Franklin (Vermont)
Franklin County
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Franklin is a city in the state of Vermont in the United States near the Canadian border. The 1,405 inhabitants ( according to the census of 2010 ) live mainly on agriculture and forestry. The center in the settlement located, about 5 km ² Lake Carmi, who was the first settlers still an eyesore, and the location on Lake Carmi State Park him are today regarded as the tourist attractions of the place. Around this lake are the three population centers in the city: Franklin in the North West, North and South Franklin Franklin in the northeast and southeast of the lake.
When it was founded in 1789 after the owners of the land, Jonathan Hunt, still referred to as Huntsburg, the citizens of the town called their settlement after a vote in 1802 Franklin, to increase the probability of being the administrative center of the district, which established in 1792, after almost two years before the late Benjamin Franklin was named. The administrative headquarters but was down to St. Albans. Also the central Lake Carmi carries only been a vote in 1920, this name; before he was known as Huntsburg Pond, later as Franklin Pond and from the end of the 19th century as Silver Lake. The Lake Carmi Carmi is named after Marsh, the builder of a great civil war monument in the center.
Franklin has two churches: A Roman Catholic and a Methodist. An elementary school is also based in the town.
Surrounding towns
All information provided in air lines.
- North: Bedford (Canada), 17.0 km
- Northeast: Frelighsburg (Canada), 10.0 km
- East: Berkshire, 9.5 km
- Southeast: Enosburgh, 14.5 km
- South: Fairfield, 19.5 km
- Southwest: Sheldon, 9.5 km
- West: Highgate, 16.5km
- North West: Saint -Armand, Canada 12.0 km
Sons and daughters of the town
- Seth Wakeman (1811-1880), lawyer and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Charles W. Gates (1856-1927), Senator and Governor of Vermont.