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Franklin County, Mississippi

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5historic places

—earliest paper

1809formed

7,675pop. 2020

146cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1981. Most listings are in or near McCall Creek, Roxie, Eddiceton.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Beam, Charles Walton, House	McCall Creek	Building	1990
Clear Springs Recreation Area	Roxie	Site	1999
Eddiceton Bridge	Eddiceton	Structure	1988
Franklin County Courthouse	Meadville	Building	1981
Lucien Bridge	McCall Creek	Structure	2005

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Franklin was formed in 1809 (1809-12-21) from Adams, Amite, Wilkinson.

FRANKLIN created by Mississippi Territory from ADAMS, AMITE, and WILKINSON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Franklin County population from 1810 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1810	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,016	3,821	4,775	8,265	9,729	13,678	14,156	12,504	10,929	9,286	8,208	8,448	7,675

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

146 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 146 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Aldridge Cemetery	31.43822	-91.0376
Anderson Cemetery	31.42239	-91.10038
Bartlett Ford Cemetery	None	None
Beach Family Cemetery	31.48134	-91.15172
Beam Cemetery	31.42128	-90.68204
Bedford Cemetery	31.51572	-90.92787
Beech Grove Cemetery	31.53103	-91.00911
Beulah Cemetery	31.3635	-90.80204
Beulah Cemetery	None	None
Bleecker Cemetery	31.44674	-90.92433
Bockles Cemetery	31.50323	-90.67856
Bowlin Cemetery	31.42211	-90.67871
Brown Cemetery	31.4889	-90.91582
Buie Cemetery	None	None
Bunkley Cemetery	31.35989	-90.98899
Butler Cemetery	31.37261	-91.02697
Byrd Cemetery	31.47378	-90.75794
Byrd Cemetery	31.52461	-90.97093
Byrds Chapel Cemetery	31.41544	-90.78817
Cain Cemetery	31.38128	-90.6926
Cameron Cemetery	31.47709	-90.94779
Campbell Cemetery	31.46842	-90.9256
Cassedy Cemetery	31.43461	-90.8601
Center Point Cemetery	31.42725	-90.63333
Clay Cemetery	None	None
Concord Cemetery	31.42711	-90.66565
Cool Springs Cemetery	31.60211	-90.8351
Cotton Cemetery	31.40906	-90.71982
Cotton Cemetery	None	None
Damascus Cemetery	31.59516	-90.67509
Darsey Cemetery	None	None
Davis Cemetery	31.39959	-90.68071
Davis Cemetery	None	None
Dorsey Cemetery	31.486	-91.0451
Doug Seale Cemetery	None	None
Dupree Cemetery	31.52711	-91.04649
Ebenezer Cemetery	31.42387	-90.7018
Eddicetown Cemetery	31.50644	-90.7916
Flowers Cemetery	None	None
Ford Cemetery	31.45378	-91.00093
Ford Cemetery	None	None
Freeman Cemetery	31.36683	-90.86537
Freewoods Cemetery	31.34322	-91.07593
Friendship Cemetery	31.58349	-91.10982
Fulton Cemetery	31.55403	-91.09156
Greendale Cemetery	31.60322	-90.98621
Griffin Cemetery	31.536	-90.86648
Griffing Cemetery	None	None
Guice Cemetery	31.58461	-91.10482
Hamburg Cemetery	31.57336	-91.06286
Hammack Cemetery	31.36267	-91.01454
Hegan Cemetery	31.48025	-90.94927
Hemby Cemetery	None	None
Henry Seale Cemetery	None	None
Herring Cemetery	31.54766	-90.76509
Hickory Grove Cemetery	31.57238	-91.15454
Holly Cemetery	31.60433	-91.00093
Hopewell Cemetery	31.46866	-90.83448
Jones Cemetery	None	None
Kell Cemetery	None	None
King Cemetery	31.53933	-91.03899
Knoxville Cemetery	31.37711	-91.11677
Lee Cemetery	31.48594	-90.78204
Legett Cemetery	31.50072	-90.88787
Lehmann Cemetery	None	None
Lucien Cemetery	31.51659	-90.6599
Lumpkin Cemetery	31.35353	-90.69058
Magee Cemetery	31.52746	-90.85483
Matthews Cemetery	None	None
McCall Cemetery	31.47322	-90.68621
McDanial Cemetery	31.5735	-90.79315
McDonald Cemetery	31.48901	-90.77123
McGee Burnett Cemetery	31.47873	-90.77546
McGehee Cemetery	31.49044	-90.69648
McMillan Cemetery	31.43973	-91.10257
Meadville Cemetery	31.47302	-90.89859
Middleton Cemetery	31.42516	-91.03621
Middleton Creek Cemetery	31.38157	-90.82339
Midway Cemetery	31.47008	-90.87588
Mock Cemetery	31.54227	-91.13768

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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