Historical Markers and War Memorials in Franklin County, North Carolina

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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Franklin County, North Carolina

1 ► North Carolina, Franklin County, Franklinton — E-62 — Moses A. Hopkins —

U.S. Minister to Liberia, 1885-1886. Negro clergyman. Founder and principal of Albion Academy which stood 2 blocks E. — — Map (db m222539) HM

2 ► North Carolina, Franklin County, Hollister — E-89 — Gold Mines —

Ore discovered at farm of John Portis in 1831. Mine operated for about a century. Area mines yielded sizable volume of gold before Civil War. — — Map (db m221562) HM

3 ► North Carolina, Franklin County, Louisburg — Camp Site for Sherman's Army — Louisburg at the End of the War —

On May 1, 1865, five days after Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to Union Gen. William T. Sherman near Durham Station, approximately 12,000 to 15,000 troops of Sherman’s Army of the Tennessee camped in Louisburg en route to . . . — — Map (db m77880) HM

4 ► North Carolina, Franklin County, Louisburg — E-77 — Edwin Wiley Fuller —

Poet and novelist, 1847-1876, born in Louisburg. Wrote The Angel in the Cloud and Sea Gift. House is 4 blocks West. — — Map (db m215835) HM

5 ► North Carolina, Franklin County, Louisburg — Franklin Male Academy Building — circa 1805 —

Chartered on January 6th, 1787, the earliest ancestor of Louisburg College. This building was first used in January 1, 1805. It was closed and moved to this site in 1905 from a location to the southwest. — — Map (db m77840) HM

6 ► North Carolina, Franklin County, Louisburg — Franklin's Confederate Soldiers Monument — 1861-1865 — To Our Confederate Dead — Reported permanently removed

Side 1 In memory of Franklin's Confederate Soldiers that their heroic deeds, sublime self-sacrifice and undying devotion to duty and country may never be forgotten. Side 2 Deo Vindice. "When can their glory fade? O the . . . — — Map (db m77882) WM

7 ► North Carolina, Franklin County, Louisburg — E-1 — Green Hill Place —

Site of the first annual conference of Methodist Episcopal Church, 1785, hosted in home of Green Hill, minister, one mi. S. — — Map (db m215833) HM

8 ► North Carolina, Franklin County, Louisburg — E-114 — John Williamson — 1846 - 1911 —

Former slave. Member, legislature, six terms; newspaper publisher & advocate of education. Grave is ½ mile west. — — Map (db m222541) HM

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9 ► North Carolina, Franklin County, Louisburg — E-26 — Louisburg College —

Opened in 1857 on the site of the Franklin Academy, chartered 1787. Now a Methodist Junior College, coeducational. — — Map (db m77881) HM

10 ► North Carolina, Franklin County, Louisburg — E-33 — Richard Warfington —

Member of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-06. Led the return trip from Mandan villages. Born 1777 near here. — — Map (db m215832) HM

11 ► North Carolina, Franklin County, Louisburg — E-52 — Thomas W. Bickett —

Governor, 1917-21, first in state nominated by a Democratic primary, N.C. Attorney General, member state house. Home stands ½ mi. S.W. — — Map (db m215834) HM

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