Joshua Meeks

(1731-1818)

A militia captain during the American Revolution and civic leader in the early republic, Meeks was a petitioner to create Allegheny County in 1787. While making his living as a farmer, he took up arms to defend western Pa. during ...

Col. John Jones

of Brunswick County

Soldier of the Revolution

Feb. 14, 1735 – Jan. 11, 1793

Vestryman St. Andrew’s Parish

1775-79

Justice 1760-93

Sheriff 1773-75 Clerk 1789-93

House of Burgesses 1772-73

Virginia Senate 1776-89

Speaker of the Senate 1788-89

Virginia Convention of 1788

By successive steps

In the militia became

County Lieutenant,

1778-89

Erected 1935

By the Col. ...

Fort Johnstown

Important frontier civil

and military prison during

revolution. Inspected by

Washington in 1783

Marker is at the intersection of South Perry Street and Montgomery Street, on the right when traveling north on South Perry Street.

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Boyhood Home of Colonel John Mosby

Confederate Col. John Singleton Mosby was born in Powhatan County on 6 Dec. 1833. Nearby stood the early childhood home in which Mosby lived from soon after his birth until his family moved to Charlottesville by 1841. Before the Civil ...

San Juan Capistrano Mission

Founded in 1776 by Padre Junipero Serra. The seventeenth in the chain of twenty-one missions established in Alta California to Christianize and civilize the Indians. Stone church destroyed in 1812 earthquake. Expropriated during Mexican rule. Returned to Catholic church in ...

James Burk's Inn

Moved here about 1788. Lot formerly Sir WM Johnson's. Village called John's Town. Younglove home 1812-1926. D.A.R. Chapter House 1926

Marker is at the intersection of S. Williams Street and W. Montgomery Street on S. Williams Street.

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St. Joseph’s Cathedral

St. Joseph’s was the first church of the Pueblo de San José. The original adobe structure was built on the present site in 1803. It was replaced by a second adobe in 1845, which in turn was replaced by a ...

Justice's Court

San Antonio Ledger, June 23, 1853

We strolled into a Justice’s Court the other day, and were reminded of the time when God smote the children of men with a confusion of tongues. A German was complained of by a Mexican, ...

Gassy Jack

1830-1875

John Deighton was born in Hull, England. He was an adventurer, river boat pilot and captain, but best known for his "gassy" monologues as a saloonkeeper. His Deighton House Hotel, erected here on the first subdivided lot, burned in the ...

Benjamin Apartments

1218 Webster Street

Completed in 1924, this apartment building is a good example of multi-family housing constructed in the south end of downtown Houston after World War I. Successful businessman Benjamin Cohen (1875-1951) hired noted Houston architect Alfred Finn to ...