DetailsHaunted Franklin, TN: The Battle of Franklin Ghost Walk
6 stops · 2.5 hr · 34 mi
Price: $4.99
Five hours of the bloodiest ground in Tennessee, walked in the order it happened. On November 30, 1864, the Battle of Franklin killed or wounded roughly 10,000 men in five hours, and the town had nowhere to put them but its own parlors. This route starts at the hall Andrew Jackson used to negotiate the Chickasaw removal, follows Columbia Avenue down to the two houses that sat in the middle of the fighting, and ends at the plantation where four dead Confederate generals were laid out on the back porch and 1,500 men are still buried in the side yard. Every house on it is a working museum you can walk into. Every claim is sourced, and the legends are labeled as legends.
What you get
- 6 stops, led by haunted places.
- The Lotz House, the Carter House and Carnton, the houses at the center of the Battle of Franklin and its aftermath.
- The researched story behind every stop, read in the stop sheet. The legends are labeled as legends.
- The real address of every stop once unlocked. It prints on the stop's card and on the List screen.
- Tour Mode. Nav hands each stop to your own maps app, one at a time.
The stops
- 01
Franklin Masonic Hall
Haunted
Address unlocked with purchase of map - 02
Gallery 202 (Clouston Hall)
Haunted
- 03
Lotz House
Haunted
Address unlocked with purchase of map - 04
Carter House
Haunted
Address unlocked with purchase of map - 05
Carnton
Haunted
Address unlocked with purchase of map - 06
The Athenaeum Rectory
Haunted
Address unlocked with purchase of map
How a self-guided tour works
- Open the guide. The stop carousel starts in Browse mode, so swipe the stops or tap a pin. If you refresh mid-tour, Tour Mode picks up where you left off.
- Tap Start Tour. On a guide you own, the cards switch to Tour Mode and each card carries Info and Nav. Info opens the stop's story.
- Tap Nav. Your own maps app takes over: Apple Maps on iPhone, your maps app on Android, Google Maps on desktop. One stop at a time, with no in-app turn-by-turn, route or arrival time.
- Move on. A stop counts as visited once you tap Nav on it and then move past it. On the last stop the button reads Completed Tour, which ends Tour Mode and returns you to Guides.
Who it is for
Civil War readers and ghost story fans spending a day in Franklin. The route follows the Battle of Franklin of November 30, 1864, from the Franklin Masonic Hall and Gallery 202 downtown to the Lotz House, the Carter House and Carnton, then south to the Athenaeum Rectory in Columbia.
You set the pace. The guide sets the route.
Who makes these guides
Aleks Drogobetski
Aleks Drogobetski runs Velvet Ropes and is the first-named inventor on US patent 9,430,498, a method for generating a digital celebrity map tour guide. Every new address on Velvet Ropes is checked against county property records before it publishes, with deed filings and permit history when those records are unclear.
Questions
What happens after I buy?
The guide is yours. Every stop's address unlocks on its card and on the List screen, and Start Tour takes the place of the Unlock button.
Do I have to go in order?
No, but the route follows the battle in the order it happened, so it reads best from the first stop.
What if I can't finish in one visit?
Nothing expires. You own the guide, so come back next week or next year.
Is there a live guide?
No. This is a self-guided tour. Your phone carries the stories and your own maps app gives the directions.
What if I want a refund?
The refund terms are at the foot of this page, below the price.
Price and refund
One purchase, $4.99, yours forever. Every address unlocks at once and nothing expires. If the guide is not what you expected, the return policy below explains what we can do.
Refunds: see our return policy.