A postcard of Battle Ground Academy and Gymnasium, circa 1909. Established in 1889, the school was named for its original location on the battle ground of the Civil War Battle of Franklin. The first campus was erected at the corner of Columbia...
A photograph of firemen fighting the flames at the O’Leary home in the Fieldstone Farms neighborhood of Franklin during the May 2010 flood. The electrical fire was caused by the flood and completely destroyed the home.
Forms part of the...
A photograph of a fireman facing the fire at the O’Leary home in the Fieldstone Farms neighborhood of Franklin during the May 2010 flood. The electrical fire was caused by the flood and completely destroyed the home.
Forms part of the Nashville...
A protection order granted to William Harrison, Jr., of Williamson County, Tennessee, by Head-Quarters District of Nashville, Provost Marshal's Office on April 25, 1864. The document cites protection granted for "farm, timber, forage, stock,...
A photograph of fire fighters standing by the ruins of the O’Leary home in the Fieldstone Farms neighborhood of Franklin after the May 2010 flood. The electrical fire was caused by the flood and completely destroyed the home.
Forms part of the...
A photograph of the O’Leary’s home in the Fieldstone Farms neighborhood of Franklin after the May 2010 flood. The electrical fire was caused by the flood and completely destroyed the home.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital...
A photograph of musician Carol Warren’s damaged guitar cases after her home in Franklin was flooded during the May 2010 flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of John and Nancy O’Leary’s home in the Fieldstone Farms neighborhood of Franklin after the May 2010 flood. The electrical fire was caused by the flood and completely destroyed the home.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010...
A stock certificate of the antebellum period issued to William Harrison, Sr. certifying capital stock in the Franklin and Columbia Turnpike Company, as witnessed on Dec. 2, 1850. Historically, the turnpikes started with local ownership in the form...
A slave deed bill of sale from Williamson County, Tennessee, for the transfer of a "girl slave named Mary" for the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, from Joshua Reams to William Harrison, Jr. dated Feb. 2, 1841. The verso of this document...
A slave bill of sale documenting the purchase of a "boy named Sephus aged about six years" by William Harrison, Jr., from Timothy [Terrell?] in Williamson County, Tennessee on Jan. 18, 1844. The warrant of title refers to the sum of two hundred...
A slave deed bill of sale for the acquisition of three slaves: "a woman named Betty about twenty one years of age, and her two children Louis-Randolph about four years of age, and William Henry about twelve months old." The document states that...
A slave deed bill of sale, witnessed on April 22, 1848, regarding the transfer of a slave from Robert Glass to William Harrison, Jr., of Williamson County, Tennessee. The document states that Glass sold to William Harrison, Jr. a "man called Sam...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with John and Nancy O’Leary, conducted on October 31, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. John and Nancy O’Leary’s Franklin home caught fire during the flood and...
A published photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about law enforcement destroying barrels of illegal whiskey, known as “moonshine,” or “white lightning” in Franklin County, Tennessee.
Franklin is one of Tennessee's southern tier of...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...
A postcard of the Oak Hill mansion, the grand 19th century residence of Mr. and Mrs. Van Leer Kirkman, located approximately seven miles south of Nashville on Franklin Pike in Davidson County, Tennessee. Oak Hill, which suggests a French chateau...
Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull, circa 1934 sitting in the back seat of an open car. Cordell Hull was born in Pickett County Tennessee. He became a lawyer and had an illustrious career in which he...
The Oak Hill “residence of Mr. and Mrs. Van Leer Kirkman, like many other homes on the Franklin Pike, is situated on a portion of the battle field of Nashville. Many relics of this conflict are here preserved. On the lovely lawn, immediately in...
Pictured: A big crowd welcoming the arrival of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and other dignitaries at the train station, in Nashville, Tennessee, for the funeral of Congressman Joseph Wellington “Jo” Byrns, Sr. in Nashville, Tennessee. Bryns...