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John W. Carey

Founder of Anna, Ohio

John W. Carey was born in 1805 in West Virginia [sic - Virginia] and came to Shelby County with his parents, Cephas and Jane Williamson Carey. Around 1833, J.W. Carey bought a thousand acres in Dinsmore Township, ...

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Dr John Sebastian Helmcken

(1824-1920)

Dr Helmcken earned acclaim for his work as a physician, colonial legislator and negotiator of British Columbia’s entry into Canada.

This statue, created by Armando Barbon and Gabriele Vicari, was donated to the Royal BC Museum by the family of Yole ...

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Japanese 75mm Field Gun

Model 95 (1935)

Designated for use with the Japanese Cavalry, the Model 95 Field Gun is a horse-drawn gun with split trails, hydropneumatic recoil mechanism and horizontal sliding wedge type breech mechanism. The 75mm gun weighs 2440 pounds and fires a ...

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Maj. Gen. Ralph H. Van Deman

In honored memory of Maj. Gen. Ralph H. Van Deman, father of modern U.S. Military Intelligence. Born September 3, 1865. Died January 22, 1952.

On the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Corps of Intelligence Police - the U.S. Army's ...

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Captain Jefferson Hunt, Soldier, Pioneer, Churchman

Born January 20, 1804 in Kentucky - Died May 11, 1879 in Idaho

Charles Jefferson Hunt served in the Mormon Battalion as Captain of Company “A” and as assistant executive officer. In it’s historic march from Council Bluffs, Iowa to San ...

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John Moses Browning Home

Utah Historic Site

Home constructed of sandstone blocks and red bricks. Completed in 1900. Built for John Moses Browning --- world famous gun maker. Architect Sam Whittaker. Purchased by Y.W.C.A. of Ogden in 1949

Marker is on 27th Street near Adams Avenue. ...

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Morris-Jumel Mansion

Roger Morris Park, 1,524 acres

Manhattan’s oldest surviving house, Morris-Jumel Mansion, is a monument to colonial grandeur. Built in 1765 as a summer retreat for British colonel Roger Morris and his American wife Mary Philipse, this house is the only ...

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The James W. Rossetter House

James Wadsworth Rossetter, Sr., came to Eau Gallie in 1902. He purchased this property in 1903. The house was built before the War Between the States and is on the former site of the Houston family's slave quarters. One member ...

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Gen'l Joseph E. Johnston

Gen'l Joseph E. Johnston,

Confederate States Army,

desperately wounded at the

Battle of Seven Pines,

was brought to the

Crenshaw residence

standing on this block,

and nursed to recovery.

This marker is placed by the

Confederate Memorial Literary Society.A.D.1915

Marker can be reached from the intersection of East Broad Street ...

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James A. Beaver

Civil War hero; Governor of Pennsylvania, 1887-91; a Superior Court judge, 1895-1905, was born in Millerstown Oct. 21, 1837. Site is marked by a plaque. His adult life was spent at Bellefonte, where he died on January 31, 1914.

Marker is ...

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