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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14WL_tennessee-valley-divide_Franklin-TN.html
The high ground you are on is part of a long ridge that divides central Tennessee. Streams south of the divide flow to the Duck and Tennessee Rivers, while streams to the north empty into the Cumberland River.
Travelers in the early days of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10KB_trinity-church_Franklin-TN.html
This United Methodist church was an outgrowth of Mt. Zion Methodist church, established about 1840 in Burke Hollow near the Tom Page house. Mt. Zion was destroyed in 1863 by Union soldiers who used its materials for a signal station on Daddy's Kno…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10JZ_rock-hill_Franklin-TN.html
With the completion in 1844 of the Harpeth Turnpike, now known as Wilson Pike, the hamlet of Rock Hill grew and became the commercial center for a large area. The original store and post office building was located 350 yds south at the driveway en…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY7Q_abram-maury_Franklin-TN.html
Abram Maury (1766-1825) came to this area from Virginia in 1797 to settle on 640 acres he purchased from Major Anthony Sharpe. In 1798, he reserved a square-shaped area of 109 acres for a town he intended to name Marthasville for his wife. Instead…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRJI_fort-granger_Franklin-TN.html
In September 1864, after Union Gen. William T. Sherman defeated Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood at Atlanta, Hood led the Army of Tennessee northwest against Sherman's supply lines. Rather than contest Sherman's "March to the Sea," Hood moved north…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQU3_fort-granger_Franklin-TN.html
In the spring of 1863, Federal forces commanded by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger occupied Franklin. Construction of major fortifications began under the direction of Capt. W. E. Merrill, U.S. Corps of Engineers, the largest of them being placed on Figu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQU2_opdyckes-bridgade_Franklin-TN.html
Col. Emerson Opdycke's Federal brigade was positioned in this area 150 yards north of the Carter House, east and west of Columbia Pike. Without orders, the Federal brigade attacked a portion of Cleburne's and Brown's Confederate divisions after th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQU1_carter-house_Franklin-TN.html
Built 1830 by Fountain Branch Carter, and in use by three generations of his family. Here was command post of Maj. Gen. Jacob D. Cox, Federal field commander of Schofield's delaying action. The hottest fighting took place just east and south nearb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQTU_attack-on-the-union-left-lot-no-1-in-the-plan-of-carnton_Franklin-TN.html
(obverse)Attack On The Union Left
Confederate Regiments from Brig. Gen. Thomas Scott's, Brig. Gen. John Adams', and Brig. Gen. Winfield Featherstons's Brigades of Maj. Gen. William Loring's Division advanced under artillery fire through this no…