National Historic Landmark - Franklin B. Hough House

National Historic Landmark - Franklin B. Hough House

Residence (1863-85) of Dr. Hough, the father of American forestry.

He was the first Federal forestry official and the author of the first American book on forestry.

In 1855, Hough wrote the bill ...

National Historic Landmark-Franklin Battlefield

National Historical Landmark- Franklin Battlefield

Early on the afternoon of November 30, 1864, Gen. John Bell Hood, against the advice of his staff, ordered his Army of Tennessee to attack Union forces under the command of Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield. ...

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 ...