Franklin County
7 places on the trail: 7 highway markers.
Revolution and founding, 1775-1789
- E-1GREEN HILL PLACESite of the first annual conference of Methodist Episcopal Church, 1785, hosted in home of Green Hill, minister, one mi....
- E-26LOUISBURG COLLEGEOpened in 1857 on the site of the Franklin Academy, chartered 1787. Now a Methodist junior college, coeducational.
- E-33RICHARD WARFINGTONMember of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-06. Led the return trip from Mandan villages. Born 1777 near here.
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
The New South, 1878-1929
- E-114JOHN WILLIAMSON 1846-1911Former slave. Member, legislature, six terms; newspaper publisher & advocate of education. Grave is 1/2 mile west.
- E-62MOSES A. HOPKINS 1846-1886U.S. minister to Liberia, 1885-1886; black clergyman. Founder & principal of Albion Academy which stood two blocks east.
- E-52THOMAS W. BICKETTGovernor, 1917-21, first in state nominated by a Democratic primary, N.C. Attorney General, member state house. Home sta...