Jonathan Child

First Mayor of Rochester, 1834-1835, Built the House in 1838 and lived here with his wife, Sophia Eliza Rochester Child, until 1850

Marker is on S. Washington, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Buchanan and The James River and Kanawha Canal

Celebrating more than two centuries of history

Buchanan, Virginia is the western terminus of the James River & Kanawha Canal. Considered one of Virginia’s most remarkable engineering feats ever attempted, the Canal’s beginnings stretch back to 1785, when George Washington ...

Johnson County War Memorial Honor Rolls

[ Marker Front ]

[ Center Section ]

—?— (The Great Seal) —?—

Dedicated to these Johnson

County men who, in answering

the call of duty, paid the

Price of Freedom

– (Seal) – United States Army

– (Seal) – United States Navy ...

José Manuel Ramírez Rosales

The Chilean Community of Northern California and the Consulate General of Chile in San Francisco present this plaque in honor of

José Manuel Ramírez Rosales

A Chilean 49er, pioneer, artist, visionary and co-founder of the City of Marysville, who, in ...

John Hemphill

1803 - 1862

On the eve of secession, U.S. Senator Hemphill set forth to Senate January 1861 Texas' right to secede and again became a sovereign nation. Elected delegate provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama which drafted the new nation's constitution, ...

Stratford Junior High School

On February 2, 1959, Stratford Jr. High became the first racially integrated school in Virginia. The long battle to integrate Virginia's public schools followed the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which held that racially ...

Jacob Cochran, 1782-1836

Saco Main Street Museum Walk

Cochranism was the name given to the religious sect led by Jacob Cochran in the years 1816 to 1819, before this charismatic preacher was convicted and imprisoned for four years on charges of “gross lewd and ...

Johnson County Court Houses

1ST ~ Court held Smiley’s Mill, 5 miles S.E. of Franklin Oct. 16, 1823

2ND ~ George King home, Franklin, Indiana,

March, 1824

3RD ~ North Main Street, Lot 35, Log, 2 stories, Oct., 1824

4TH ~ Brick, 2 stories, May ...

Headquarters of General Joseph E. Johnston

Where on July 18, 1864, the transfer of the command of the Army of Tennessee was made to General John B. Hood.

(On Separate Plaques:)

Atlanta Chapter

Restored by Atlanta Paper Co. 1955

Restored by Mead Containerboard 1996

Marker is on West Marietta Street 0.1 ...

Home of Joseph W. Fifer

This was the home of Joseph W. Fifer, Republican Governor of Illinois, 1889-1893. Fifer was born in Virginia in 1840 and came to Illinois in 1857. During the Civil War he served in the 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment. He graduated ...