Paul and James Camp started P.D. Camp and Company, a lumber business, in 1877. The brothers bought R.J. Neely's sawmill in 1886 and established Camp Manufacturing Company in 1887. The original Franklin mill was steam powered and lay on a . . . — — Map (dbm51001) HM
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, suddenly the . . . — — Map (dbm18135) HM
George Camp, Jr. (1793-1879) acquired this land in 1826. Several of his children incorporated the Camp Manufacturing Company in 1887 to operate sawmills. The company expanded into a wood product manufacturing company and later a paper mill. . . . — — Map (dbm69463) HM
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 . . . — — Map (dbm18133) HM
Della I. Hayden, educator, was born into slavery in North Carolina and moved to Virginia with her mother after the Civil War. She attended a Freedmen's Bureau school and graduated from the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (later Hampton . . . — — Map (dbm224321) HM
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 . . . — — Map (dbm18144) HM
Dedicated to those who gave their lives in defense of our state and our nation Originally a part of the James L. Camp homeplace, the park was given to the town of Franklin in 1946 by the children of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Camp. Rena . . . — — Map (dbm125377) WM
9 ► Virginia, Franklin — Lyons State Theatre — 229 South Main Street — Franklin Historic District —
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior circa 1937 — — Map (dbm166008) HM
Pauline C. Morton, civic leader, graduated from what is now Virginia State University in 1933. She began working for the Virginia Department of Education in 1947, during the segregation era. Before retiring in 1974, she supervised home economics . . . — — Map (dbm118319) HM
Franklin's location at the junction of a railroad and important water route offered opportunities that attracted new people, so the town rapidly recovered from the War. In 1866 the Albemarle steam Navigation Company was reorganized and the . . . — — Map (dbm52133) HM
Between 1907 and 1930 Franklin witnessed arevolution in transportation as gasoline-poweredvehicles replaced the horse and buggy and steam-powered transportation. Even as Franklin benefited from a boom in buggy making duringthe first . . . — — Map (dbm51062) HM
The conjunction of the Portsmouth &Roanoke Railroad and the Blackwater Riverin 1835 made this site, then a swampywilderness, a natural link between the towns of the Chowan and Albemarle Soundand points to the northeast. The . . . — — Map (dbm51216) HM
In 1847 one of Franklin's most influentialcouples, Richard and Mary Rebecca Murfee Barrett, married and received a 260 acre farm from Mary's father, Simon. The couple built ahouse near the center of the new settlementand began . . . — — Map (dbm50456) HM
15 ► Virginia, Franklin — The Blackwater Line — “That little stream has … saved us” —
To protect Richmond from a Union attack from Suffolk, Confederate authorities fortified the Blackwater River in 1862. You are standing on the Blackwater Line. The intermittent earthworks stretched fifty miles from north of Zuni to the North . . . — — Map (dbm18134) HM
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.In honor of the many individuals and organizations giving freely of their time, talents, and resources to assist in the response and recovery from . . . — — Map (dbm166007) HM
During the first three years of the War Between the States, the Franklin railhead was the terminus of the Blackwater - Chowan corridor. The Confederate commissary used this route to deliver the millions of pounds of goods from eastern North Carolina . . . — — Map (dbm18146) HM
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