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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM286A_pauline-cauthorne-morton-1912-2004_Franklin-VA.html
Pauline C. Morton, civic leader, graduated from what is now Virginia State University in 1933. She began working for the Virginia Department of Education in 1947, during the segregation era. Before retiring in 1974, she supervised home economics e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25XU_franklin-memorial-park-a-war-memorial_Franklin-VA.html
Dedicated to those who gave their lives
in defense of our state and our nation
Originally a part of the James L. Camp homeplace,
the park was given to the town of Franklin in 1946
by the children of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Camp.
Rena Camp R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25XT_confederate-monument-a-war-memorial_Franklin-VA.html
"Love makes memory
eternal."
To our
Confederate
dead.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BME_camp-manufacturing-company_Franklin-VA.html
This industrial complex evolved from a sawmillthat operated here prior to the Civil War. In1887, three brothers, Paul D. Camp, James L.Camp, and Robert J. Camp, founded CampManufacturing Company, later Union Camp CorporationThe lumbering enterpris…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BMC_blackwater-line-franklin_Franklin-VA.html
A major Blackwater River crossing waslocated here at Franklin during the CivilWar. Confederate forces guarded the crossingfrom 1862 to the end of the war as partof the Blackwater defensive line. Severalskirmishes were fought around the pontoonbrid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BE2_camp-family-homestead_Franklin-VA.html
George Camp, Jr. (1793-1879) acquired this land in 1826. Several of his children incorporated the Camp Manufacturing Company in 1887 to operate sawmills. The company expanded into a wood product manufacturing company and later a paper mill. It bec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1576_the-hand-site_Franklin-VA.html
East of here near the Nottoway River stood a Late Woodland Indian settlement occupied intermittently circa A.D. 700 to 1650, and long claimed by the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway). Excavated in the 1960s, occupation phases included features such as a fort…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ6Q_recovery-and-progress_Franklin-VA.html
Franklin's location at the junction of a railroad and important water route offered opportunities that attracted new people, so the town rapidly recovered from the War. In 1866 the Albemarle steam Navigation Company was reorganized and the Seaboar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYK6_the-age-of-steam_Franklin-VA.html
The conjunction of the Portsmouth &Roanoke Railroad and the Blackwater Riverin 1835 made this site, then a swampywilderness, a natural link between the towns of the Chowan and Albemarle Soundand points to the northeast. The railroad,later known as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYGH_the-age-of-gasoline_Franklin-VA.html
Between 1907 and 1930 Franklin witnessed arevolution in transportation as gasoline-poweredvehicles replaced the horse and buggy and steam-powered transportation. Even as Franklin benefited from a boom in buggy making duringthe first decade of the …