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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B24_original-st-philip-catholic-church_Franklin-TN.html
James Woods, a local farmer, sold this property in 1847 to Bishop Miles of Nashville. He purchased the land with $400 in gold donated by the Franklin Female Academy for the purpose of building a church. Thus was begun the St. Philip Catholic Commu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B23_riverview_Franklin-TN.html
Built in 1902 by Henry Hunter Mayberry (1861-1931), a native of Williamson County and a man of integrity, broad vision and generosity. He was the developer of Franklin's water system and gave the only spring large enough to service it. In 1908 he …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B22_john-price-buchanan_Franklin-TN.html
Born 3 miles, NE, Oct. 24,1847; member of the Legislature, 1887 to 1891, he was governor from 1891 to 1893. Elected by a farmer-labor coalition, his administration was marked by labor unrest and reform, extension of the public school system, and g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B20_leigh-morgan-property-at-grassland_Franklin-TN.html
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In 1898 Thomas J. and Mattie Dudley Leigh purchased a 103-acre parcel of land on the west side of Hillsboro Pike in the area known as the Grassland community. Supporting the family as farm land and orchids, the property evolved into …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16QP_carnton-plantation_Franklin-TN.html
Carnton was built ca. 1815 by Randal McGavock (1768-1843), planter, political leader and mayor of Nashville. Named after the McGavock home in Northern Ireland, the house was greatly enlarged by Randal ca.1826. His son, John, later added the Greek …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16QN_confederate-cemetery_Franklin-TN.html
Following the Battle of Franklin, Nov 30, 1864, John McGovock, owner of "Carnton," collected and buried here the bodies of 1496 Confederates. The five general officers killed there were interred elsewhere after being brought to the house. Other Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16K2_newton-cannon_College-Grove-TN.html
0.7 mile. The grave of this combat veteran and statesman is on the land to which his father, a Revolutionary veteran, brought his family from North Carolina in 1791. In addition to his distinguished military record, he was twice a member of Congre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16CB_lotz-house_Franklin-TN.html
(Preface): In September 1864, after Union Gen. William T. Sherman defeated Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood at Atlanta, Hood let the Army of Tennessee northwest against Sherman's supply lines. Rather than contest Sherman's "March to the Sea," Hood …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16C8_lotz-house_Franklin-TN.html
In 1858, the Lotz House was built on property purchased from Fountain B. Carter by German immigrant Albert Lotz, a master carpenter and piano maker. On November 30, 1864, before the Battle of Franklin, the Lotz family sought refuge across the stre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16C5_carter-gin-house_Franklin-TN.html
The Carter cotton gin house, the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of the Battle of Franklin, was located about 80 yards east of Columbia Pike. General Adams, Cleburne and Granbury were killed near here. The gin house, a weatherboarded, fram…