John Harvard's Land

1630 - 1930

In 1638 this tract of about one hundred and twenty acres was granted by the town of Charlestown to its Teaching Elder John Harvard. He died the same year, aged thirty-one, leaving half his property to the College ...

Captain John Heald

1630 - 1930

Here was the home of Captain John Heald, first selectman of Acton, who on April 19, 1689, marched to Boston with a military company to assist in the overthrow of Sir Edmund Andros.

Marker is on Carlisle Road 0.6 ...

LaFayette - Jackson Township Civil War Memorial

and Veterans Memorial Garden

Erected 1903 by the

Citizens of Jackson Tp. and

Dedicated to the

Memory of her soldiers of

1861. - 1865.

[Grand Army of the Republic emblem]

Ah! never shall the land forget.

How flowed the life blood of her brave

Gushed warm with hope and ...

Jonas Rice

1630 - 1930

On the slope of the hill one-half mile west stood the house of Jonas Rice, the first permanent dwelling in Worcester, built in 1713. He served as schoolmaster and his son, Adonijah, was the first white child born ...

The Johnson Massacre

1630 - 1930

John Johnson and three children were killed by Indians in his house on this spot August 25, 1696. His wife was saved by her brother.

Marker is on Massachusetts Route 12 0.1 miles from Johnson Lane, on the right ...

Site of the Camp of Gen. Joaquin Ramirez y Sesma

Site of the Camp, March 20-26, 1836, of one division of General Santa Anna's Army under the command of General Joaquin Ramirez y Sesma. It crossed the Colorado at Atascosita Ford, eight miles below Columbus.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Homesite of John S. Roberts

(1796-1871)

A native of Virginia, came to Texas in 1826.

An active participant in the struggle for Texas Independence. One of the leaders in Battle of Nacogdoches. Delegate to Consultation, November 3, 1835. Commanded the Nacogdoches Company in storming of Bexar, December ...

Gravesite of Lt (jg) Thomas E Zellars -Namesake of USS Zellars D

Grantville native Thomas E Zellars (1898-1924) graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1920 and reported for duty aboard the USS Mississippi. As turret commander he rose to the rank of lieutenant. In 1924, an explosion and fire engulfed his ...

John Paul Jones Memorial

[North Face inscriptions - above and beneath Captain Jones' statue:]

John Paul Jones

1747-1792

First to compel foreign man-of-war to strike colors to the Stars and Stripes.

[South Face inscriptions - above and beneath a bas relief rendering of ...

John Barry Memorial

John Barry,

Commodore, United States Navy.

Born County Wexford, Ireland, 1745;

Died in Philadelphia, 1805.

Marker is on 14th Street, NW just north of I (Eye) Street, NW, on the right when traveling north.

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