Jefferson Street Methodist Church

This was the first Methodist congregration in Natchez formed in the early 1800s, and the 1st building was constructed in 1807. The 1st Sunday School south of Philadelphia, Pa., was organized here in 1829.

Marker is at the intersection of Jefferson ...

The Old Jail

The old jail, actually the county's fourth, was completed in 1875 at a cost of $38,600. The Victorian Italianate design made it a distinctive structure. The front facade is composed of 2,000 pound limestone blocks. The jail housed inmates ...

General John and Annie K. Bidwell Gravesite

This marks the location of

General John and

Annie K. Bidwell’s

Gravesite

Founders and Benefactors of Chico

Marker can be reached from Mangrove Avenue near 881 Mangrove Avenue.

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Doctor John Sebastian Helmcken

John Sebastian Helmcken was born in London in 1924. He trained to be a doctor at Guys Hospital, London.

He arrived in Victoria as a surgeon and clerk for the Hudson Bay Company on March 24, 1850.

Dr. Helmcken entered politics in ...

John Dickinson

1732 - 1808

Nearby is grave of John Dickinson, Lawyer, Scholar, and Statesman. Member Colonial Assemblies of Delaware

and Pennsylvania and Legislative Council of Delaware State. Delegate From Pennsylvania to Stamp Act

Congress. Representative in Continental Congress from Pennsylvania and Delaware, and President ...

Home of John Dickinson

"The Penman of the Revolution." Member of Delaware colonial and state assemblies. Member of Continental Congress, Annapolis Convention, and Philadelphia Federal Constitutional Convention. Signer for Delaware of Articles of Confederation and Federal Constitution. Governor of Delaware and President of Second ...

St. Jones Neck

Site of Settlement in the 1660's

This part of what is now Kent County, Delaware was one of the state's earliest sites of English colonization. Beginning in the 1660's plantations were established along the St. Jones River. The Dickinson family of ...

John Pool

1630 - 1930

Here stood the first framed house in Sandy Bay (Rockport) built in 1700 by the second settler John Pool. He built the first sawmill, bridge and vessel in this settlement, and furnished the lumber used in building Long ...

John McKinly

President (Governor) of Delaware, 1777

Delaware's only known foreign-born governor, John McKinly emigrated from Northern Ireland to Wilmington in 1742, began a medical practice and became actively involved in Delaware politics. McKinly served as a member of the Colonial Assembly, President ...

John Rogers Homestead

1630 - 1930

Near this spot stood the John Rogers homestead, which was destroyed in the Indian massacre of 1695, and the entire family killed.

Marker is on Kingsley Road.

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