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2 unusual facts about Franklin, North Carolina


Cornelia, Georgia

The Tallulah Falls Railway, as it came to be called, carried passengers, freight, and mail from Cornelia to Franklin, North Carolina.

Mandie

Mandie is soon reunited with her birth mother, Elizabeth, in Macon County, North Carolina in a town called Franklin, North Carolina and learns the truth about her history.


Ali Baba's Tahini

The following year, the original lineup of the band (Engelmann/Cinninger/Krojniewski) reunited in the North Carolina mountains to record the album Rockstars and Lawnmowers.

Anthony Foriest

In March 2012, Foriest filed to run in the newly redrawn North Carolina's 6th congressional district, held by Republican U.S. Congressman Howard Coble.

Ardmore, New Zealand

The suburb is in the Franklin ward, one of the thirteen administrative divisions of Auckland City, and is under local governance of the Auckland Council.

Benjamin Ide Wheeler

On removing in 1868 to Franklin, New Hampshire, he entered the Franklin Academy, and after six months there, went to the New London Academy, subsequently Colby–Sawyer College.

Blachly, Oregon

Before the Blachly post office was established in 1892, area residents received their mail at the now-closed Franklin post office.

Brantly International

Later that year, the Franklin Capital Corp, headed by F. Lee Bailey who also owned Enstrom Helicopter Corporation at that time, purchased the company.

Carolina heelsplitter

Historically the Carolina heelsplitter was known to be found in the Catawba River and Pee Dee River systems in North Carolina, and the Pee Dee and Savannah River systems of South Carolina.

Crawford County, Missouri

Although he withdrew from the race, former U.S. Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina) still received 2.61 percent of the vote in Crawford County.

Dinwiddie County Pullman Car

It appeared in the 1976 television movie Eleanor and Franklin as the funeral car for Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Erick Baker

He ended the year performing at the official Belk Bowl FanFest in Charlotte, North Carolina, along with McCain and the rock band Daughtry, as well as at a New Year's Eve show for the U.S. troops stationed at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four

Nationally broadcast on Independent Lens on PBS, it tells the story of The Greensboro Four, four young college freshman, Joe McNeil, David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Ezell Blair Jr. now Jibreel Khazan, who staged a sit-in at Woolworth's in 1960 to protest segregation practices.

Franklin County, Missouri

Although he withdrew from the race, former U.S. Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina) still received 2.96 percent of the vote in Franklin County.

Franklin Electronic Publishers

Franklin collaborated with Bien Logic to create educational titles for the Bookman platform.

Franklin Khan

Franklin Khan is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and former Member of Parliament for Ortoire-Mayaro and Chairman of the ruling People's National Movement.

Franklin Tenorio

Franklin Bolívar Tenorio Ramón (born June 30, 1969 in Salcedo, Cotopaxi) is an Ecuadorian long-distance and marathon runner.

Franklin Toker

Franklin Toker is a professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of eight books on the history of art and architecture, ranging from the excavations he conducted under Santa Reparata, Florence to 21st century American Urbanism.

Gail McDonald

McDonald and her husband moved to North Carolina in 2004, and she took a position with the state Ports Authority.

Harry Deal and the Galaxies

Harry Deal and the Galaxies is a rock and roll band formed in Taylorsville, North Carolina, United States, in 1959.

Henry Franklin

In addition, Franklin has played and recorded with Gene Harris & the Three Sounds, Hampton Hawes, Freddie Hubbard, Bobbi Humphrey, Willie Bobo, Archie Shepp, O.C. Smith, Count Basie, Stevie Wonder and Al Jarreau.

Jane P. Gray

Jane P. Gray is a North Carolina judge and candidate for the North Carolina Court of Appeals in the 2010 election.

Jeffrey Roy

In 2010, he was elected as the Chairman of the Franklin Democratic Town Committee, co-chaired Franklin’s Anti-Bullying Task Force, served as a member of Franklin’s Horace Mann School Building Committee, and was the chairman of the Board of Directors for the non-profit Masque Theatre Co., Inc. in Milford, Massachusetts.

Jennifer Loven

A Matthews, North Carolina native, Loven graduated from East Mecklinburg High School and then attended University of Virginia and Northwestern University, where she was graduated from the Medill School of Journalism.

John Haymaker

Haymaker and his family, who were of German descent, moved west from Pittsburgh to Franklin Township in the Connecticut Western Reserve on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in early November 1805, shortly after Ohio had become a state.

Jonathan Greenleaf Eveleth

Bissell continued to considerably expand his and the New York investors' land in the Titusville region, in Franklin and Petroleum Center, PA.

Lady Franklin's Revenge

Lady Franklin's Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession and the Remaking of Arctic History is a non-fiction book by Canadian historian and writer Ken McGoogan.

Lincoln Verduga Loor

His public life was when he and his brothers Wilson and Franklin, and the management of Medardo Mora, contributed to the creation of the Lay University Eloy Alfaro of Manabi, and with Dr. Ruben Dario Morales, managed the extension of the Lay University Vicente Rocafuerte in Portoviejo, which later became the San Gregorio University of Portoviejo.

Mabel Hampton

Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on May 2, 1902, Hampton was only two months old when her mother died.

Miles Plumlee

Plumlee attended high school at Christ School in Arden, North Carolina, where he led the school to a 63–6 record as a junior and senior.

Mini-Tuesday

The Democratic primaries and caucuses were contested between retired General Wesley Clark of Arkansas, former Governor Howard Dean of Vermont, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, and the Reverend Al Sharpton of New York.

Myrick Davies

He served as the 13th Governor of Georgia from 1780 to 1781, after Stephen Heard moved to North Carolina.

Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority

Outside of Davidson County, MTA collaborates with the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) to provide express service to Brentwood, Franklin, Gallatin, Hendersonville, Lavergne, Smyrna, Murfreesboro, Spring Hill, Joelton and Springfield.

Never Picture Perfect

Recorded = 1989
OmniSound Recording Studio
(Nashville, Tennessee)
Big Dog Studio
(Wichita, Kansas)
The Pond
(Franklin, Tennessee

Newport River

The Newport River is a small river in North Carolina that runs approximately twenty kilometers southeast through the town of Newport with its mouth opening into Bogue Sound, between Morehead City and Beaufort.

North Carolina Superior Court

The first three judges elected by the North Carolina General Assembly were Samuel Ashe of New Hanover County, Samuel Spencer of Anson County, and future U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Iredell of Chowan County.

North Carolina's 5th congressional district

North Carolina's 5th congressional district covers the northwestern corner of North Carolina from the Appalachian Mountains to the Piedmont Triad.

Peroxwhy?gen

gen (pronounced peroxygen) are a two-piece American rock band based in North Carolina and formed by professional wrestlers Jeff Hardy and Shannon Moore.

Pleasant View Farm

Pleasant View Farm containing Samuel F. Glass House, Franklin, Tennessee, with a Mississippian culture archeological site

Richard N. Hackett

He was unsuccessful in a run for the U.S. Congress in 1896, but won a seat ten years later representing North Carolina's 8th congressional district in the 60th United States Congress (defeating incumbent Republican E. Spencer Blackburn).

Richard Tufts

Born in Medford, Massachusetts, he was a grandson of James Walker Tufts, the founder of Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina, which was long America's preeminent golf resort.

Roadgames

While making, Patrick, Richard Franklin gave Everett De Roche a copy of Rear Window as an example of how he wanted the script typed.

Ronald J. Rabin

Ronald Joseph Rabin (born May 16, 1932) is a Republican state senator in the state of North Carolina, representing the 12th district, encompassing Harnett, Johnston, Lee Counties.

Saffron Sky

"This lyrical memoir evinces the author's passion for constructing an American life with the spiritual fervor and deeply aesthetic rituals that were part of her childhood in Iran. Asayesh, who immigrated to North Carolina as a girl, writes too of her struggle to arrive at an acceptable sexuality in the face of parental panic, and tells of her frustration, during later trips to post-Shah Iran, with "the sisters," the Ayatollah's ubiquitous enforcers of female modesty."

Saga 106.6 FM

These included John Peters, who launched Radio Trent (the East Midlands' first commercial radio station in 1975), Amanda Bowman, Tony Lyman, Tim Gough, Steve Merike, Paul Robey, Jeff Cooper, Andy Marriott, Ian Chilvers, Mark Burrows, Ron Coles, Steve Orchard, Tim Rogers, David Lloyd, Ashley Franklin, Peter Quinn, Sheila Tracy, 'Diddy' David Hamilton, Mike Wyer and Erica Hughes.

Smoke on the Mountain

The setting is in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina Baptist church in 1938 and it revolves around the Sanders family.

Spruce Pine

Spruce Pine, Alabama, a census-designated place in Franklin County, Alabama, United States

Still Live after All These Years

Still Live after All These Years is a live album from North Carolina music group, Nantucket, recorded November 29, 1991 with all six original band members at a night club called The Longbranch in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Su-Lin Young

Young returned to the United States in the 1950s living in Virginia, California, and North Carolina.

Vaughan Johnson

Vaughan Monroe Johnson (born March 24, 1962 in Morehead City, North Carolina) is a retired American football linebacker.

WSMH

This began airing on April 24 from WNEM's studios on North Franklin Street in Downtown Saginaw.

Yatri

It was invented by Benjamin Franklin in the 18th century and recreated for Yatri by the late Gerhard Finkenbeiner, a master glass blower in Waltham Massachusetts from Franklin’s original sketches.


see also

WLTM

WPFJ, a radio station (1480 AM) licensed to Franklin, North Carolina, United States, which held the call sign WLTM until June 1987

WNCC

WNCC-FM, a radio station (96.7 FM) licensed to Franklin, North Carolina, United States