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Franklin is a city in and the county seat of Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States, located at the confluence of French Creek and the Allegheny River. The population was 6,097 in the 2020 census . [ 3 ]
Franklin Historic District is a national historic district located at Franklin, Venango County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 380 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Franklin. It includes commercial, residential, industrial, and institutional buildings.
Fort Franklin was a post-Revolutionary War fort built in 1787 on French Creek in what is now Venango County, Pennsylvania to protect local settlers from Native American raids during the Northwest Indian War. During the preceding years, settlers threatened by raids would have to seek shelter at Fort Pitt. Westward expansion of white settlements ...
Location of Franklin County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Pennsylvania.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States.
A historical marker is located where the fort formerly stood, on 8th and Elk Streets , in Franklin. [16] It was erected on October 10, 1971 by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. [17] A stone roadside marker nearby reads: "Site of Fort Venango, erected by the English in 1760; taken and burned by Indians, 1763." [18]
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Franklin County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The locations of the historical markers, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates as provided by the PHMC's database, are included below when available.
Franklin County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the population was 155,932. [1] Its county seat is Chambersburg. [2]Franklin County comprises the Chambersburg–Waynesboro, PA metropolitan statistical area, which is also included in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.
A historical marker was placed in Franklin, Pennsylvania in 1969 by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. [20] [2] A site marker at 616 Elk Street in Franklin indicates where the fort stood. [21] [22]