Cantonment Jordan

In June 1859, Captain John Mullan set out with 100 men. The United States government wanted a military road built through some of the wildest, untamed country in the West. Mullan led the effort to build a road connecting Walla ...

Jordan House

James Cunningham Jordan, one of Iowa’s most influential early settlers built this house, probably in phases, between 1850 and 1870. Jordan was born in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, in 1813 to John and Agnes Cunningham Jordan. He began raising ...

Jordan’s Point

“A day I will never forget . . . ” Margaret Junkin Preston diary, June 12, 1864

On this spot, in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 11, 1864, Confederate Gen. John McCausland and about 1,500 gray-clad soldiers lined the ...

Jordan Theater

In 1945, John Booker Jordan built the Jordan Theater as a motion picture theater. In the mid-1950s the theater was converted into a teen club, and is now a church.

The block between the former Jordan Theater and the Tivoli ...

Samuel Jordan of Jordan's Journey

Prior to 1619, Native Americans occupied this prominent peninsula along the upper James River, now called Jordan's Point. Arriving in Jamestown by 1610, Samuel Jordan served in July 1619 in Jamestown as a burgess for Charles City in the New ...

Jordan's Point

Weyanoke Indians, part of the Powhatan Chiefdom, occupied Jordan's Point, around two miles north on the James River, when English colonists arrived in 1607. There, about 1620, Samuel Jordan settled; the place was called Jordan's Journey. By 1625, his widow ...

Joseph W. Jordan

Dedicated

to the

Memory Of

Lorton Little Leaguer

Joseph W. Jordan

* 1999 All Star *

Marker can be reached from Dutchman Drive.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Jordan Home

2834 Highland Avenue

Dr. Mortimer Harvie Jordan and his wife, Florence E. Mudd, constructed their home between 1906 and 1908. After service in the Confederate army, Jordan studied medicine in Cincinnati and New York (under Alabama's famous gynecologist, Dr. J. Marion ...

West Jordan Pioneer Church

In 1859, to replace a log church house, Bishop Archibald Gardner chose Elias Morris as architect of this red sandstone and granite church. On May 15, 1861, the cornerstone was laid. Proceeds from a military ball attended by L.D.S. authorities ...

West Jordan

In 1848, Samuel Egbert, Horace Ensign and Thomas Butterfield and families settled here. In 1849-1850 the settlers built the first canal from the Jordan River, in 1851 Samuel Mulliner tanned the first leather, in 1851 Matthew Gaunt built the first ...