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Franklin Historic District is a national historic district located at Franklin, Virginia. The district includes 226 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the city of Franklin. It includes residential and commercial buildings that were primarily built during the late 19th- and early 20th-century.
In the 1810s, Garland was president of the Board of Trustees of the New Glasgow Female Academy, [8] and served the board for many years. [2] [9] In 1824 and 1825 he was a director of the Lynchburg branch of the Bank of Virginia. [10] [11] In the 1820s, he served as Commissioner of the Kanawah road and river. [12]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Edgewood, also known as Higginbotham House, is a historic home located at 138 Garland Avenue in Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia. It was built in 1818, by Arthur B. Davies a local attorney and Amherst County Court Clerk. It is a two-story, seven-bay, T-plan brick dwelling in the Greek Revival style.
Judy Garland (1922–1969), American jazz and Hollywood musicals singer and actress, [173] [174] [175] French Huguenot ancestry on her father's side. [ 176 ] [ 177 ] [ 178 ] David Garrick (1717–1779), English theatre actor and playwright, descendant of David de la Garrique from near Saintonge.
Franklin High School is home to the 2004 and 2008 VHSL Division 1A State Football Champions. Franklin City Schools is home to FIRST Robotics Competition Team 1610 who were winners of the FIRST Robotics NASA/VCU regional robotics competition in 2006 and the FIRST Robotics Virginia regional competition in 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Playing under managers Claude Weaver, Glenn Titus, James Meyer, Garland Braxton and Walter Wholey, the Robins finished the regular season 31.5 games behind the first place Franklin Kildees in the regular season standings, missing the playoffs. Lawrenceville folded following the season, after finishing last in the league in home attendance.
June 3, 1969: Destroyer USS Frank Evans sliced in two by Australian carrier, 74 seamen killed June 20, 1969: Pompidou electeds new French President June 12, 1969: Niagara Falls "turned off" for five months on American Falls side June 22, 1969: Judy Garland dies of drug overdose. The following events occurred in June 1969: