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Booker T. Washington His
birthplace, on the former Burroughs plantation in the Hale's Ford area.
Photographed Aug 2003, and Contributed by Gill Pollard |
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Booker T Washington Another view.
He was born on April 5, 1856 in a log kitchen on the
tobacco farm of James Burroughs.
Photographed Feb 2009 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh |
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Booker T. Washington Gravestone
Photographed Feb 2010 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh |
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The Franklin Chronicle
Building Three story building on Main Street in Rocky
Mount, it was once called the Early House (Jubal Early). It was the newspaper office for
the "Franklin Chronicle", the building burned in 1944.
Contributed by Donna Wilkes |
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Franklin County High School Rocky Mount, VA, 1930's picture, before all the additions. Ned Armstrong reports
that this should be titled, Rocky Mount High School, ... and that Franklin County High
School was built much later.
Contributed by Donna Wilkes |
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Homeplace of Ed Pascal Brown Scruggs, VA. Torn down and replaced with a golfcourse.
Contributed by Donna Wilkes |
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Hale's Ford Covered Bridge Today
Smith Mountain Lake,VA.
The bridge connects Franklin and Bedford counties
Contributed by Donna Wilkes |
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Franklin County Courthouse Early
1900's Franklin County Courthouse, Main Street, Rocky Mount, VA
Contributed by Donna Wilkes |
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Rocky Mount Hotel Burned in the
60's.
Contributed by Donna Wilkes |
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Main Street, Rocky Mount, VA Before the streets were paved.
Contributed by Donna Wilkes |
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Downtown Rocky Mount, VA Ed P.
Brown and son Gardo Brown
purchasing War Bonds.
Contributed by Donna Wilkes |
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N&W Station Near Boones Mill
Photographed 8/30/2003 and Contributed by Gill Pollard |