Historic Jones Point

In the distance is Jones Point, designated as the southern corner of the District of Columbia by President George Washington. In 1790 Congress established the nation’s capital with a ten-mile square of land ceded by Virginia and Maryland. Alexandria City ...

The Reverend John Roads (Rhodes)

Died 1764. A Pioneer and Christian father, who with his wife and six of his thirteen children, was a victim of the last Indian massacre in Page County.

Marker is on U.S. 211 west of U.S. Route 340 South turnoff, on ...

James M. Buchanan

1919 -

James M. Buchanan, economist and author, received the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Grandson of a former governor, he attended Middle Tennessee State Teachers College, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Chicago. Buchanan's emphasis on ...

Sidney A. Murray, Jr., Hydroelectric Station

1990

In 1990, construction of the largest prefabricated power plant in the world, the Sidney A. Murray, Jr., Hydroelectric Station, was completed 40 miles south of Vidalia. It was the vision of Mayor Sidney A. Murray, Jr. to harness the power ...

Lynching of John Evans

At this intersection

November 12, 1914

John Evans

a black laborer

from Dunnellon FL

was lynched

condemned by a secret

council of fifteen of

St. Petersburg's most

influential citizens.

He was then turned over

to a mob of fifteen hundred

white residents and

- Murdered -

Marker can be reached from the intersection ...

Roosevelt “Rosey” Brown, Jr.

Roosevelt Brown, Jr. (1932-2004) was born In

Charlottesville and played football at Jefferson High

School, the City’s only African-American High

School. Following a stellar career he attended

Morgan State University where he was named to

the Black All-American Team In 1952. Upon graduation Rosey was ...

Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II

[Panel 1 of the historical narrative at memorial entrance]:

On February 19, 1942, 73 days after the United States entered World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which resulted in the removal of 120,000 Japanese American men, ...

Jedediah Smith

1798-1831

In 1826 he led a party of 17 men through the territory of the Mojave Indians, then west across our Great desert. During the trek, the heat became so intense that it forced him and his men to bury themselves ...

Jefferson Davis

On May 4, 1865, Jefferson Davis arrived in Washington, Georgia (178 miles NE), where he performed his last duties as President of the Confederate States of America. Soon thereafter, with a small staff and escort, he departed enroute to the ...

Jefferson Davis

(front):

Jefferson Davis

President

of the

Confederate States

of America

1861-1865

(reverse):

On this spot

May 10, 1865

President Jefferson Davis

was made a

prisoner of war

by Federal troops

Erected by the

State of Georgia

Eugene Talmadge, governor

in the year 1935

Sponsored by Mary V. Henderson

Chapter and the Georgia Division

of the United Daughters of the

Confederacy

...