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Franklin County, Texas

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1875formed

10,359pop. 2020

14cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1980. Most listings are in or near Mount Vernon, Mt. Vernon.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Texas is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Franklin titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Edwards, M.L. & Co. Building	Mt. Vernon	Building	2018
Franklin County Courthouse and Jail	Mount Vernon	Building	2006
Mount Vernon Downtown Historic District	Mount Vernon	District	2018
Rogers-Drummond House	Mount Vernon	Building	1980

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 1875 (1875-03-13) from Titus.

FRANKLIN created from TITUS. Act passed 8 Mar 1875; took effect 13 Mar 1875.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Franklin County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
5,280	8,674	9,304	8,378	6,257	5,101	6,893	9,458	10,359

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

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

Cemeteries — 14 of 14 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bethel Cemetery	33.01651	-95.188
Clearwater Cemetery	32.98651	-95.21022
Colliers Chapel Cemetery	33.3165	-95.26411
Fuquay Cemetery	33.12901	-95.14883
Grayrock Cemetery	33.15901	-95.12688
Hagansport Cemetery	33.34095	-95.23161
Keith Cemetery	33.34206	-95.28161
Liberty Cemetery	33.08567	-95.25217
Murphy Cemetery	33.324	-95.18439
Pleasant Hill Cemetery	33.09651	-95.29272
Prairie Academy Cemetery	33.3486	-95.14203
Rock Hill Cemetery	33.0829	-95.15161
Snodgrass Cemetery	33.05789	-95.23278
Wims Cemetery	33.36789	-95.16522

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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