Donelson Caffery

Historical marker location:

407 Sterling Road, Franklin, Louisiana

( Marker is on Sterling Road (State Highway 322) west of Haifleigh Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1964

(1835-1906).

Louisiana was originally a French colony, named after King Louis XIV of France. The area was first explored by the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, in 1682.