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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y94_standing-at-the-crossroads-1861_Franklin-TN.html
Pre-war Middle Tennessee thrived. Residents free and enslaved grew copious amounts of corn, wheat, timber, cattle, and horses, and no area of the South produced more mules and hog. Toads, rails, and telegraph wires webbed across the center of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y93_becoming-the-front-line-1862_Franklin-TN.html
"Throughout 1862 first one army would be encamped in town, then the Federals. Raids were frequent, then we would run down in our cellar to get out of the range of the bullets. Sometimes we would spend a whole night there. The quiet would go on for…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y92_a-crucial-war-zone-1863_Franklin-TN.html
For the Union, 1863 brought the Emancipation Proclamation, victory at Gettysburg, and the capturing of the Mississippi River. Federal forces continued their drive toward Atlanta in hopes of ending the war altogether. But on March 5th, seven miles …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y91_maj-gen-william-w-lorings-division_Franklin-TN.html
During the Battle of Franklin this Confederate division composed of three brigade commanded by Brig. Gens. Winfield Scott Featherston, Thomas Moore Scott,and John Adams, swept past Carnton as it approached the Federal line just after 4 p.m. on Nov…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UY3_burwood-historical_Thompsons-Station-TN.html
Side AOriginally named Williamsburg, later Shaw, the village's name was changed to Burwood, a title taken from Mrs. Humphrey Ward's novel, "Robert Elsmere." Rev. John Pope, a Revolutionary War veteran, built his home, Eastview, here in 1806. Other…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KZO_mcgavock-confederate-cemetery_Franklin-TN.html
In the spring of 1866, Col. John McGavock, seeing the deteriorating condition of the Confederate graves on the Franklin battlefield, set aside 2 acres of Carnton Plantation as the nation's largest private Confederate cemetery. The dead were reinte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KZF_mcgavock-family-cemetery_Franklin-TN.html
Buried here, beginning ca. 1818, are the remains of numerous family members. Among them are Randal McGavock (1768-1843), planter and political leader who built Carnton; his son, Col. John McGavock (1815-1893), successful farmer and civic leader wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KHW_franklin-noon-rotary-rodeo_Franklin-TN.html
The Franklin Noon Rotary Club was chartered in 1948 by nineteen leading Williamson County businessmen, professionals, and farmers. The organization is best known for founding the Franklin Rodeo in 1950, an annual event which has grown into one of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GMO_tennessee-association_Franklin-TN.html
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The association was established at Franklin on Sept. 14, 1892, in conjunction with the annual reunion of the Tennessee Association of Confederate Soldiers which was held in McGavock's Grove 500 yards Southeast of this marker. The Tennessee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EPT_carters-cotton-gin_Franklin-TN.html
(Preface): In September 1864, after Union Gen. William T. Sherman defeated Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood at Atlanta, Hood let the Army of Tennessee northwest against Sherman's supply lines. Rather than contest Sherman's "March to the Sea," Hood …