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'''Franklin''' is an [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] located in [[Holmes County, Mississippi|Holmes County]], [[Mississippi]]. Franklin is located on [[Mississippi Highway 17]] and is approximately {{convert|7|mi|km}} south of [[Lexington, Mississippi|Lexington]] and approximately {{convert|12|mi|km}} north of [[Pickens, Mississippi|Pickens]].
'''Franklin''' is an [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] located in [[Holmes County, Mississippi|Holmes County]], [[Mississippi]].<ref name=GNIS1/> [[Mississippi Highway 17]] passes through Franklin, which is approximately {{convert|7|mi|km}} south of [[Lexington, Mississippi|Lexington]], the county seat, and approximately {{convert|12|mi|km}} north of the town of [[Pickens, Mississippi|Pickens]].

This was long an area of cotton plantations. In the antebellum era, labor was provided by thousands of enslaved African Americans. After the war, many [[freedmen]] continued to work the land as [[sharecroppers]] and [[tenant farmers]].


==History==
==History==

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In 1900, Franklin had a population of 80. The settlement had a post office in the early 1900s.<ref name="Rowland">{{cite book | last = Rowland | first = Dunbar | title = Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form | publisher = Southern Historical Publishing Association | year = 1907 | url = https://archive.org/details/mississippicomp01rowlgoog | volume = 1 | page = 742}}</ref>
Franklin was an early place of European-American settlement and developing cotton plantations from the 1830s, when most of the [[Choctaw people]] were [[Indian Removal|removed]] to [[Indian Territory]] west of the Mississippi River. The American migrants were mostly from planter families in South Carolina and Virginia, and brought numerous slaves with them. Others they bought through the domestic slave trade to develop their extensive lands for cotton plantations.

Located a short distance east of the settlement is the Franklin Church and Cemetery.<ref name=GNIS2>{{cite gnis|670161|Franklin Church}}</ref> Erected in 1841 from labor by enslaved African Americans, the church had two front entrances, one for men and one for women.<ref name="PHMA">{{cite web | title = Pictorial History: Mississippi in Architecture | publisher = W.P.A. Historical Research Project | date = 1938 | url = https://www.flickr.com/photos/mississippi-dept-of-archives-and-history/19107814610/}}</ref>

On January 2, 1865, during the Civil War, this was a battlefield in an engagement involving 3,300 Federal mounted troops and 1,100 [[Confederate Home Guard]]s led by General [[William Wirt Adams]]. The Union Army won this battle and took numerous prisoners.<ref name="PHMA"/><ref name="NPS">{{cite web | title = Historic Places Not On the National Register | publisher = United States National Park Service | url = https://parkplanning.nps.gov/showFile.cfm?projectID=48304&MIMEType=application%252Fpdf&filename=Inventory_-_Historic_Sites_not_on_National_Register.pdf&sfid=170744 }}</ref> The Franklin Presbyterian Church is still in use; its congregation has decided to keep the cannonball holes from the Civil War left visible as a reminder of its history.<ref name="NPS"/>

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In 1900 the white population was 80, and the settlement had a post office in the early 1900s.<ref name="Rowland">{{cite book | last = Rowland | first = Dunbar | title = Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form | publisher = Southern Historical Publishing Association | year = 1907 | url = https://archive.org/details/mississippicomp01rowlgoog | volume = 1 | page = [https://archive.org/details/mississippicomp01rowlgoog/page/n748 742]}}</ref>

A post office operated under the name Franklin from 1831 to 1906.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MS&county=Holmes | title=Holmes County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=2 June 2021}}</ref>


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Latest revision as of 05:26, 25 July 2023

Franklin, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
Franklin Church, built 1841
Franklin Church, built 1841
Franklin is located in Mississippi
Franklin
Franklin
Franklin is located in the United States
Franklin
Franklin
Coordinates: 33°02′09″N 90°00′07″W / 33.03583°N 90.00194°W / 33.03583; -90.00194
LandVereinigte Staaten
StateMississippi
CountyHolmes
Elevation
331 ft (101 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
39095
Area code662
GNIS feature ID670157[1]

Franklin is an unincorporated community located in Holmes County, Mississippi.[1] Mississippi Highway 17 passes through Franklin, which is approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of Lexington, the county seat, and approximately 12 miles (19 km) north of the town of Pickens.

This was long an area of cotton plantations. In the antebellum era, labor was provided by thousands of enslaved African Americans. After the war, many freedmen continued to work the land as sharecroppers and tenant farmers.

History

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Franklin was an early place of European-American settlement and developing cotton plantations from the 1830s, when most of the Choctaw people were removed to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. The American migrants were mostly from planter families in South Carolina and Virginia, and brought numerous slaves with them. Others they bought through the domestic slave trade to develop their extensive lands for cotton plantations.

Located a short distance east of the settlement is the Franklin Church and Cemetery.[2] Erected in 1841 from labor by enslaved African Americans, the church had two front entrances, one for men and one for women.[3]

On January 2, 1865, during the Civil War, this was a battlefield in an engagement involving 3,300 Federal mounted troops and 1,100 Confederate Home Guards led by General William Wirt Adams. The Union Army won this battle and took numerous prisoners.[3][4] The Franklin Presbyterian Church is still in use; its congregation has decided to keep the cannonball holes from the Civil War left visible as a reminder of its history.[4]

In 1900 the white population was 80, and the settlement had a post office in the early 1900s.[5]

A post office operated under the name Franklin from 1831 to 1906.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Franklin
  2. ^ "Franklin Church". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  3. ^ a b "Pictorial History: Mississippi in Architecture". W.P.A. Historical Research Project. 1938.
  4. ^ a b "Historic Places Not On the National Register". United States National Park Service.
  5. ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 742.
  6. ^ "Holmes County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved June 2, 2021.


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