Mount Carmel/Duplex

Historical marker location:

2300 Lewisburg Pike, Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker is on Lewisburg Pike (U.S. 431) north of Bethesda-Duplex Road, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1998

The Great Train Robbery of 1866, one of the most famous train robberies in American history, took place in Tennessee. A group of Confederate veterans stole $90,000 from a train traveling from Nashville to Chattanooga.