On Old Hollow Road, on the left when traveling west.
Jubal A. Early Homeplace Circa 1814 has been designated Virginia Historic Landmark and placed on the National Register of Historic Places 1997 — — Map (db m87173) HM
On U.S. 220 north of Naff Road (Virginia Route 613), on the right when traveling north.
Roanoke County. Area 305 Square Miles. Formed in 1838 from Botetourt and Montgomery, and probably named for Roanoke River. General Andrew Lewis lived here. The city of Roanoke is known as the Gate City of the South.
Franklin . . . — — Map (db m58381) HM
On Franklin Street (Virginia Route 40) west of Old Craft Shop Road, on the left when traveling west.
Ferrum (Latin for iron) developed ca. 1892 along the new Roanoke and Southern Railway linking Roanoke, VA, and Winston-Salem, NC, known as the "Punkin Vine" line. The village became a regional shipping hub early in the 20th century. St. James . . . — — Map (db m271771) HM
On Booker T. Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) just west of Inglewood Road (Route 672), on the left when traveling west.
Here stood Taylor’s Store, established in 1799 by Skelton Taylor, a lieutenant in the Bedford County militia during the Revolutionary War. After Franklin County was formed, Taylor became a militia captain and overseer of the poor. His store and . . . — — Map (db m65624) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) at Lost Mountain Road (Route 636), on the right when traveling east.
Oral tradition denotes this as the Sparks Cemetery. While the cemetery contains 41 fieldstone grave markers, a geophysical survey discovered a total of 83 graves. Only one stone bears an inscription, which includes the date of August 1823. The . . . — — Map (db m307375) HM
On Jubal Early Highway (Virginia Route 116) just south of Truman Hill Road (County Route 678), on the right when traveling south.
Near this place, on land occupied since the
1780s by the Early family, Confederate General
Jubal Early was born in 1816, The General
practiced law in Franklin County and served in
the Mexican War before the Civil War. Early
fought in more . . . — — Map (db m65625) HM
On Booker T. Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) east of Lost Mountain Road (County Route 636), on the right when traveling west.
Booker T. Washington was born a slave on the nearby Burroughs plantation on April 5, 1856. He was graduated from Hampton Institute in 1875 where he became an instructor. Because of his achievements as an educator, he was selected to establish a . . . — — Map (db m65611) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) 0.2 miles east of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636), on the right when traveling east.
"...my whole life has largely been one of surprises. I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life—that is, tries to make each day . . . — — Map (db m137945) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) 0.2 miles east of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636), on the right when traveling east.
Booker T. Washington, the renowned African-American leader and educator, was born into slavery on this plantation and freed here after the Civil War ended. At this national monument, you can learn about his childhood in slavery, living here with . . . — — Map (db m137933) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) 0.2 miles west of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636), on the right when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
A slave has died.
As in Africa, mourners keep all-night vigil, chanting loudly and praying. When the next day's work is done, friends of the dead slave gather from surrounding farms. Then the long procession marches out—songs and shouts, . . . — — Map (db m209518) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) 0.2 miles east of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636), on the right when traveling east.
Tobacco farmers used barns such as this to cure dark-leaf tobacco used for chewing tobacco. The tobacco plant was harvested in late August or early September, split down the middle, and hung upside down on sticks that were placed across poles inside . . . — — Map (db m307374) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) 0.2 miles east of Lost Mountain Road (Route 636), on the right when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
Booker Taliaferro, his mother Jane, elder brother John Henry, younger sister Amanda, aunt Sophia, uncle Monroe, and cousin Sally were freed here in 1865. You can walk down to the site of emancipation, where the "Big House" was located. You can . . . — — Map (db m137943) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) 0.2 miles east of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636) when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
Tobacco was the only crop grown on this farm that was sold for cash or bartered for goods. Corn, vegetables, and animals were raised to feed the people on the plantation. If a crop failed or if the tobacco barn burned down during the curing process, . . . — — Map (db m137944) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) 0.2 miles east of Lost Mountain Road, on the right.
To the slave, the forest offered more than hunting, fishing, or food. The woods were a place to meet, to rest, even to worship, away from the owner's gaze.
Today, as in Booker Washington's childhood, half of this farm is forest. A 1½-mile . . . — — Map (db m137982) HM
Near Old Hollow Lane west of Jubal Early Highway ( Route 116), on the right when traveling west.
This is the childhood home of Jubal Anderson Early, who was born on November 3, 1816. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1837 and served as a lieutenant in the Seminole War in Florida before resigning in 1838. He practiced . . . — — Map (db m87172) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) east of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636), on the right when traveling east.
The simple buildings Washington remembered are gone, but the patterns of hills, fields, and woods remain. Reconstructed buildings now recreate some of the scenes Washington knew as a child. The park brochure, available inside the visitor center, . . . — — Map (db m298743) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) east of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636), on the right when traveling east.
The Burroughs' farm was one of many tobacco plantations that dominated the 1800s landscape of Southside Virginia. Cash or credit from a few acres of tobacco financed the purchase of necessities and some luxuries. Subsistence crops of corn, wheat, . . . — — Map (db m298744) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) 0.2 miles east of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636), on the right when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
When Booker lived here as a child with his family, about ten enslaved people of African descent worked and lived on this plantation. The enslaved worked every day, for long hours, in heat and cold. They worked to keep the farm profitable, so the . . . — — Map (db m137978) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) east of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636), on the right when traveling east.
At 9 years old, Booker took his first breath of freedom here. He described the moment when he and his family were freed from slavery in his autobiography:
"My mother, who was standing by my side leaned over and kissed her . . . — — Map (db m298745) HM
Near Booker T. Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122), on the right when traveling east. Reported missing.
September 1861. Half the slaves of the South live, labor, and die on small farms like this, worked by fewer than 20 slaves. Slaves build barns, fix houses, clear fields, work gardens, fed animals, weave cloth, and sweat out the toughest domestic . . . — — Map (db m209517) HM
On Virgil H. Goode Hwy. (U.S. 220) south of Route 635, on the right when traveling south.
Here through the Maggoty Gap, the Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia to Georgia, known locally as the Carolina Road, passes through the Blue Ridge. Originating as the Great Warrior Path of the Iroquois centuries before, the path was frequently used . . . — — Map (db m63203) HM
On East College Street at Franklin Street ( Route 40), on the right when traveling east on East College Street.
On December 13, 1974, Worth Harris Carter, Jr. opened the first Carter Bank & Trust at this location. Operating under the name of First National Bank of Rocky Mount, the branch opened with eight employees. From these humble beginnings, Carter Bank & . . . — — Map (db m259212) HM
On Franklin Street 0.1 miles north of Fairlawn Drive, on the right when traveling north.
With the entire park sitting at 6.5 acres, 5.5 acres was donated to the town in 2006 by T. Keister Greer, a Rocky Mount attorney, and his wife Elizabeth. The park land sits adjacent to “The Grove” (now “The Early Inn”), which served as the Greer . . . — — Map (db m307376) HM
On Virgil H. Goode Hwy. (U.S. 220) south of Route 635, on the right when traveling south.
Ten miles southwest is Ferrum, named for iron mines nearby. Ferrum College was established by the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church in 1913 through the influence of its Woman’s Society of Christian Service. It became a junior college . . . — — Map (db m63206) HM
Near Lawndale Drive just west of South Main Street (Business U.S. 220).
Here at the house and ordinary of Col. James Callaway, proprietor of the Washington Iron Works, the first Franklin County court met to organize the new county on Monday, Jan. 2, 1976. The iron works had been established here by 1773 by Col. John . . . — — Map (db m65984) HM
On Virgil H. Goode Hwy. (U.S. 220) south of Route 635, on the right when traveling south.
Near here stood a stockade erected by Capt. Nathaniel Terry and garrisoned by men under his command. Washington made “Terry’s Fort” a link in his chain of forts and inspected it in the fall of 1756. — — Map (db m63202) HM
On Franklin Street (Virginia Route 40) just south of North Main Street (Business U.S. 220).
Franklin County. Welcome to Franklin County, the eastern gateway to The Crooked Road, a journey through Southwest Virginia's musical heritage that winds through the Appalachian Mountains for 265 miles. Franklin County has always been a cultural . . . — — Map (db m71564) HM
On South Main Street (Business U.S. 220) at East Court Steeet, on the right when traveling north on South Main Street.
(Northwest side)
To the memory of
The Confederate Dead
of Franklin County
1861-1865
(Northeast side)
Co. B 57th Va. Inf.
Co. C 57th Va. Inf.
Co. G 57th Va. Inf.
Co. D 58th Va. Inf. . . . — — Map (db m259208) WM
On Franklin Street (Virginia Route 40) just west of North Main Street (Business U.S. 220).
One in a class of 200 built by International Railway Car Company, Kenton, Ohio between December, 1968 and
February, 1970. The “P” denotes pool service and meant the caboose could travel any portion of the N & W System.
Before air brakes, . . . — — Map (db m71566) HM
On South Main Street (Business U.S. 220) close to West and East Court Streets, on the left.
This place was established as the county seat when Franklin County was formed. The first court was held in March, 1786. The first (log) courthouse was replaced in 1831. In 1836 the town consisted of 30 dwellings and a number of business houses. . . . — — Map (db m65950) HM
On Franklin Street (Virginia Route 40) south of High Street, on the right when traveling north.
Honoring these African American veterans of the American Civil War born in Franklin County. These USCT served in the U.S. military 1863 - 1866
Pvt John Adams •
Pvt Archibald Allen •
Pvt James Arnold •
Pvt Edward Arrington •
Pvt . . . — — Map (db m298671) WM
On South Main Street (Business U.S. 220) near Old Furnace Road, on the right when traveling south.
Here stands the furnace and ironmaster’s house of the Washington Iron Works, Franklin County’s first industry. Originally established in 1773 by Col. John Donelson, father-in-law of President Andrew Jackson, the iron plantation was acquired in 1779 . . . — — Map (db m65983) HM
On Virginia Avenue (U.S. 220) at Oak Forest Road ( Route 984), in the median on Virginia Avenue.
Franklin County. Area 697 Square Miles. Formed in 1785 from Henry and Bedford and added to from Patrick. Named for Benjamin Franklin. General Jubal A. Early lived in this county.
Henry County. Area 444 Square . . . — — Map (db m63193) HM
Near Plantation Trail east of Plantation Trail Spur, on the left when traveling east.
In 1860, the Burroughs owned four horses which they sheltered in a barn similar to this. Besides serving as the family's transportation, they pulled plows through fields and hauled wagonloads of cured tobacco leaves to the factory. Washington . . . — — Map (db m298748) HM
Near Plantation Trail east of Plantation Trail Spur, on the left when traveling east.
Booker took an interest in farm animals as a result of his required daily chores. He gathered chicken eggs as one of his first morning tasks, fed the pigs, visited the cows, and cleaned out animal stalls and enclosures.
On Booker T. Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) at Smith Mountain Lake, the county line, on the right when traveling south on Booker T. Washington Highway.
Appalachian Power Company built Smith Mountain and Leesville Dams between 1960 and 1963 to generate hydroelectric energy. West of Smith Mountain Dam, the waters of the Roanoke and Blackwater Rivers formed Smith Mountain Lake, covering 20,600 acres . . . — — Map (db m104438) HM
