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French Creek begins near French Creek, New York, and flows about 117 miles (188 km) to the Allegheny River at Franklin, Pennsylvania. The creek's drainage basin covers 1,270 square miles (3,300 km 2). [7] The watershed includes parts of Erie, Crawford, Venango, and Mercer counties in Pennsylvania as well as Chautauqua County in New York. [1]
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 is part of the Oil City micropolitan area.
French Creek State Park is a 7,977-acre (3,228 ha) Pennsylvania state park in North Coventry and Warwick Townships in Chester County and Robeson and Union Townships in Berks County, Pennsylvania. [3] It straddles northern Chester County and southern Berks County along French Creek. It is located in the Hopewell Big Woods. The park is the home ...
Sep. 8—It's time again to clean the stream. In 2022, there were 38,875 pounds of trash — or more than 19 tons — removed from the watershed during the one-day effort. Nearly 600 volunteers ...
French Creek at Franklin in 2012. Downstream from Meadville lay the town of Franklin at the confluence of French Creek with the Allegheny River. Merchants there, concerned that the feeder canal and the main canal would divert business from Franklin, persuaded the state to build a system of locks and dams on French Creek below Shaw's Landing at ...
Fort Machault (/ m ɑː ˈ ʃ ɔː l /, French:) was a fort built by the French in 1754 near the confluence of French Creek with the Allegheny River, in northwest Pennsylvania. (Present-day Franklin developed here later.) The fort helped the French control these waterways, part of what was known as the Venango Path from Lake Erie to the Ohio River.
Over the years, Oak Creek-Franklin schools have made headlines several times for racist incidents — like when Kenosha basketball players found racial slurs written in dust on their lockers ...
Fort Venango was a small British fort built in 1760 near the present-day site of Franklin, Pennsylvania.It replaced Fort Machault, a French fort built at the confluence of French Creek and the Allegheny River.