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Entries Containing All of the Phrases «franklin county» AND «north carolina»

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By Jimmy Emerson, October 25, 2026
John Tate Grave
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1 ► Georgia, Pickens County, Tate — John Tate — Private - PA — Revolutionary War Soldier —
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
2 ► 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
3 ► 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

4 ► Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort — Kentucky's United States Colored Troops —
Officially, 23,703 African Americans in Kentucky responded to the call to arms by President Lincoln and Frederick Douglass to join the ranks of the newly organized United States Colored Troops. Units were organized with men from across the . . . — — Map (db m84675) HM

5 ► Alabama, Colbert County, Tuscumbia — Gov. Robert Burns Lindsay / Maud McKnight Lindsay — July 4, 1824 - February 13, 1902 / May 13, 1874 - May 30, 1941 —
Gov. Robert Burns Lindsay July 4, 1824 - February 13, 1902 A native of Lochmaben, Scotland, Robert Burns Lindsay was Alabama's only foreign-born governor. He immigrated to North Carolina in 1844 and relocated to Tuscumbia in 1849, where he . . . — — Map (db m229461) HM

6 ► Virginia, Franklin County, Rocky Mount — A-97 — Washington Iron Works —
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
 
    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.
 
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Nov. 12, 2026