Joseph Edward Turner, M.D.

Joseph Edward Turner, M.D.

1822 – 1889

Founder And Medical Superintendent

Of The First Inebriate Asylum

In The World At Binghampton N.Y.

1858 – 1866

The First Physician

To Put Unto Practical Operation

The Treatment Of Inebriety

As A Disease

By The Methods He Instituted

Thousands Have Been Redeemed

Humanity Blessed

The ...

Major General Robert Sprague Beightler

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Robert Sprague Beightler was born in 1892 in Marysville. A graduate of Marysville High School, he began his career as a soldier in 1911, when he enlisted as a private in Marysville's guard unit, Company E, Fourth Ohio Infantry ...

John William Heisman

(1869-1936)

Renowned college football coach and name-sake for the sport’s highest amateur honor, the Heisman Memorial Trophy. His innovations included legalizing the forward pass, the center snap, the scoreboard, and game quarters. Heisman promoted player safety by advocating gear improvements and ...

Old Joe

On the day of July 3, 1901 a stagecoach, driven by Henry Crockett, was on its way to the town of Foresthill when a hooded man appeared with a shotgun and ordered Crockett to stop, to which he replied, “You ...

James W. Marshall

1810 - 1885

Erected by the State of California

in memory of

James W. Marshall

1810 - 1885

Whose discovery of gold

January 24, 1848

in the tailrace of Sutter’s Mill at Coloma

started the great rush of Argonauts.

Marker can be reached from Marshall Park Way (State Highway ...

Jean Lafitte

Notorious pirate. Settled here in 1817 with his buccaneers and ships; under Mexican flag, continued his forays against Spanish shipping in the Gulf. On this site, he built his home, Maison Rouge (Red House), which was part of his fort; ...

John Luke Porter

(19 Sept. 1813 – 14 Dec. 1893)

John Luke Porter, first president of the Portsmouth common council, was born just two blocks south of here. An accomplished naval constructor, commissioned first by the United States and later by the Confederacy, Porter ...

"Ole Jim"

Peikoff Alumni House

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“Ole Jim”

Fondly known by Gallaudet alumni as “Ole Jim,” this building was the first Gallaudet College gymnasium. Designed by Frederick Withers and built in 1881, it was the nation’s second gymnasium with an indoor ...

Death of 2d Lt. James “Big Yankee” Ames

Sergeant James F. Ames of the 5th New York Cavalry deserted the Union army in Feb. 1863 and joined Lt. Col. John S. Mosby’s Partisan Rangers (later 43d Cavalry Battalion). Nicknamed “Big Yankee” Ames rose to the rank of 2d ...

Joe Gans and the Goldfield Hotel

The Goldfield Hotel once stood at the corner of East Lexington and Colvin Streets. Joe Gans, a Baltimore native and the first African American boxing champion, owned the hotel and its nightclub, which was one of the earliest integrated clubs ...