Battle Ground Academy

Battle Ground Academy is a Tennessee historical marker in in Franklin, Williamson County.

Williamson Co, TN 6 (US 31), in Franklin

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Founded in 1889 as Battle Ground Academy, named for its location where the Battle of Franklin occurred in 1864, and dedicated in an address by Confederate General William B. Bate, later governor and U.S. Senator, this boys' preparatory school was located on Columbia Avenue across from the Carter House. The school was popularly called the Wall and Mooney School and the Peoples School for its early headmasters. After being destroyed by fire in 1902, it was moved to its present site.

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Historical maps covering this location

1844 · Kentucky (H. S. Tanner, 1844) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Battlefield in front of Franklin, Tenn. (Office of the Chief of Engineers, 1874) (Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division)
1909 · Franklin, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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