Site of the Home of William Hugh Smith
Legislator, Governor
An opponent of secession, he fled north in 1862. Returning after the Civil War, he was elected first governor under the Constitution of 1868 and served one two-year term. He was one of three Republican governors.
Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 431) and Woodland Avenue, in the median on Main Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
