Battle of Black Jack

This "battle" was part of the struggle to make Kansas a free state. In May, 1856, Proslavery men destroyed buildings and newspaper presses in Lawrence, Free-State headquarters. John Brown's company then killed five Proslavery men on Pottawatomie Creek not far ...

Hugh Porter & Jane Baily McClimon

First McClimon Family in South Carolina

Born to this union, six children, John Pressely gave the land for Liberty Hill Church. The first church was logs. Sallie McClimon married Jeremiah Glenn. They gave most of the money to build the ...

The Battle of Black Jack

(Left marker):The Battle of Black Jack

"Civil War in Kansas!"

"Let not the knives of pro-slavery men be sheathed while there is one abolitionist in the Territory."

Squatter, Sovereign, proslavery newspaper in Atchison, Kansas Territory, June 10, 1856

On this ...

Battle of Black Jack

This "battle" was part of the struggle to make Kansas a free state. In May, 1856, Proslavery men destroyed buildings and newspaper presses in Lawrence, Free-State headquarters. John Brown's company then killed five Proslavery men on Pottawatomie Creek not far ...

John Walter

Co-laborer of Jacob Albright in founding of Evangelical Church, born 1791, died 1818, is buried in this cemetery. An effective preacher and hymn writer, he published the first songbook for his church.

Marker is on Jonestown Road 0.1 miles west ...

Thomas Joseph

(Feb. 11, 1823 - Mar. 10, 1905)

Born in Hartford, Conn., Thomas Miller Joseph came to Galveston about 1841 with his mother Annis (Rogers) (d. 1879) and the family of his Uncle Alexander Edgar. Admitted to the bar, he became ...

Jubal Early’s Raid on Washington

The only contingent of Confederate soldiers to enter Washington during the Civil War marched down Georgia Avenue, formerly called Seventh Street Pike, the 11th and 12th of July 1864 and attacked Fort Stevens. President Lincoln arrived at Fort Stevens to ...

James Urquhart Jackson

James Urquhart Jackson, founder of North Augusta, was born in the village of Harrisonville, near Augusta, Georgia, on June 24, 1856. It was his vision that shaped North Augusta's early years.

In 1890 Jackson acquired 5600 acres of land ...

Christ Episcopal Church and Jubal Early's Raid on Rockville

Vestrymen Arrested

Early Sunday morning, June 28, 1863, 5,000 of Confederate Gen J.E.B. Stuart's cavarlymen rode into Rockville and arrested Union supporters. They sought merchant John H. Higgins at his home, but he had already left for Christ Episcopal Church ...

Jácome’s

[ Four markers are mounted to a four sided kiosk. ]

Side A:

Jácome’s Department

Stores, Inc.

1896 – 1980

This area was the final location of Jácome’s Department Store from 1951 to 1980. For twenty-nine years the people of ...