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The Chenoweth Massacre of July 17, 1789 was the last major Native American raid in present-day Jefferson County, Kentucky (Louisville Metro).Captain Richard Chenoweth, builder of Fort Nelson, was stationed with his family northeast of present-day Middletown when a large band of Native Americans (likely Shawnee) attacked from across the Ohio River. They killed three of Chenoweth's children, Levi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Georgia. Official Website The county was created on February 20, 1796 and named for Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States. Adjacent Counties Emanuel County Burke County Johnson County Glascock County Warren County Washington County McDuffie County
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Ohio. Official Website Jefferson County was organized on July 29, 1797, by proclamation of Governor Arthur St. Clair. In 1786, the United States built Fort Steuben to protect the government surveyors mapping the land west of the Ohio River. When the surveyors completed their task a few years later, the fort was ab...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was established on March 26, 1804, from part of Lycoming County and later organized in 1830. It is named for President Thomas Jefferson. It is home to Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous groundhog that predicts when spring will come every February 2 known as Groundhog Day. ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Arkansas. Official Website The area that would later become Jefferson County was occupied by the Quapaw when French explorers established the Arkansas Post in the 17th century; the foreigners claimed this area as Louisiana, part of New France. It was formed on November 2, 1829 and named for Thomas Jefferson, third ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Alabama. Official Website Overview Jefferson County was established on December 13, 1819 by the Alabama Legislature. It was named in honor of former President Thomas Jefferson. In a study of lynchings in the South from 1877 to 1950, Jefferson County is documented as having the highest number of lynchings of an...
This cemetery is located on 2701 John Hawkins Parkway, Hoover, Jefferson County, Alabama. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Illinois. Official Website Jefferson County was organized in 1819, out of parts of White, Edwards and Franklin Counties. It was named in honor of Thomas Jefferson, principal draftsman of the Northwest Ordinance and 3rd president of the United States. Adjacent Counties Hamilton County Franklin County Perr...
Also known as Hebron Evergreen Cemetery , the cemetery is located on County Highway D, Hebron, Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Find a Grave Dodge/Jefferson Genealogical Society
Wikipedia The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. Developed from an academic extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System. In the fall of 2013, 18,568 students from more than 110 countries were enr...
Wikipedia Samford University is a private, coeducational, Christian university located in Homewood, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham. In 1841, the university was founded as Howard College. Samford University is the 87th oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Samford University is Alabama's top-ranked private university. The university enrolls 5,471 students from 47 states an...
This cemetery is located on 3229 High Ridge Boulevard, High Ridge, Jefferson County, Missouri. It's also known as Saint Martin UCC Cemetery or Saint Martin United Church of Christ Cemetery . Find a Grave
The Greenlawn Memorial Park is located on 3900 Twin City Highway, Groves, Jefferson County, Texas. It serves many faiths including Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish. Included within the cemetery is the Jewish section, originally Zion Hill Cemetery , also called Rodef Shalom Cemetery , located in the southeastern section. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Alcorn State University (Alcorn State, ASU or Alcorn) is a public historically black land-grant university in Lorman, Mississippi. It was founded in 1871 and was the first Black land grant college established in the United States.One of Alcorn's most notable alumni, Medgar Evers, a civil rights activist, graduated in 1952. Students at the college were part of the mid-twentieth century Civil Rig...
This cemetery is situated on maps between the towns of Lakewood and Wheat Ridge, in Jefferson County, with the mortuary that owns it is found at 7777 W 29th Ave, Denver, CO 80033, 8128 (303) 233-4611. The mausoleum is called Tower of Memories. The Tower of Memories is a mausoleum located at Crown Hill Cemetery in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The seven story building is 158 feet (48.16 m) tall; its e...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Nebraska.= Official Website =Jefferson County was founded on 26 January 1856, and its governing structure was organized in 1864. It was named for Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States.Rock Creek Station was a stage and Pony Express station established in 1857, on the Oregon & California Trails, that ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Tennessee.= Official Website =Jefferson County was established on June 11, 1792, by William Blount, Governor of the Southwest Territory.[8] It had been a part of Caswell County during the State of Franklin period (1784–1789). During the Civil War, a railroad bridge at Strawberry Plains was among those targeted by the...
Wikipedia =Bellarmine University is an independent, private, Catholic university in Louisville, Kentucky. The liberal arts institution opened on October 3, 1950, as Bellarmine College, established by Archbishop John A. Floersh of the Archdiocese of Louisville and named after the Cardinal Saint Robert Bellarmine. The name was changed by the Board of Trustees in 2000 to Bellarmine University. The...
This cemetery is located on 4955 Pine Street, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas. Find a Grave
Cave Hill National Cemetery, located in Louisville, Kentucky, is comprised of six burial sections at the northwest corner of the privately owned Cave Hill Cemetery , (a separate project on Geni), a grand Victorian-era cemetery that provided a proper resting place for the dead within a beautiful park setting. The national cemetery features rows of marble headstones following the curvilinear path...
This cemetery is located on 5730 Highway 78 East, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Kansas.= Official Website =In 1855, Jefferson County was established, and was named for President Thomas Jefferson. Settlement of the county was slowed by events prior to and during the Civil War, but the present day unincorporated community of Thompsonville was the first established in 1851 by Mormon settlers who in...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky.= Official Website == History =Louisville is the historical and nominal county seat of Jefferson County. It was named after King Louis XVI of France, and was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians.The city's early growth was influenced ...
The First Battle of Sabine Pass (September 24–25, 1862), also known as the Bombardment of Fort Sabine, was the first American Civil War bombardment by the United States Navy of a Confederate fort below Sabine City (now Sabine Pass, Texas.) It was the apex in a series of naval and land skirmishes around the mouth of the Sabine River, Texas, and preceded by four weeks the Union Navy's first armed...
This was established in 1910 and is located in Carthage, Jefferson County, New York. Find a Grave