Jourdanton City Cemetery

T.H. Zanderson and city namesake Jourdan Campbell bought the 40,000-acre Toby Ranch in 1907 and laid out the town of Jourdanton. The original plat included two blocks designated for use as a cemetery. The Artesian Belt Railroad built through the ...

John Rogers House

c. 1830

John Rogers 1799 – 1889 civic

leader served on first Village

Board in 1856 and was a founder

of the National Union Bank

Marker is at the intersection of Upper Main Street (County Route 28A) and Old Mill ...

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams

Sixth president of the United States

Lived in a house which stood on this site

Here his son

Charles Francis Adams

Was born in 1807

Minister to Great Britain

During the Civil War 1861-5

Marker is on Boylston Street, on the right ...

Emerson Majestic Theatre

The Emerson Majestic Theatre is the only Boston building designed by nationally prominent architect John Galen Howard. Completed in 1903 for merchant an music patron Eben Jordan, it has been used for movies, opera and musical theater. Its monumental Beaux ...

John Boyle O'Reilly

John Boyle O'Reilly

1844-1890

Poet Patriot Orator

Marker is at the intersection of Boylston St and Fenway, on the right when traveling east on Boylston St.

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Jackson's Mill

Site of boyhood home of Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. The first mill was built about 1808 by his grandfather, Col. Edward Jackson, who became a leader in border affairs. It is now the site of the W. Va. 4-H ...

Jackson, Ross, Tefft and Dempsey Memorial

Dedicated to the Memory of

General Jackson, a ‘49er, after whom Jackson Peak and Jackson Creek were named, and first owner of the Haddick Ranch. Also, Ephiram Ross and L.V. Tefft, later owners of the Tefft Ranch, now the Haddrick Ranch.

Also, ...

Site of Jose Antonio Navarro Ranch Headquarters

(2.3 Mi. SSE)

This land had once been allocated in the 1700s as a ranch for Mission San Jose in San Antonio (20 mi. N), but in the 1820s was left unsettled. In 1828 prominent San Antonio resident Jose Antonio Navarro ...

Jourdanton

In 1909, Jourdan Campbell (1867-1938) and Theodore H. Zanderson (1854-1927) established the Jourdanton community, named for Campbell, on the eastern edge of their Toby Ranch property. Jourdan Campbell was born in Atascosa County, and was a merchant and county commissioner. ...

Old Atascosa County Jail

County officials rented a small Jourdanton house for a jail in 1911 after the county seat was moved here from Pleasanton in 1910. A proposal to build a new jail with cells from the old Pleasanton structure was rejected and ...