Freedom Trail

This building, designed by architect F. A. Hollingsworth, opened in 1953 as the St. Johns County Jail, replacing an earlier jail building on San Marco Avenue that subsequently became a tourist attraction. A decade later, this building played ...

Property of John Ogden   1680

Home of Royal Governor

Jonathan Belcher 1751 – 1757

Wedding of Catherine Peartree Smith

to Elisha Boudinot held here 1778.

Attended by Lafayette and

Alexander Hamilton. Home of Governor Aaron Ogden, descendant

of original settler 1812.

Marker is on E Jersey Street, on the left when traveling ...

650 Julia Street

ACCORD Freedom Trail

This house was built in 2008 by Habitat for Humanity for one of the Ancient City's civil rights heroes, Audrey Nell Edwards. Along with JoeAnn Anderson Ulmer, Samuel White, and Willie Carl Singleton, she was one of the ...

James Monroe

1758 - 1831

Soldier * Patriot * Statesman

This marks the birthplace of James Monroe, April 28, 1758

Westmoreland County, Virginia

Attended college of William & Mary; Officer, Continental Army, American Revolution; Married Elizabeth Kortright, 1786; US Senator; Minister Plenipotentiary to France and then ...

Site of First St John's Church

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Site of First St John's Church (1760) erected by Sir William Johnson; first Church of England North of the Mohawk River

Marker is at the intersection of West State Street and W. Green Street on West State Street.

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The John T. Cunningham Memorial Bridge

The Cunningham Bridge, completed in 1925, once spanned the Cumberland River here. Erected on the site of the old Gaiser's Ferry. It was one of the first bridges to be built by the newly-formed Tennessee Highway Department and was the ...

St. John's Methodist Church

Organized in 1828, this

was the first church in

Anderson. A log meeting

house built in 1830 on

West Benson Street served

the church until 1858

when a frame building

was erected on this site.

A brick church replaced

it in 1888. The present

sanctuary was completed

in 1912, the Educational

Building ...

Captain John E. Cook

Near this spot Captain John E. Cook, of John Brown’s Army of Liberation, was captured and disarmed on October 25, 1859 by Daniel Logan and others. He was hanged at Charlestown, Virginia, December 16, 1859.

Marker is at the intersection of ...