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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BF6_432-438-main-street_Franklin-TN.html
This property has beenplaced on theNational Registerof Historic Placesby the United StatesDepartment of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BF5_430-main-street_Franklin-TN.html
This property has beenplaced on theNational Registerof Historic Placesby the United StatesDepartment of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B3I_carnton-plantation_Franklin-TN.html
(preface)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 mo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B36_mcgavock-confederate-cemetery_Franklin-TN.html
After the Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864, the Union Army withdrew into Nashville. Casualties of over 8,000 Union and Confederate soldiers lay upon the field. In pursuit of the withdrawing Union forces, Confederate General John Bell Hood lef…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B2X_mcgavock-confederate-cemetery_Franklin-TN.html
In the spring of 1866, the bodies of Confederate soldiers killed at the Battle of Franklin were exhumed from their temporary graves and reburied here, on this two-acre plot adjacent to Carnton, home of John and Carrie McGavock. Over about ten week…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B2W_willow-plunge_Franklin-TN.html
Opened in 1924, this was the largest outdoor concrete swimming pool in the South. Willow Plunge was owned, and for many years operated, by the Claiborne Kinnard family. Water was piped 1,023 feet from a spring to the willow-shaded double pool whic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B2P_allen-manufacturing-company_Franklin-TN.html
This complex of ten depression-era buildings, with a total of 310,000 square feet, housed four different factories over its industrial lifetime. The buildings were built for the Allen Manufacturing Co. (stove manufacturers) in 1929. More than $100…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B2N_natchez-street-community_Franklin-TN.html
After the Civil War, Natchez Street became Franklin's primary African-American community. Black businesses included: Undertakers J.T. Patton, Maggie Betsy Prince, Henry Ewing; Plumber Morton Thomas; Plasterer Bud Cheatham; Bricklayers Son Scruggs,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B2D_lot-60-at-the-corner-of-cameron-church-street-bucket-of-blood-neighborhood_Franklin-TN.html
(side 1)Lot 60 at the Corner of Cameron & Church Street
In 1867 Rev. Otis O. Knight of Nashville purchased Lot 60, selling the southern half to ex-slave A.N.C. Williams, and the northern half for the construction of Wiley Memorial Methodist Epi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B2B_franklin-cotton-factory-and-foundry-lillie-mills_Franklin-TN.html
(side 1)Franklin Cotton Factory and Foundry
Dyer Pearl, Thomas Parkes and Joseph L. Campbell established a manufacturing operation for production of cotton and woolen goods on this 3.5 acres site in 1825. The first steam powered loom in the sta…