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 . . . — — Map (db m226876) HM
In 1853, John S, Claybrook, a Williamson County railroad visionary, led a group of about 30 local citizens to provide the initial $20,000 capital for building the Tennessee & Alabama Railroad. The City of Franklin followed with $20,000. Once the . . . — — Map (db m142176) HM
On October 27, 1906, the Franklin School Board was created by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen. In April 1907, the Tennessee Legislature officially recognized District Nine, Franklin City School System. The original Franklin Elementary School was . . . — — Map (db m83180) HM
A two-story brick courthouse was constructed where you are standing in about 1809. The "market house,” where farmers and vendors sold their produce and wares, stood "in close proximity” to the courthouse. For half a century human beings . . . — — Map (db m146043) 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 . . . — — Map (db m141977) HM
Franklin-Hillsboro Turnpike
The Franklin Hillsboro Turnpike Company was chartered March 15, 1880. The turnpike ran from the Wye at Southall and Carter's Creek Turnpike to the Cunningham Bridge on Garrison Creek. Original stockholders were . . . — — Map (db m149778) HM
This site is historically recognized for its former owner Ruth Gaylor (1902-1982) and her guest house participation in the famed Green Book. This book was first published in 1936 by Victor H. Green (1892-1960). The Green Book was the product of . . . — — Map (db m149709) HM
Front: Dedicated to Freeman’s Battery, Forrest’s Artillery and Samuel L. Freeman, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s first artillery captain. The battery was captured on the Lewisburg Pike near Franklin, TN, April 10, 1863
Rear: While advancing toward . . . — — Map (db m135828) HM WM
In 1801, a U. S. Military garrison, under the command of Capt. Robert Butler, was established here to enforce the 1785 Indian boundary along the Duck River Ridge section of the new Natchez Trace. The Anderson, Burns, Campbell, Cowan, Cunningham, . . . — — Map (db m164778) HM
In early 1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Also that year U.S. Gen. Gordon Granger and several thousand Union troops were stationed in and around Franklin. That spring those troops, with the help of some escaped . . . — — Map (db m177493) HM
Around A.D. 200, Native Americans built four
earthen mounds along the West Harpeth River.
These stood between 8 and 20 feet tall and
contained copper artifacts, demonstrating trade
between Tennessee and the Ohio valley. On
behalf of the . . . — — Map (db m151410) HM
This classic two-story Federal-style house was built c 1829 by Judge Thomas Stuart, Williamson County's first Circuit Judge. It features Flemish Bond brickwork on the front and American Bond on the sides and rear. The “glorified . . . — — Map (db m166391) HM
This site was part of a 1784 land grant to heirs of Wm. Leaton, Jr. The tract was settled in the late 1820s by W. Leaton III. By 1801 John Campbell, John Stuart, Ephriam Brown, Wm. Tarkington, and Joseph German were living in this area. Later . . . — — Map (db m149815) HM
Bought in 1944 for $4,400, the horse they said was powerful as the sun and black as midnight proved to be Harlinsdale's main claim to fame. The black stallion was not only a two-time World Champion at the Walking Horse Celebration, he also sired . . . — — Map (db m150935) HM
Revolutionary War soldiers John Beard, Henry W. Davis, John Mayberry, James Potts, and Thomas Prowell established homesteads and reared large families on Lick Creek. By 1811 Hugh Fox, Thomas and Sampson Prowell, and James Thompson had migrated . . . — — Map (db m164776) HM
(side 1)
The Halfacre Reams Fleming Family Cemetery was first laid out on one of the highest points of the Reams Fleming land. On the other prominent peak to the west was constructed Highland Hall, the land's manor house.
The prominent . . . — — Map (db m160315) HM
In 1791, Elijah Hamilton purchased 320 acres on the West Harpeth River. Around that time, he moved his family to this site, known as Hamilton Place (Williamson County Tax Book I shows he was here in 1800). The house, designed with a rigid symmetry . . . — — Map (db m200322) HM
In 1873, W.S. McLemore subdivided 15 acres which he called “Hard Bargain” because of a difficult land deal struck in 1866. Hard Bargain became a stable community, largely African-American. The Harvey McLemore house on this lot, built in . . . — — Map (db m141263) HM
Lieutenant Colonel Hardy Murfree, for whom
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is named, served in the
Continental Army. He fought in many engagements,
including Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth.
At Stony Point, he played a key role in defeating
the . . . — — Map (db m149646) HM
1.4 miles west, and north of the road, this boys' school commenced operations in 1811 under Rev. Gideon Blackburn, noted Presbyterian missionary. James Hervey Otey, later first Episcopal bishop of Tennessee, succeeded him in 1821. In 1825, the . . . — — Map (db m149651) HM
Tennessee’s Harpeth River Restoration Project is designated a keystone conservation and outdoor restoration project under President Obama’s America’s Great Outdoors program. Here, we celebrate the partnership and collaboration that resulted in . . . — — Map (db m138511) HM
(obverse)
Harpeth Square
Since 1805, there have been eight bridges along First Avenue North. Because of the destruction of the Harpeth River Bridge in 1862, approximately 800 Union Army wagons were forced to wait all day on November . . . — — Map (db m154588) HM
John B. McEwen, lawyer, bank president, developer, Progressive farmer & dairyman, investor in numerous businesses, supporter of public schools, owner of the Fernvale Hotel, and Civil War era-mayor, was one of Franklin's leading citizens. He married . . . — — Map (db m146271) HM
At age 15, Cary Harris started the Franklin weekly newspaper, The Independent Gazette. Later, in 1824, he and his future brother-in-law, Abram P. Maury, Jr., began the Nashville Clarion, followed by the Nashville Republican in 1825. He married . . . — — Map (db m146421) HM
In early 1819, Alfred Balch, Felix Grundy, James Irwin, Randal McGavock, and James Trimble developed Hincheyville, Franklin's first subdivision. The ninety acres, extending from Fair to Eleventh Avenues, including 26 lots on Fair Street, 25 lots on . . . — — Map (db m61716) HM
As the Civil War approached, Masons urged peace. James McCullum, Grand Master of Tennessee, encouraged "the brethren engaged in the lawful contest to remember that a fallen foe is a brother, and as such is entitled to warmest sympathies and . . . — — Map (db m147247) HM
Schofield, slipping his army past Hood's at Spring Hill, entrenched in the southern edge of Franklin, 2 mi. N. Here Hood attacked him frontally about 4 p.m., sustaining heavy losses. Schofield withdrew to Nashville, Hood followed. Hood's command . . . — — Map (db m135821) HM
Following the Battle of Franklin, the Union army dashed north into their supply base of Nashville and its vast network of fortifications where Gen. George H. Thomas had assembled a sizeable force. In pursuit came Gen. John Bell Hood’s battered . . . — — Map (db m103490) HM
Hughes Mill Park is dedicated to the memory of the Martin and Hughes families.
After serving on Andrew Jackson's staff in the War of 1812, Colonel "Buck" Martin returned to his middle Tennessee home, called "Rural Plains," which stood on the Town . . . — — Map (db m202641) HM
Inside the fence is a family cemetery. Buried here are James McGavock, his wife Lucinda, family members and descendants. The cemetery was part of 900 acres the McGavocks assembled in the Harpeth River in the early 1800s. During their lifetimes, they . . . — — Map (db m202638) HM
Jasmine Grove
Built as a two-story frame house in 1850 by William Many, Jasmine Grove was occupied by Union forces during the construction of Fort Granger during the Civil War. In 1916, Jasmine Grove was owned by Charles Sidway who hired . . . — — Map (db m150934) HM
Tennessee born John Adams was a West Point graduate. He was commissioned Brigadier to rank from December 29, 1862, after assuming command of Maryland born Lloyd Tilghman’s Brigade. Joining The Army of Tennessee at Resaca in May 1864, the Brigade . . . — — Map (db m137828) HM
Commissioned Brigadier to rank from July 7, 1864 Carter had worked his way up from the rank of Captain by distinguishing himself with the Army of Tennessee at Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro & Chickamauga. Taking part in the Atlanta Campaign, . . . — — Map (db m137862) HM
On this site stood the home of John H. Eaton, U.S. Senator (1818-1829) and Secretary of War under Andrew Jackson (1829-1831). He resigned from the Cabinet after a scandal which reflected on the reputation of his controversial wife, Peggy. He . . . — — Map (db m149683) HM
Born 3 miles, NE, Oct. 24,1847; member of the Legislature, 1887 to 1891, he was governor from 1891 to 1893. Elected by a farmer-labor coalition, his administration was marked by labor unrest and reform, extension of the public school system, and . . . — — Map (db m68998) HM
In 1846, David and Sarah Hawks King came from Warren County, N.C. to settle fifty acres on Backbone Ridge between Leiper's Fork and Smith's Spring. Their homestead in the vast forest gave Kingfield its name. The Kings reared a large family . . . — — Map (db m166015) HM
In 1889, Battle Ground Academy was established on a site east of Columbia Avenue in Franklin, Tennessee. In 1902, the campus moved across Columbia Avenue, and there remained until 2003. The school is presently on this Glen Echo campus, the school's . . . — — Map (db m166389) HM
In 1898 Thomas J. and Mattie Dudley Leigh purchased a 103-acre parcel of land on the west side of Hillsboro Pike in the area known as the Grassland community. Supporting the family as farm land and orchids, the property evolved into a business . . . — — Map (db m68996) HM
The Union Meeting House was built on this site in 1821. With the Restoration movement and the preaching of Andrew Craig and Joel Anderson, Leiper's Fork became the first Church of Christ south of Nashville. In 1831, Seth and Rebecca Sparkman were . . . — — Map (db m149654) HM
This Historic District, located along Lewisburg Ave. immediately south of what once was the town limit, consisted of 31 houses in 1993. The district's oldest residence is the Otey-Campbell House, built in 1840 on the corner of South Margin and . . . — — Map (db m149015) HM
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 Episcopal . . . — — Map (db m69010) HM
(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 . . . — — Map (db m188516) HM WM
In 1858, the Lotz House was built on property purchased from Fountain B. Carter by German immigrant Albert Lotz, a master carpenter and piano maker. On November 30, 1864, before the Battle of Franklin, the Lotz family sought refuge across the . . . — — Map (db m62335) HM
Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864. Federal commander, Gen. John M. Schofield. Confederate commander, Gen. John B. Hood. Bloodiest battle of the War Between the States for numbers involved. In this battle fell six Confederate generals: . . . — — Map (db m103601) HM
During the Battle of Franklin this Confederate division composed of three brigades 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 . . . — — Map (db m202694) HM
Anthony Sharpe, a Revolutionary War patriot, served in McCroy's Company, Ninth N.C. Regiment, was granted 3,840 acres of land in the new Tennessee county of Davidson. The grant was dated April 9, 1788 under Warrant No. 52 and was surveyed by William . . . — — Map (db m226877) HM
“Well, Govan, if we are to die, let us die like men.”
Nov. 30, 1864
Presented as a tribute to General Cleburne and his gallant division by Dr. and Mrs. David R. Watts — — Map (db m135825) WM
Revolutionary War Patriot Roger Mallory and his wife, Lucy, are buried in this cemetery. Roger was born 12 May 1755 in King William Co., VA, died 22 Dec. 1834 in Williamson Co., TN. Lucy died 16 Feb. 1831 in Williamson Co., TN. Roger's 1832 . . . — — Map (db m149793) HM
This Masonic Temple, home of Hiram Lodge No. 7, built in 1823, was the first three-story building in Tennessee, and was at that time, the tallest building west of the Allegheny Mountains. It has been occupied by Hiram Lodge No. 7 since its . . . — — Map (db m61690) HM WM
This oldest building on the square was built 1815-1817 by Thomas T. Maury, cousin of Matthew Fontaine Maury, “Pathfinder of the Seas,” and nephew of Abram Maury, Franklin’s founder. It has housed Franklin’s first bank, “Doctors’ . . . — — Map (db m142099) HM
Henry George Washington Mayberry (1823-1897) carved a 1,608-acre farm out of the original 5,000 acre land grant of Col. Hardy Murfree in 1848. The fertile land along Murfree's Fork provided for a rich antebellum agrarian lifestyle, complete with . . . — — Map (db m169332) HM
About 100 yards SW stood the church where Garner McConnico, a pioneer from Lunenburg Co., Va., organized a Primitive Baptist congregation about 1799. Destroyed by storm in 1909, the church was rebuilt at its present location on the Liberty Pike, . . . — — Map (db m149860) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m69042) HM
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 weeks, . . . — — Map (db m83183) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m84205) HM
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 who . . . — — Map (db m84174) HM
This house, named for its location at the confluence of the Big Harpeth and West Harpeth rivers, was built in the early 1800s by Thomas Harden Perkins (1757-1838), Revolutionary War officer, Tennessee pioneer, planter, and ironmaster. It is one of . . . — — Map (db m149798) HM
This building stands at the church's third location. The original brick sanctuary stood on the east side of First Avenue facing Church Street. Land for it had been given in 1799 by Franklin founder Abram Maury. Pioneer Methodist Bishop Francis . . . — — Map (db m149070) HM
(Front)
Twas November Thirtieth, Eighteen Sixty-Four
Mississippi’s sons and fathers into battle again were poured. The young and the old. The brave and the bold. Their mission all too plain – to charge across what would be . . . — — Map (db m137616) WM
Nicholas "Bigbee" Perkins (1779-1848) gained national fame when he helped capture Aaron Burr in the Mississippi Territory in 1807.Perkins, who was a lawyer and territorial Register of Lands, also was in charge of a small party who took Burr from Ft. . . . — — Map (db m149813) HM
This house was built before 1815 by John Motheral
(1755-1824) a Revolutionary War soldier. Originally,
the large log home faced the Harpeth River. When
the road was moved, a double front porch was added
on the north side, the logs were covered . . . — — Map (db m165624) HM
In 1823 Joseph Motheral (1791-1872) moved his family from his father's home, Harpethside, across the river to Locust Guard. Early improvements included the stone fences, log grist mill, barns, machine house for spinning and weaving, apple house, . . . — — Map (db m165626) HM
In 1827 Allen Bugg deeded 3½ acres of the “old campgrounds” to W.W. Bond, T.E. Kirkpatrick, Clement Wall and Newton Wall, trustees of Mt. Carmel Church, the first Cumberland Presbyterian Church in the county. The building, burned by . . . — — Map (db m164806) HM
The construction of Mountview, begun in the 1850s by William Aurelius and Judith Owen Davis, was completed in 1861. Federal and Confederate armies passed Mountview on their way to Nashville after the Battle of Franklin on Nov. 30, 1864. Two weeks . . . — — Map (db m161024) HM
Natchez Street Community
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 . . . — — Map (db m69021) HM
This stone is erected to preserve the memory of the Natchez Trace road. which ran a short distance westward from this point and converged to the line of this pike following it's general course. It continued southwest to Cunningham's Bridge and up . . . — — Map (db m166395) HM
Rev. Duncan Brown organized the Presbyterians in the Duck River Ridge region in 1806. The first log church, called Ridge Meeting House, was erected one mile south of here four years later; this was the first church south of Franklin in Williamson . . . — — Map (db m149774) HM
In 1799 Franklin founder Abram Maury sold Lot 20 to Joseph McBride. By 1825 Dyer Pearl, Thomas Parkes, and Joseph L. Campbell operated a steam-powered cotton & grist mill on East Margin and owned Lot 20 upon which was built a brick store in the . . . — — Map (db m61727) HM
On July 5, 1819, The Williamson County Court authorized “building of a bridge across the Harpeth at the town of Franklin.” The bridge was a large, enclosed, double covered bridge having a partition along its middle course, with two . . . — — Map (db m142259) HM
Side 1
Lieutenant Colonel Hardy Murfree-
Military Land Grant
Hardy Murfree was a lieutenant colonel in the Revolutionary War
and played a significant role in many major engagements. He was
awarded a military land grant of 5,760 . . . — — Map (db m169334) HM
Col. Emerson Opdycke's Federal brigade was positioned in this area 150 yards north of the Carter House, east and west of Columbia Pike. Without orders, the Federal brigade attacked a portion of Cleburne's and Brown's Confederate divisions after they . . . — — Map (db m135705) HM
James Woods, a local farmer, sold this property in 1847 to Bishop Miles of Nashville. He purchased the land with $400 in gold donated by the Franklin Female Academy for the purpose of building a church. Thus was begun the St. Philip Catholic . . . — — Map (db m83184) HM
Commissioned Brigadier to rank from July 28, 1863, this Ohio born “States Righter” commanded one of the “Hardest Hitting Brigades” in The Army of Tennessee. Serving in first Cheatham’s Tennessee Division then with AP Stewart . . . — — Map (db m137947) HM
In memory of our ancestors who marched with the Army of the Tenn. CSA
30 Nov. 1864
Presented by Sam Davis Camp 1293
Sons of Confederate Veterans
30 Nov. 1991 — — Map (db m137525) WM
(Front):
Erected to Confederate Soldiers
by Franklin Chapter No. 14,
Daughters of the Confederacy,
Nov. 30, A.D. 1899.
(Right panel):
We, who saw and knew them well,
are witnesses to coming ages
of their valor and . . . — — Map (db m141707) WM
The Presbyterian Church was organized in Franklin by the Reverend Gideon Blackburn on June 8, 1811 and first located near City Cemetery. The church moved to this location in 1842. The Reverend A.N. Cunningham was pastor from 1843 to 1857. In 1847, . . . — — Map (db m61726) HM
Winstead Hill is historically rooted to the City of Franklin due to a significant confrontation during the Civil War. The crest of Winstead Hill rises approximately 200 feet above downtown Franklin and is located two miles to the south. Because . . . — — Map (db m146956) HM
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
Mark Andrews (1740-1821), Revolutionary soldier
and his wife, Winifred Lyell, grandparents of the
Reverend, were the first of the Andrews family to
migrate from Virginia to Williamson County, arriving
just prior to 1800. Purchasing the NC land . . . — — Map (db m205399) 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
The Rucker-Lawrence House was erected on this
site in 1952 by Robert Rucker, Sr., a local brick
mason, building contractor and developer of Rucker
Subdivision, the first exclusive African American
subdivision developed in Franklin after World . . . — — Map (db m202649) 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
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