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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
62historic places
—earliest paper
1811formed
71,029pop. 2020
95cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 62 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Greenfield, Leverett, Northfield.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Franklin County population from 1820 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1820
1840
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
29,268
28,812
31,434
36,001
41,209
49,361
49,453
52,747
54,864
64,317
71,535
71,029
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.
Cemeteries & historical places
USGS GNIS
95 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 80 of 95 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Aaron Clark Memorial Cemetery
42.58355
-72.54743
Arms Cemetery
42.61589
-72.73337
Ashfield Plain Cemetery
42.52935
-72.78879
Beaver Meadow Cemetery
42.71936
-72.61763
Boyden Cemetery
42.48328
-72.66673
Branch Cemetery
42.66708
-72.72271
Branch Cemetery
42.53372
-72.27411
Brick School Cemetery
42.66463
-72.66544
Brookside Cemetery
42.47139
-72.61056
Calvary Cemetery
42.57691
-72.61346
Center Cemetery
42.68183
-72.81561
Center Cemetery
42.50068
-72.33083
Chandler Hill Cemetery
42.66748
-72.6824
Chestnut Hill Cemetery
42.52282
-72.48217
Coller Cemetery
42.65634
-72.39311
Cricket Hill Cemetery
42.47833
-72.70098
Cristian Hill Cemetery
42.71577
-72.76428
Doane Cemetery
42.58408
-72.87316
Dry Hill Cemetery
42.55575
-72.46445
East Cemetery
42.70863
-72.8828
East Charlemont Cemetery
42.6198
-72.79349
East Deerfield Cemetery
42.55586
-72.56362
East Hill Cemetery
42.69347
-72.60151
East Whately Cemetery
42.4449
-72.59879
Elm Grove Cemetery
42.54189
-72.53617
Gardner Cemetery
42.50357
-72.4573
Gill Center Cemetery
42.64123
-72.49819
Green River Cemetery
42.58051
-72.60664
Hawks Cemetery
42.55486
-72.65783
Hawks Cemetery
42.63551
-72.90542
High Street Cemetery
42.60442
-72.5807
Highland Cemetery
42.57762
-72.50751
Hill Cemetery
42.59833
-72.68798
Hill Cemetery
42.52152
-72.79952
Holton Cemetery
42.57994
-72.46354
Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery
42.46402
-72.60983
Holy Name of Jesus Cemetery
42.47041
-72.60809
Howland Cemetery
42.51297
-72.69679
Jackson Hill Cemetery
42.50278
-72.50278
Jones Cemetery
42.61397
-72.64703
Laurel Hill Cemetery
42.54197
-72.59814
Leavitt Cemetery
42.61734
-72.83358
Locust Hill Cemetery
42.53947
-72.53609
Long Plain Cemetery
42.4509
-72.52499
Lower Meadows Cemetery
42.5946
-72.6196
Luther Henry Tomb Yard
42.45017
-72.42525
Maple Grove Cemetery
42.7191
-72.82187
Marvell Cemetery
42.50233
-72.50338
Mater Dolorosa Cemetery
42.57604
-72.61798
Mount Hope Cemetery
42.51095
-72.49005
Mountain View Cemetery
42.45673
-72.3442
Nelson Family Cemetery
42.6514
-72.952
North Cemetery
42.65121
-72.48187
North Cemetery
42.56351
-72.62496
North Cemetery
42.71153
-72.89805
North River Cemetery
42.6853
-72.69138
North Shirkshire Cemetery
42.56882
-72.72099
North Sunderland Cemetery
42.49761
-72.54962
Northfield Farms Cemetery
42.61249
-72.47348
Old Albany Cemetery
42.54514
-72.61008
Old Cemetery
42.68141
-72.54402
Old South Cemetery
42.52354
-72.53563
Our Lady of Czechowski Cemetery
42.58477
-72.54652
Pentecost Cemetery
42.70151
-72.45454
Perry Cemetery
42.63608
-72.26899
Pine Grove Cemetery
42.52288
-72.69015
Pine Nook Cemetery
42.5086
-72.56617
Plainview Cemetery
42.49724
-72.4762
Riverside Cemetery
42.46084
-72.58577
Riverside Cemetery
42.61614
-72.54267
Riverside Cemetery
42.61475
-72.54581
Saint Mary's Cemetery
42.6871
-72.44567
Saint Stanislaus Cemetery
42.47101
-72.60817
Shelburne Center Cemetery
42.58309
-72.69688
Skinner Cemetery
42.61084
-72.6693
South Cemetery
42.50922
-72.42077
South Cemetery
42.58208
-72.66969
South Cemetery
42.68304
-72.6313
South Cemetery
42.65457
-72.83116
South Mountain Road Cemetery
42.63749
-72.41587
Historical populated places — 4 of 4
Name
Lat
Lon
Factory Village
42.61675
-72.5537
Millington
42.47648
-72.29953
Prescott
42.39176
-72.34536
Smiths
42.32926
-72.32619
Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.
Historical markers
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