Railroad Section Foreman's House
Built around 1870, this quaint structure was home for the foreman, who oversaw all track maintenance for this section of railroad between Nashville and Columbia. Across the railroad tracks near the riverbank two . . . — — Map (db m149275) HM
Reconstruction began when the Civil War ended in 1865. The war had saved the Union, and the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ended slavery. Ratified during Reconstruction, the 14th and 15th Amendments guaranteed citizenship and voting rights . . . — — Map (db m146101) HM
In 1855, eminent Franklin lawyer John Marshall gave a seven-acre lot for a new cemetery to be located immediately west of the City Cemetery. Early Methodist minister Thomas L. Douglass and numerous Confederate soldiers are buried here. Among the . . . — — Map (db m141364) HM
Bringing Back the American Chestnut
In 1983 a dedicated group of scientists founded The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) with the mission of restoring the American chestnut to our eastern forests to benefit our environment, our wildlife, and . . . — — Map (db m143899) HM
On Dec 17, 1864, perhaps the largest cavalry engagement on American soil took place along Franklin Pike and the Nashville & Decatur RR sweeping across what is now Harlinsdale farm. Maj Gen James H. Wilson’s US Cavalry Corps pursued Hood’s retreating . . . — — Map (db m137256) HM
(prelude)
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." . . . — — Map (db m150917) HM
One of Tennessee's most outstanding Wood craftsmen, Richard "Dick" Poynor was listed in the 1860 census as a free mulatto. He was literate, a man of property, and a member of the Leipers Fork Primitive Baptist Church, a white congregation. Poynor's . . . — — Map (db m149653) HM
Built in 1902 by Henry Hunter Mayberry (1861-1931), a native of Williamson County and a man of integrity, broad vision and generosity. He was the developer of Franklin’s water system and gave the only spring large enough to service it. In 1908 he . . . — — Map (db m68999) HM
(side 1)
Roper's Knob in the Civil War
Franklin was located along the Nashville & Decatur Railroad, linking Middle Tennessee to points north and south. As a result, this region became a major objective for Union and Confederate . . . — — Map (db m149795) HM
He is a local guy, a loyal, hardworking factory man and is employed by the Factory at Franklin. Rusty is both dependable and moral and stands as a tribute to American industry and to all working people.
He is clocking out, leaving the Factory . . . — — Map (db m150314) HM
At this location on the night of March 7, 1925, Federal Revenue officer Sam Locke was murdered while opening the front gate. Three months before his death, Locke had resigned as deputy under Sherriff W.W. Crockett for lack of support in his efforts . . . — — Map (db m146428) HM
Samuel Winstead, a native of Virginia, came here in 1799. At his death, his $34,000 estate included several tracts of land and 78 slaves. His will granted freedom and passage to Liberia for all his slaves upon the death of his wife. At . . . — — Map (db m62197) HM
This community was named for James Southall, a soldier in the Battle of New Orleans. In 1876 Sam Allen, James banks, J.S. Cotton, C.D. Kirkpatrick, Byron Lillie, and Theo Scruggs organized and built the Berea Church of Christ. A public school was . . . — — Map (db m149781) HM
This "Mother Church of the diocese of Tennessee," was begun in 1831, four years after its congregation was organized in 1827. Here James H. Otey, its first rector, was elected the first bishop of Tennessee. It was so damaged through use as a Civil . . . — — Map (db m61697) HM
(side 1)
Missionary priests first celebrated mass in Franklin in 1821 in a private home for the two resident Catholic families. The Nashville bishopric planned a Catholic church in Williamson County as early as 1843, but it was the influx . . . — — Map (db m149685) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m103328) HM
The Tragedy [sic] of Franklin quite possible may have been averted had this scholarly South Carolina Blue Blood been given the promotion to division command that his service record warranted. Completely reorganizing the South Carolina State . . . — — Map (db m138048) HM
On a November afternoon in 1864 brave Confederate sons of Tennessee moved forward into battle against Federal lines entrenched two miles north. Winstead Hill served as the place of assembly and was an observation point during the battle. . . . — — Map (db m137700) HM WM
Side A
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 . . . — — Map (db m77127) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m136447) HM
No words can describe the courage, endurance, and gallantry of the Army of Tennessee. They marched, fought, bled, and died for a Cause they knew was right. On that Indian Summer afternoon of November 30, 1864, the courageous Army of Tennessee . . . — — Map (db m135823) WM
The Mighty Giant
The American chestnut tree was once one of the most important trees in our eastern forest. The tree’s native range extended from Georgia all the way to Maine and west to the Ohio River Valley. In the Appalachian Mountains, . . . — — Map (db m144259) HM
Soon after passing this point, the Southern assault came within range of Federal artillery. Just west of here, an advanced line of 3,000 Union troops began to fall back, and the Confederates pursued them into the main Union line. In moments, the . . . — — Map (db m103360) HM
On the morning of November 30, 1864, some 5,000 Federal cavalrymen under Gen. James H. Wilson were in this area. Most were located to your right front, east of the Harpeth River, but Gen. John T. Croxton’s brigade remained west of the river. By late . . . — — Map (db m138467) HM
On November 30, 1864, one of the last major battles of the American Civil War exploded across the rolling farmland just south of Franklin. Approximately 20,000 United States soldiers under Gen. John M. Schofield barely held off a massive attack by . . . — — Map (db m145948) HM
Fountain Branch Carter brought nineteen acres of Columbia Pike from Angus McPhail in 1829 and completed his house the next year for himself, his wife Polly, and their children. The farm’s prosperity was directly connected to the four to fifteen . . . — — Map (db m138861) HM
Of the more than 12,000 enslaved people who lived in Williamson County in 1860, Fountain Branch Carter owned 28. Carter family records contain many of their names: Prescyt, Harriet, Jack, Calphurnia, Petrenella, Clara, Charlie, Frank, Susie, Oscar, . . . — — Map (db m139024) HM
You are standing where the 1st Kentucky Light Artillery Battery (US) was posted during the battle, staring down the Confederate advance. The battery was organized in September 1861 under Capt. David Stone and consisted of four three-inch rifled . . . — — Map (db m139170) HM
The Columbia Pike began as a path that bison and other animals created en route to the salt lick at present-day Nashville. Native Americans used this and other trails for hunting as well as for travel. In the 19th century, the trails formed the . . . — — Map (db m139333) HM
Gen. Jacob D. Cox’s Division, XXIII Corps, led the Federal army to the outskirts of Franklin before dawn on November 30, 1864. While army commander Gen. John M. Schofield inspected the bridges on the Harpeth River, Cox set up his headquarters behind . . . — — Map (db m139441) HM
After the Battle of Franklin, veterans on both sides vividly recollected F.B. Carter’s “old cotton gin.” Built early in the 1850s, it figured importantly in countless stories about the heaviest fighting, which unfolded here at the . . . — — Map (db m139623) HM
Just before 4:30 P.M., when the bulk of Confederate Gen. Patrick Cleburne’s Division struck this part of the main Federal line, the 100th Ohio Infantry buckled under the pressure. Although Cleburne had been killed just south of here, his men slammed . . . — — Map (db m139624) HM
Southern farming was transformed as the 19th century dawned. Subsistence farming and plantations devoted to tobacco, rice, and sugar cane had long been dominant. Two events changed the agricultural formula.
First, Eli Whitney invented the . . . — — Map (db m139690) HM
Here at Franklin in November 1864 when the hopes of 1861 seemed just a fleeting memory, the soldiers of the Army of Tennessee attacked furiously toward you across the rolling fields. A Federal officer who was here saw their “red-and-white . . . — — Map (db m139861) HM
Emancipation created a novel problem for cash-poor white Southern farmers as well as the newly freed slaves, or freedmen. Land was abundant, but the labor force was largely dispersed, and there was little money to hire available black or white . . . — — Map (db m139947) HM
Elements of four Confederate divisions rushed toward you on November 30, 1864, to assault the Federal line behind you. Gens. Patrick R. Cleburne, Samuel G. French, John C. Brown, and Edward C. Walthall commanded th3e divisions. Their men hailed from . . . — — Map (db m140056) HM
Just before sundown on November 30, 1864, 3,000 Confederate soldiers charged past here and smashed into the main Federal line fewer than 200 feet ahead of you. They belonged to Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne’s Division, the most battle-hardened unit of . . . — — Map (db m140233) HM
You are standing in the Confederate line of attack during the battle, where Gen. Francis Marion Cockrell’s 1st Missouri Brigade came under and returned heavy fire. Cockrell, an attorney in Warrensburg, Missouri, before the war, fought at Wilson’s . . . — — Map (db m140242) HM
(preface)
In September 1864, after Union Gen. William T. Sherman defeated Confederate Gen. John Bell Hool at Atlanta, Hood let the Army of Tennessee northwest against Sherman's supply lines. Rather than contest Sherman's "March to the Sea," . . . — — Map (db m120387) HM
Into this area rushed elements of four Confederate divisions on November 30, 1864 as they assaulted the Federal lines near the Carter cotton gin. Crossed largely by troops from Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne’s Division, the area was flooded by men . . . — — Map (db m137249) HM
In late 1864, the last major campaign of the Civil War swept into Middle Tennessee. The Confederate Army of Tennessee commanded by Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood, moved out of Georgia after the fall of Atlanta, marched across Alabama, and pushed north . . . — — Map (db m103359) HM
Several armed clashes occurred among political groups and the white and black populations after the Civil War. In May 1866, Memphis rioters killed about fifty. In July, a riot engulfed New Orleans, killing almost 240 including more than 200 U.S. . . . — — Map (db m147912) HM
The last state to leave the Union, Tennessee became the first to reenter in 1866. But the end of the Civil War did not bring an end to hardships. no other state except Virginia except Virginia experienced more military engagements than Tennessee. . . . — — Map (db m103485) HM
Restored to its mid-nineteenth century layout and appearance, this nearly one acre garden was an important feature for the residents of Carnton. An earlier garden was located on the southeastern side of the home, but was removed and relocated to . . . — — Map (db m142906) HM
The Old Natchez Trace
This original 4.1 mile stretch of the Old Natchez Trace from Old Hillaboro Road to Sneed Road has been in continual use since 1801 and is part of the Williamson County road system. In this short piece of the original . . . — — Map (db m149812) HM
Dr. Walter Pyle (1908-1977) opened his clinic at 407 Church Street in 1941. He acquired this property from C.W. Harper for $700, building the block and stucco structure for $7,000. As one of the few local full-service clinics, the Pyle Clinic is . . . — — Map (db m149351) HM
Front:
The Florida soldier for duty’s sake, undaunted, stood to the front of the battle until no light remained to illuminate the field of carnage, save the luster of his chivalry and courage.
Finley’s Brigade
Col. Robert Bullock . . . — — Map (db m137689) WM
This cemetery is named for Toussaint L'Ouverture, a slave leader whose rebellion led to Haiti's independence in 1804. The cemetery is the final resting place for many Williamson County African-Americans. Among the ex-slaves buried here are A. N. C. . . . — — Map (db m149652) HM
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 Knob. . . . — — Map (db m54053) HM
Tyler Berry, Jr. (12.4.1912-2.27.1996) was the original Tennessee Volunteer, Lawyer, Farmer and Outdoorsman and always a man of integrity and honor. Growing up on the Reams Fleming Place and Chadwell Place, he energetically ran his traps before . . . — — Map (db m160320) HM
After the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, the U.S. War Department created the Bureau of Colored Troops on May 22, 1863. Approximately 200,000 African American men enlisted in segregated U.S. Army regiments under white officers and served in . . . — — Map (db m146135) HM
U.S. Model 1841 6-Pounder Field Guns
In 1908, the U.S. War Dept. loaned the four bronze gun tubes on the Square to Franklin. The N.P. Ames Co. and Cyrus Alger & Co. in Mass. cast the guns between 1847 and 1861. These guns were among the last to . . . — — Map (db m141872) HM
This Monument memorializes War of 1812 soldiers buried along the Old Natchez Trace, and it honors the service of all brave volunteers who marched on the Natchez Trace during the War of 1812 to help establish American Independence.
The Natchez . . . — — Map (db m83188) HM
(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 . . . — — Map (db m83189) HM WM
In 2009, a construction project along Columbia Pike 2.5 miles south of here unearthed human bone fragments, in an area that was part of the Franklin battlefield. Forensic anthropologists determined that these were the remains of a Civil War . . . — — Map (db m141485) HM
Walter Aiken Roberts (June 4, 1865 - July 3, 1948), born in Pulaski (Giles County) Tennessee, son of Dr. Joseph Coleman Roberts (11.18.1821 - 3.24.1898) and Sarah Jane Anthony Roberts (1.23.1832 - 12.24.1901).
W.A. Roberts married . . . — — Map (db m151199) HM
Winstead Hill Park is located approximately two miles south of downtown Franklin. The hill’s name comes from an early inhabitant of Williamson County, Samuel Winstead, who owned the land. Some 19 years before the Civil War, he executed a . . . — — Map (db m146925) HM
The church was founded in or about 1869 under the leadership of Elder Peter Starnes. The uncertainty of the founding year is because the recorded minutes of the Third Annual Session of the Colored United Baptist Association held in Pulaski, . . . — — Map (db m156519) HM
In 1807 William I. Boyd of Halifax Co. VA purchased 216 ¼ acres from the Robert Hay 640-acre N.C. land grant and built the present log homestead overlooking the West Harpeth River and the Natchez Trace. His log home, with its 1840 addition, is . . . — — Map (db m150384) HM
Dedicated to the men and women of Williamson County who served their country in time of need
October 26, 1799 • October 26, 1999 — — Map (db m61731) WM
Williamson County Jails
Williamson County has had seven jails since 1800. Bridge Street has been the location of five. From 1800 to 1816, the first jail was located at 117 Third Avenue North. In 1817, a two-story log jail was built on the . . . — — Map (db m150915) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m69031) HM
(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 . . . — — Map (db m135822) HM
“The line advanced at 4 p.m. with orders to drive the enemy into or across the Big Harpeth River… Never did troops fight more gallantly.”
Gen. John Bell Hood
Army of Tennessee
Confederate States of America — — Map (db m135826) HM WM
Nicholas Perkins (1779 - 1848) established this 12000-acre estate about 3 miles S.W. in 1810. In 1807, an official Mississippi Territory, he had arrested former vice president Aaron Burr and taken him from Ft. Stoddert, Mss., to Richmond, Va., for . . . — — Map (db m158703) HM
(side 1)
Bank of Leiper's Fork
The Bank of Leiper's Fork was organized in 1911 with a capital stock of $10,000. Bank officials included President Bennett Hunter, Vice President P.O. Hassell and Cashier W.L. Pinkerton. Board members . . . — — Map (db m61734) HM
This seven-foot deep, hand-dug well and the slave cabin 115 yards south were once part of the 2,560-acre plantation of the Ann Gooch Benton family who moved here in 1801 from Hillsborough, N.C. The Benton home stood on the Natchez Road (now Old . . . — — Map (db m150329) HM
Situated on the Natchez Trace, the village and stream were named for pioneer surveyor Hugh Leiper. The Adams, Benton, Bond, Carl, Cummins, Davis, Dobbins, Hunter, Meadows, Parham, Southall, and Wilkins families were early settlers. Later, the . . . — — Map (db m149777) HM
Born near Hillsborough, N.C., and in 1801 moved his widowed mother and seven siblings to a 2,500-acre tract on Leiper’s Fork Creek. This settlement was originally called Bentontown, then Hillsboro. Upon this site stood the Benton log home until . . . — — Map (db m149964) HM
A member of Coleman's Scouts, CSA, he was captured in a cornfield about 1½ mi. W., Aug. 29, 1864, by a patrol from the 115th Ohio Cav. Swallowing his dispatches, he was mutilated and tortured to make him reveal their contents. Refusing, he was . . . — — Map (db m143463) HM
Green Grove Primitive Baptist Church
After the Civil War, African Americans who had been enslaved in the Triune area of eastern Williamson County organized to create a church and school. The D.K. Bostic family donated this site for that . . . — — Map (db m143457) HM
William Nolen purchased a portion of a land grant to Jason Thompson on which Nolensville was later built. In the early 1800s a large migration from Rockingham N.C. brought the Adams, Allen, Barnes, Cyrus, Fields, Glenn, Irion, Johnson, Peay, Scales, . . . — — Map (db m32815) HM
This cemetery was begun in 1899 by J.W. Williams on land bought from Isaac Neely. The Mid-section began in 1917 as the S.G. Jenkins cemetery. J. W. Williams bought adjoining land in 1925 and expanded the Jenkins cemetery. More land was added by C. . . . — — Map (db m151190) HM
Nolensville School was first proposed in the early 1930's by members
of the community and the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) out of
concern for their aging school's deterioration and consolidation of small,
one-room school houses nearby. . . . — — Map (db m149865) HM
This church was founded in 1837 as Mt. Olivet Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Original trustees were Joseph Critchlow, John Hay, Benjamin Johnson, Benjamin King, John Matthews, Phillip Owen, and Nathaniel Owen. Originally, the church was located . . . — — Map (db m149868) HM
Sherwood Green (1766-1840) came to Tennessee in the late 1700s from Warren County, North
Carolina as a member of a team charged with surveying Revolutionary War grants. The group
was headed by his father-in-law, Col. William Christmas, who became . . . — — Map (db m151189) HM
After destroying a sizeable wagon train at Rock Springs, about six miles northeast, Wheeler's Confederate raiders late in the afternoon here captured about 200 prisoners, destroyed a wagon train and took with them a number of ambulances. They then . . . — — Map (db m149866) HM
About ½ mile east, Buford's Division of Forrest's Cavalry Corps drove in pickets from Opdyke's and Lane's Federal Brigades and contained their defenses, extending west to the railroad. Meanwhile, Stewart's Corps, marching north further . . . — — Map (db m75097) HM
In the spring of 1863 the Federal Army operating out of Nashville made several foraging expeditions into this area collecting food and hay. At this site, General Earl Van Dorn’s Confederate Cavalry Corps defeated a Federal task force under Col. John . . . — — Map (db m83191) HM
Bethesda is a Biblical name meaning "House of Mercy." Early family names in the community included Alexander, Bond, Blythe, Grigsby, Irvin, Sprott, Steeke, and Waddey. Beloved area physicians were Drs. Blythe, Core, Eggleston, and Bennett. Gone but . . . — — Map (db m149771) HM
Built between 1809 and 1819 by Francis Giddens, Revolutionary war gunsmith from Virginia, this house served as a refuge for neighbors during the Battle of Thompson's Station in 1863. During the fight, 17 year~old Alice Thompson, dashed out of the . . . — — Map (db m145755) HM
Moving rapidly south through Franklin, Stephen D. Lee's Corps with Chalmers' Cavalry Division attached, took up a delaying position in this area about 1:00 P.M. They beat off attacks by Wood's IV Corps & Wilson's Cavalry. Here, Gen. Lee was wounded; . . . — — Map (db m104201) HM
(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 . . . — — Map (db m75122) HM
This replica of the original depot was built in 1993 with monetary donations as well as donations of materials and labor from many different organizations and individuals. Materials were selected to comply as nearly as possible with the original . . . — — Map (db m75125) HM
Dr. Jonathan Bostick, a resident of Triune who died in 1872 at his cotton plantation in Mississippi, bequeathed funds for this school. It was his desire to replace the famed Porter Female Academy, burned by Union soldiers in 1863, and to maintain . . . — — Map (db m54040) HM
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 yards south at the driveway . . . — — Map (db m83192) HM
Leaving its overnight bivouac three miles west, Wheeler's Cavalry Brigade, having passed completely around Rosecrans' army, crossed the highway here about 3:30 A.M., rejoining Bragg's Army of Tennessee in time to actively screen its left flank . . . — — Map (db m143462) HM
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