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Today |
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Post, Franklin’s Social Fabric Remains Intact
Just two weeks after the Franklin Trading Post was destroyed by
fire blamed on lightning, those who live in Franklin still refer to
the town’s loss as “devastating.”
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Yesterday |
Franklin’s
galamander is one of just two known galamanders on display
within the state of Maine.
A locally built, large-wheeled transporter, it was designed
for horses to haul huge slabs of granite from quarries in
Franklin and Sullivan. The other galamander is displayed in
the Maine State
Museum in Augusta.
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Memories |
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When the Railroad Stopped in Town
The Franklin lineage of longtime resident Dania Stager-Snow goes
back to John West, the man who gave the land for the 150-year-old
Franklin
Methodist
Church.
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Community |
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Veteran’s Club Is More Than Beano Games
Just up what locals call the
Blackwoods Road
toward Cherryfield, across from the town cemetery, stands the
Franklin Veteran’s Club.
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Neighbors |
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Grindle Does His
Duties: Scout Leader, Fire Chief
Franklin’s
Bob Grindle has two major involvements today because, years ago, two
people asked him to step forward and take charge.
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Town Clerking Runs
in the Fernald Family
Robert Fernald always has lived in the long, white farmhouse along
Route 200. He also has known forever the feeling of townspeople
coming to the door for this or that.
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| Written and photographed
by Katherine Williams. She can be contacted at 667-2576. |
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Go
Figure |
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Acreage:
25,061
Population, 2000: 1,370
Population, 1990: 1,432
Population 19 years old and younger, 2000: 335
Median age: 40.1
Schools: None
Library: Franklin Library
Churches: Baptist 1, Methodist 1
Town meeting: Last Saturday in March
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They
Said It |
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 “Our
historical society is very active. It’s the spine, the
backbone, of our small town.”
—Bruce Carter,
lifelong resident
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Milestones |
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1764:
First
settlers arrive at Butler’s Point.
1821:
Start of
shipbuilding era that produced (by 1896) 64 vessels.
1825:
Town incorporated.
1825:
Franklin
Methodist Church built on land given by John West.
1900:
Building
that’s now the Franklin Community Center is built as a Free High School,
later (1948) converted to the Franklin Elementary School.
1903:
Schoodic Grange is organized, with present building constructed in 1915.
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