Franklin Township, Wayne County, Ohio

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Franklin Township was established June 7, 1820 and was named in honor of Benjamin Franklin.[1]

The township composed part of the originally surveyed townships 14 and 15 of range 13.[2]

Reportedly James Morgan, a native of old Virginia, started the second permanent white settlement in Wayne County when he arrived in Franklin Township in the early spring of 1808.[3]

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  1. ↑ Douglass, Ben. History of Wayne County, Ohio. Indianapolis: Robert Douglass Publisher, 1878. pg. 596.
  2. ↑ Douglass, Ben. History of Wayne County, Ohio. Indianapolis: Robert Douglass Publisher, 1878. pg. 58.
  3. ↑ Wayne County Scrapbook, compliments of McIntire,Davis & Greene Funeral Home.
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