Development along Indian trails of the Old Federal Road began in the early 19th century to improve transportation between South Carolina and Tennessee. Although European settlement in this area began in the late 1700s, the road increased populations . . . — — Map (db m15020) HM
In 1912, William Thomas Sosby donated 1.4 acres near this site for the Red Hill School. Originally for grades 1-6, the school added grades 7-9 in 1922. After consolidation in 1925, a new school building was constructed here on land donated by Sosby . . . — — Map (db m15156) HM
Boyrereau Brinch "Jeffrey Brace". Born in 1742 in West Africa, Boyrereau Brinch was sold into slavery at age 16. Renamed Jeffrey Brace, he fought in the Seven Years War as an enslaved sailor and endured the cruelty of masters in Connecticut. . . . — — Map (db m230581) HM
In 1783 the Oconee River basin was the western boundary of the new United States of America. The first U.S. frontiersmen included surveyors, mapmakers, native guides, and naturalists.
To entice farmers to the new territory, the U.S. . . . — — Map (db m206381) HM
Parkertown was founded in 1832 in what was then Franklin County, now Hart County, by Joseph A. Parker who was born in Virginia in 1774 and moved to Elbert County, Ga. in 1796. He later moved to Big Shoal Creek where Jacob Parker & Co. founded by his . . . — — Map (db m45081) HM
(Left)
Herbert Boyd (H.B.) Crawford
U.S. Navy
Honorably Discharged
April 8, 1946
During World War II with Japan
his back was broken & both
legs were paralyzed when his
cargo ship was torpedoed
(Right)
Mabel . . . — — Map (db m56751) HM
Delegate to the Second Convention of Texas, 1833 Alcalde of Liberty Municipality, 1835 First Judge of the Municipality Born in Franklin County, Georgia March 25, 1801 Died in Galveston June 28, 1839 — — Map (db m195713) HM
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
The Franklin Guards, a company of Infantry organized in Apalachicola in 1884 by J. H. Coombs and Fred Betterfield, erected the first building in the city to be used solely as an armory in 1898. Made of simulated brick, it was located at the corner . . . — — Map (db m26120) HM
John Tate, born in Ireland in 1758, came to America in 1763. He volunteered for the Pennsylvania Militia in December 1776 from Shippensburg, Cumberland County, PA. He served as a private with Captain Robert Culbertson and later, at the Battle of . . . — — Map (db m315011) HM
Born in Franklin County, Georgia
January 25, 1803 Died at Liberty, Texas, April 20 1878 An officer at the Siege of Bexar and at San Jacinto 1837 appointed by Congress Surveyor of Liberty County 1841, Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of the 2nd . . . — — Map (db m195844) HM
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
This, the Franklin Methodist Church, erected in 1831, is one of the earliest permanent church buildings in this area. Constructed of 12x12 handhewn pine beams, the church has been extensively remodelled through the years except the steeple, which . . . — — Map (db m32779) HM
Thomas Orman (1799-1880) was an ambitious entrepreneur and significant member of the Apalachicola mercantile community. In his lifetime, Orman held title to over 39,000 acres in Franklin County. Of the many cotton warehouses once located on Water . . . — — Map (db m275855) HM
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
Apalachicola Bay is considered one of the least polluted, most undeveloped, resource rich systems in the U.S. The Apalachicola drainage basin includes upland, floodplain, riverine, estuarine, and barrier island environments all of which are . . . — — Map (db m276187) HM
When Tennessee failed to secede from the Union on February 9, 1861, Franklin County residents met here at the courthouse. They listened to attorney Peter Turney’s forceful speech offering resolutions in favor of secession and reportedly adopted them . . . — — Map (db m75226) HM
[Stone monument]
Trail of Tears
1832-1840
Arkansas River valley
routes
Choctaw – Chickasaw
Muscogee Creek
Seminole – Cherokee
[Panel]
Trail of Tears Routes through Franklin County
1. Northern Route through . . . — — Map (db m236869) HM
The John B. Busch Washington Brewery And Malt House
In about 1854 John Baptiste Busch together with his older brother, Henry Busch, and a friend, Fred Gersie, started the Washington Brewery and Malt House at Jefferson and Eighth Street. John . . . — — Map (db m268728) HM
Founding Father
Born in Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) is
remembered as the elder statesman of the American cause
during the Revolutionary War. Beyond the political arena, he
pursued many interests, including higher . . . — — Map (db m309137) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
