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24 unusual facts about Franklin County


Billy Wolfe

Eight months later, Hoff named Wolfe as administrator and was approved by Franklin County Judge William Bryant.

Brookville Lake Dam

Brookville Lake Dam (National ID # IN03017) is a dam in Brookville Township, Franklin County, Indiana, just north of Brookville, in the southeastern part of the state.

Flavius Josephus Carpenter

Flavius Josephus Carpenter, born March 24, 1851 in Franklin County, Georgia, died August 2, 1933, at home in Arkadelphia, Clark County, Arkansas, was an American Civil War veteran, steamboat captain, U.S. Marshal, and entrepreneurial businessman.

Franklin County, Florida

The extreme eastern tip of the county is bordered by the Ochlockonee River.

Franklin County, Indiana

James B. Goudie Jr. Speaker of the Indiana House was from Franklin County.

Governors James B. Ray, Noah Noble and David Wallace were known as the "Brookville Triumvirate," in that they all had lived in Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana and served consecutive terms in the office of Governor of Indiana.

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.

The Confederate General Sterling Price led his troops in ransacking the area during the war.

Franklin County, Ohio

The county was established on April 30, 1803, less than two months after Ohio became a state, and was named after Benjamin Franklin.

Franklin County, Tennessee

There were few violent disturbances compared to many localities, but it was not until the mid-1960s, a decade after the historic Brown v. Board of Education court decision, that the county's schools were desegregated.

Two notable figures who were born in the county early in the twentieth century were singer/entertainer Dinah Shore and entrepreneur/philanthropist John Templeton.

Dinah Shore (1916–1994), singer, actress, and television celebrity

Franklin County, Texas

Winnsboro ISD (mostly in Wood County, small portion in Hopkins County)

Illinois Route 184

Route 184 begins at an intersection with Route 149 in Six Mile Township north of Royalton.

It meets County Route 14 before insersecting County Route 30 at the border of Tyrone Township.

Isaac Murphy

From 1837 to 1838, Murphy ran the original government land lines for Franklin County, Arkansas.

Kansas Democratic caucuses, 2008

Clinton only carried three counties in the state - Franklin, Linn and Miami (both Miami and Linn are situated along the state's border with Missouri where Clinton did far better).

Moses Roper

It also appears that he met only middling success as a lecturer and that for several years before his death, Moses Roper wandered through New England working at whatever he could find; he was working as a field hand on the farm of James T. Skillings in Franklin County, Maine near the town of Strong when "his strength gave out" in April 1891.

Reuben Sanford

Reuben Sanford (December 3, 1780 Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut - May 19, 1855 Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio) was an American politician from New York.

Robert E. Leach

In 1954, Leach won a two year short term on the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, and was re-elected to two six year full terms, serving until 1968.

Thomas J. Moyer

From 1979 to 1987, Moyer served on the Tenth District Court of Appeals for Ohio, which covers Franklin County.

USS Carrabasset

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Carrabasset, in honor of the Carrabassett River, a stream in Franklin County and Somerset Counties, Maine.

Whitewater Memorial State Park

Four counties gave up part of their land so that the state of Indiana could create the memorial park: Fayette, Franklin, Union and Wayne.

William Axton Stokes

Stokes later served as a major in the U.S. Infantry during the American Civil War, including a period in 1861 commanding at the 18th U.S. Infantry Headquarters, Camp Thomas, Franklin County, Ohio.


Alexander Boarman

Boarman kept this position until he died in 1916, while he was visiting in Loon Lake in Franklin County in northern New York.

Bloom Brothers Department Stores

Bloom Brothers Department Stores were located at sites in Franklin and Fulton counties, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland, from the company's founding in 1897 as the Old Reliable Conn and Bloom Dry Goods Store until the closing of the Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, store in March 1944.

Cop Block

In July 2010, Pete Eyre and Adam "Ademo Freeman" Mueller, members of the organization were arrested for videotaping officials at the Franklin County, Massachusetts jail.

Gerald Stebelton

After working as an aeronautical engineer and contracting officer for Battelle Memorial Institute, leading negotiating teams in Iran and Germany in the 1960s and '70's, Stebelton earned a law degree and became an assistant prosecuting attorney in Franklin County.

Harrison E. Havens

He was born in Franklin County, Ohio and was the Republican Party Representative from Missouri for the 4th District in the 42nd United States Congress between 1871 and 1873, and for the 6th District in the 43rd United States Congress from 1873 to 1875.

Les Whitt

Survivors included his wife of thirty-four years, Lee Ann Whitt, the educational curator of the zoo who is originally from Meadville in Franklin County in southwestern Mississippi; two daughters, Sarah Mathews, later Sarah Salley, and Hanna Lee Whitt, all of Alexandria, and two brothers, James M. Whitt of Natchez and John V. Whitt, Jr., of Dauphin Island, Alabama.

New York State Route 37

Upon crossing into Franklin County and the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation a short distance to the east, the road narrows back to a two-lane undivided highway and crosses over the Raquette River.

New York State Route 99

The route headed eastward as the Port Kent–Hopkinton Turnpike, passing through the small community of Duane Center before entering an isolated, wooded area of Franklin County and Adirondack Park.

Saint Regis Canoe Area

The Saint Regis Canoe Area is a 19,000 acre (76 km²) area of the Adirondack Park in southern Franklin County, New York about 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Tupper Lake and southwest of Paul Smiths.

Taylor Pond Wild Forest

The tract covers portions of 13 towns in three counties in the region around Taylor Pond, Silver Lake and Union Falls flow, in the town of Franklin in Franklin County and the town of Black Brook in Clinton County.

United States presidential election in New York, 1928

In 1928, Smith came within 2 points of winning the state by sweeping all 5 boroughs of heavily populated New York City, winning the state capital of Albany and Albany County along with neighboring Rensselaer County, and winning two counties in northern New York along the Saint Lawrence River, Clinton County and Franklin County.