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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19G9_thompson-mill_Edinburgh-IN.html
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Built by James Thompson and Isaac Collier.
1850 - Thompson erected larger four-story brick mill. All flour used by Union Army during Civil War ground here.
After a fire in 1872, John A. Thompson, a son, built six-stor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19G7_the-hopewell-flag_Franklin-IN.html
Site of presentation of an American Flag to Company F. 7th Indiana volunteer Infantry Regiment August 20, 1861. The 34-star flag, sewn by ladies of Hopewell Presbyterian Church, was received at a farewell picnic in a grove on the John H. Van Nuys …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19FU_big-spring_Franklin-IN.html
1831 - - - 1931
Big Spring Center of Hopewell Settlement
This building erected by John Hoefgen, in memory of the early settlers, his Mother, Eliza Demott Hoefgen, and Uncle, Albert List, long an Elder in the Hopewell Church.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19FS_big-spring_Franklin-IN.html
In 1824, settler Simon Covert led Thomas Henderson to Big Spring. A church, school and cemetery were envisioned to the south. Henderson outwitted a man seeking this spring site for a whiskey distillery. His family, vanguard of anti-slavery Kentuck…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19FQ_old-hopewell-academy_Franklin-IN.html
1855 - - - 1889
To commemorate the Ideals and Services of the Old Hopewell Academy and the faithful labors of the Teachers who here through many years brought to the youth of this community inspiration for life through the text books they taug…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19FL_franklin-township-high-school_Franklin-IN.html
Franklin Township High School served this community as the first public school with grades one through twelve.
Although fire destroyed the building in December 1932, fire did not destroy the burning desire for education that had been establishe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19F7_hopewell-academy-1855-to-1884_Franklin-IN.html
Education-minded Hopewell Presbyterian Church members opened a six-room coed academy to the east in 1855. John Covert led builders using whip-sawed timers. Only nails were bought. Academy literary societies flourished. Pre-Civil War, it rivaled Fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19F6_providence_Bargersville-IN.html
Laid out October 31, 1835, as Union Village, Willis Deer and Corbin Utterback, proprietors. Town originated from an early trading point. Providence P. O. Established on June 17, 1880.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19F5_two-cent-road-and-three-notch-road_Franklin-IN.html
What once was a cow path became a muddy plank road later named the Two Cent Road for the toll charged. A gravel route, it angled southwest across Three Notch Road, a wilderness trail blazed by Indians who marked it slashing three notches in tall t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11R9_johnson-county-war-memorial-honor-rolls_Franklin-IN.html
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—∮— (The Great Seal) —∮—
Dedicated to these Johnson County men who, in answering the call of duty, paid the Price of Freedom
- (Seal) - United States Army - (Seal…