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Related Historical Markers
By Cynthia L. Clark, August 16, 2017
Detail of the Seal of Virginia.
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| Near Clay Street (Business U.S. 58) at Meadow Lane, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Dedicated to those who gave their lives
in defense of our state and our nation
Originally a part of the James L. Camp homeplace,
the park was given to the town of Franklin in 1946
by the children of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Camp.
Rena . . . — — Map (db m125377) WM |
| On South Main Street at South Street, on the left when traveling south on South Main Street. |
| | Incorporated as a town in 1876, Franklin began as a Southampton County village in the 1830s. In October, 1862, during the Civil War, Union gunboats on the Blackwater River shelled the town and the railroad station. Several skirmishes occurred nearby . . . — — Map (db m18144) HM |
| On Homestead Road near Wynnwood Drive, on the right when traveling north. |
| | George Camp, Jr. (1793-1879) acquired this land in 1826. Several of his children incorporated the Camp
Manufacturing Company in 1887 to operate sawmills. The company expanded into a wood product
manufacturing company and later a paper mill. . . . — — Map (db m69463) HM |
| Near Main Street (U.S. 258) at South Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| |
Paul and James Camp started P.D. Camp and Company, a lumber business, in 1877. The brothers bought R.J. Neely's sawmill in 1886 and established Camp Manufacturing Company in 1887. The original Franklin mill was steam powered and lay on a . . . — — Map (db m51001) HM |
| On Carrsville Highway (U.S. 58/258), on the right when traveling north. |
| | This industrial complex evolved from a sawmill
that operated here prior to the Civil War. In
1887, three brothers, Paul D. Camp, James L.
Camp, and Robert J. Camp, founded Camp
Manufacturing Company, later Union Camp Corporation
The lumbering . . . — — Map (db m69786) HM |
May. 29, 2024