SC-29-8 Franklin Academy

Marker text: FRANKLIN ACADEMY

Organized in 1825, was the most widely-known of the four schools that occupied this site. Henry Connelly was its first principal. J. Marion Sims who later achieved world fame as a surgeon was one of its pupils. The building of brick was said by Robert Mills to be a fine structure, two stories high.

Erected by Waxhaws Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1967