Florida Monument-Franklin

Maintained by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the McGavock Confederate Cemetery is believed to be the largest privately held Confederate cemetery in the United States.

It contains the remains of nearly 1,500 Confederate casualties from the November 1864 Battle ...

National Historic Landmark - Franklin & Armfield Office

Between 1828 and 1836, Isaac Franklin, in partnership with John Armfield, created the largest-scale slave trading operation in the antebellum South. They established their headquarters in Alexandria (then a part of the District of Columbia), adjacent to an area with ...

First United Methodist Church Jasper/President Franklin Delano R

Attends Funeral of William Brockman Bankhead

Side 1

Methodism came to Jasper with the city's founder, Dr. Edward Gordon Musgrove, who donated land for the courthouse and for most of downtown Jasper. In 1826, he and others constructed a building of large ...

The Franklin Cantonment

Fort George G. Meade

In the summer of 1918 the Franklin Cantonment, a Signal Corps Camp of Instruction, opened within 1 mile of the original Camp Meade. This 400-acre camp housed 11,000 men and women (19 battalions) in 599 structures. The ...

Franklin Township WWII Memorial

1941 - 1945

In the glory of their youth we will remember them. Our dead shall not have died in vain.

Orrin C. Boice •

Frederick E. Dissler •

Andrew J. Hodulik •

Robert V. Leusenring •

Porter C. Little

Dedicated to our ...

Franklin Square - "Going into the country"

Civil War to Civil Rights

This urban oasis exists because President Andrew Jackson needed water. The site of excellent springs (a rare commodity in the early city when everyone was dependent on private wells), this square was purchased by the ...

Josiah and Abiah Franklin

Josiah Franklin and Abiah his wife

lie here interred.

They lived lovingly together in wedlock fifty-five years, and without an estate, or any gainful employment, by constant labor and honest industry, maintained a large family comfortably, and brought up thirteen children and ...

Benjamin Franklin

Front of Monument:

Born in Boston, 17 January, 1706.

Died in Philadelphia, 17 April, 1790.

Right Side of Monument:

Treaty of Peace and Independence

3 September, 1783

Rear of Monument:

Eripuit Colo Tulmen Sceptrumque Tyrannis.

Left Side of Monument:

Declaration ...

Franklin

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 ...

Battle of Franklin

“Jumping out of bed”

The war seemed far from Franklin when Union forces captured Roanoke Island and the North Carolina Sounds in February 1862. In May, however, when they occupied Norfolk and Suffolk to control both coastal Virginia and North Carolina, ...