Cigar Factory

On Court Street Behind the Historic Chamber of Commerce Building

By 1906 the factory employed 400 girls at the wage of $60.00 per month.

By November 1907 the factory was turning out 1 million cigars a month.

The land was purchased for $2,000.00 ...

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, ...

Site of Ellenton

Post office est. here 1873. Town chartered 1880. Ellenton and surrounding area purchased by US Govt in early 1950s for establishment of Savannah River Plant.

Marker is on Atomic Road (South Carolina Route 125) near Government 3, on the right when ...

Confederate Commissary Center

Swimming in Bacon

Before the Civil War erupted, Franklin became a regional transportation and commercial center for the Blackwater-Chowan River basin because the seaboard and Roanoke Railroad connected with steamship lines here. When the war began, the town immediately became a ...

Site of Territorial Courthouse

The courthouse you see today, constructed in 1916 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places, is not th original one on this site. The first courthouse construted on the Plaza, one of two city blocks set aside in ...

Cobre Valley Center for the Arts

You are standing next to the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts, located in the Old Gila County Courthouse. In 1905, stone masons working on Roosevelt Dam were contracted to build this imposing structure which is on the National Register ...

R.T. Foard and Jones Funeral Home

Completed in 1886, this was the home and place of business of Theodore F. Armstrong, a prominent local merchant and civic leader. Reflecting the growing prosperity of the community and its residents, this hybrid of Queen Anne and Gothic architecture ...

Rocketts Landing and Wharf / Confederate Navy Yard / Powhatan’s

(bottom panel)

Rocketts Landing and Wharf

Rocketts is the river frontage and community named for Robert Rockett, who operated a ferry across the James River beginning in the 1730s. Over the years, tenant laborers and merchants filled the floodplain with clusters of ...

Five Indian Nations

To commemorate the great congress of

five Indian Nations held here at Fort

Augusta in 1763. When seven hundred

Indians came to meet the Governors of

Georgia, Virginia, North and South Carolina.

Marker is on Washington Street near Reynolds St.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Montgomery’s Slave Markets / First Emancipation Observance - 186

Side A

The city’s slave market was at the Artesian Basin (Court Square). Slaves of all ages were auctioned, along with land and livestock, standing in line to be inspected. Public posters advertised sales and included gender, approximate age, first name ...