Franklin Tennessee

Franklin, Tennessee is gaining more popularity than it did in its earliest days. Franklin, Tennessee, the tenth biggest city in Tennessee, is evolving with business and economy and real estate, as well as with efforts to preserve historic worth on famed sites in the city.

The month was November; the day was the thirtieth; and the year was 1864. It was four in the afternoon. The Civil War was in full boom, and what was to be the final stroke to the Independence of the Southern Confederacy occurred at Franklin, Tennessee according to 1st Tennessee Infantryman, Sam Watkins. Also according to Watkins and others, it was "the bloodiest conflict of modern times…in any war." The conflict, lasting merely five hours, was also fought on one of the smallest plots of land, a segment that was no more than two miles long and a mile and a half wide.

That land now holds some of the oldest of structures, historically relevant and in remembrance: in the city of Franklin, Tennessee, for instance, rests the past war hospital used through the battle of Franklin, Carnton Plantation, complete with burial ground. As well there is Andrew Jackson's home, The Hermitage, and such infamous sites as the Belmont Mansion, occupied in summers at the time of the war by one Adelicia Acklen, the ballsy belle who through the war had the smarts and the bravada to consult with Union and Confederate ranks, so she could get her cotton bales shipped on time (this feat-getting 2,800 bales successfully through, yielded Acklen $960,000).

Other real estate is almost as sought after or revered. In the Franklin and surrounding cities, towns, and counties, homes are obtainable from under 150,000 to over a half a million dollars. And the homes are expansive, spacious, manicured and maintained-be they older homes…such as the established Rebel Meadows mansion with the current amenities and fittings, or custom-built homes…such as the 4-bedroom Colonial with the desirable two fireplace and four- closet features or the condo-living styled home in Prescott Place at Fieldstone Farms with the three bedrooms and modern loft and vast back yard.

With inhabitants of less than 50,000 in 2004, with such significant crime statistics as nil murders in 2003, 2002, and 2001, and with good employment opportunities in industries from education to manufacturing to finance to science to real estate, Franklin, Tennessee (and its proponents) offers an ideal location to live.