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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BD3_william-bartram-naturalist_Franklin-NC.html
William BartramNaturalist
Visited this area of the Cherokee Nationin May, 1775
while on his mission to record the natural
and cultural resources along the trading
route between the Low Country to the east
and the Overhill Country to the west…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BD2_the-north-carolina-bartram-trail_Franklin-NC.html
The North Carolina Bartram Trail is a hiking trail to commemorate the 1775 visit of Philadelphia naturalist William Bartram to Western North Carolina. Begun in the 1970s, the trail parallels Bartram's actual route into Cherokee country. It begins …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BD1_gem-mining_Franklin-NC.html
Long before the first settlers arrived here in 1818, this area teased explorers with hints of mineral wealth — especially gold, silver and copper. Not much interest was taken in Macon County's gemstones until a farmer turned up some strange …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FGF_nikwasi-mound_Franklin-NC.html
You are standing on land that has been part of a town for about three thousand years. This mound was the spiritual, political, and physical center of the Cherokee town of Nikwasi. A council house or town house on top of the mound held the sacred f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FF4_silas-mcdowell_Franklin-NC.html
Botanical and historical writer; horticulturist. Originated concept of a temperate "thermal belt." Home stood 1/5 mi. W.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FF3_dixie-hall_Franklin-NC.html
Here stood Dixie Hall, the home of prosperous local merchant Julius T. Siler. A landowner and slaveholder. Siler joined the Confederate army along with about 3,000 other Macon County men and served as the captain of Company E, 6th North Carolina C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FEN_thomass-legion_Franklin-NC.html
Confederate Col. William H. Thomas organized Thomas Legion of Cherokee Indians and Mountaineers is western North Carolina in September 1862. The people of this area were sometime referred to as highlanders, and local residents called Thomas unit t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FEM_macon-county-confederate-memorial_Franklin-NC.html
(front)
In memory of
The Sons of Macon County
who served in the
Confederate Army
during the
War Period
1861-1865
Co. H, 16th Regiment, N.C.T. Infantry
(side)
Co. I, 39th Regiment, N.C.T. Infantry
Co. E, 65th Regiment N.C.T. 6th Cavalry
(rear)
…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K5_battle-of-echoe_Franklin-NC.html
Beginning in 1758, South Carolina engaged in a four-year war with the Cherokee Indians, whose descendants now live in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. This war resulted from French efforts to incite the Southern Indians against the Br…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K3_nikwasi_Franklin-NC.html
This mound marks site of old Cherokee town, Nikwasi. A council of Sir Alexander Cuming with the Indians here lead to a treaty, 1730.