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Franklin is a city in and the county seat
County seat

A county seat or parish seat is a term for an administrative center for a county or civil parish, primarily used in the United States. In the Northeast United States, the statutory term often is shire town, but colloquially county seat is the term in use there....
 of Williamson County
Williamson County, Tennessee

Williamson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 126,638, and the United States Census Bureau estimates its population as of 2005 to be 153,595....
, Tennessee
Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The population was 41,842 at the 2000 census
United States Census, 2000

File:US-Census-2000Logo.svgThe Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the United States Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons Enumeration during the United States Census, 1990....
.

History
The City of Franklin was founded October 26, 1799 and was named after Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and Printer , Satire, list of political philosophers, politician, scientist, inventor, activism, statesman, and diplomacy....
, a close friend of Dr. Hugh Williamson
Hugh Williamson

Hugh Williamson was an Politics of the United States. He is best known for representing North Carolina at the Philadelphia Convention.Williamson was a scholar of international renown....
, a member of the Continental Congress
Continental Congress

The Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution....
 for whom Williamson County was named.

For most of its first 180 years, Franklin was a tranquil, small county seat. In the years prior to the American Civil War
American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
, Williamson County was one of the wealthiest counties in Tennessee and Franklin was the center of plantation economy.

However, the Civil War devastated the economy.






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Franklin is a city in and the county seat
County seat

A county seat or parish seat is a term for an administrative center for a county or civil parish, primarily used in the United States. In the Northeast United States, the statutory term often is shire town, but colloquially county seat is the term in use there....
 of Williamson County
Williamson County, Tennessee

Williamson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 126,638, and the United States Census Bureau estimates its population as of 2005 to be 153,595....
, Tennessee
Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The population was 41,842 at the 2000 census
United States Census, 2000

File:US-Census-2000Logo.svgThe Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the United States Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons Enumeration during the United States Census, 1990....
.

History


The City of Franklin was founded October 26, 1799 and was named after Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and Printer , Satire, list of political philosophers, politician, scientist, inventor, activism, statesman, and diplomacy....
, a close friend of Dr. Hugh Williamson
Hugh Williamson

Hugh Williamson was an Politics of the United States. He is best known for representing North Carolina at the Philadelphia Convention.Williamson was a scholar of international renown....
, a member of the Continental Congress
Continental Congress

The Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution....
 for whom Williamson County was named.

For most of its first 180 years, Franklin was a tranquil, small county seat. In the years prior to the American Civil War
American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
, Williamson County was one of the wealthiest counties in Tennessee and Franklin was the center of plantation economy.

However, the Civil War devastated the economy. Union
Union (American Civil War)

During the American Civil War, the Union was a name used to refer to the Federal government of the United States of the United States, which was supported by the twenty-three states which were not part of the secession attempt by the 11 states that formed the Confederate States of America....
 troops occupied the area for nearly three years. The Battle of Franklin
Battle of Franklin

The Battle of Franklin may refer to two different battles:* First Battle of Franklin, April 10, 1863. A battle of the American Civil War. Also known as the Battle of the Harpeth River....
 was fought on November 30, 1864, resulting in almost 10,000 casualties (killed, wounded, captured and missing) and turning forty-four buildings in town into field hospitals. (See and http://www.carnton.org/ The Carnton Plantation].) It took 120 years for the county's economy to reach pre-war levels.

Franklin has grown from a very small, agricultural community into a strong blend of residential, commercial and corporate citizens.

Demographics

As of the census
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
 of 2000, there were 41,842 people, 16,128 households, and 11,225 families residing in the city. The population density
Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
 was 1,393.3 people per square mile (538.0/kmē). There were 17,296 housing units at an average density of 575.9/sq mi (222.4/kmē). The racial makeup of the city was 84.53% Caucasian
Caucasian race

The term Caucasian race has been used to denote the general physical type of some or all of the indigenous populations of Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Asia, Central Asia and South Asia....
, 10.35% Black
Black people

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, 4.84% Hispanic/Latino, 1.61% Asian, 0.24% Native American, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 2.17% from other races
Race (United States Census)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget , are Self-concept data items in which residents choose the Race in the United States or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin ....
, and 1.06% from two or more races.

There were 16,128 households out of which 38.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.2% were married couples
Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
 living together, 10.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.4% were non-families. 25.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.55 and the average family size was 3.09.

In the city the population was spread out with 27.9% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 38.1% from 25 to 44, 19.2% from 45 to 64, and 7.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 93.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.2 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $65,506, and the median income for a family was $69,431 (these figures had risen to $74,914 and $87,125 respectively as of a 2007 estimate). Males had a median income of $50,226 versus $31,531 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income

Per capita income means how much each individual receives, in monetary terms, of the yearly income generated in the country. This is what each citizen is to receive if the yearly national income is divided equally among everyone....
 for the city was $32,160. About 5.1% of families and 6.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.0% of those under age 18 and 12.0% of those age 65 or over.

It is currently the richest city in Williamson county, which is the 18th wealthiest county in the United States.

Notable events


  • In November 1864, the Second Battle of Franklin of the Civil War
    American Civil War

    The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
     took place, with the first fifteen minutes being the most bloody fifteen minutes in all American history.
  • The movie premieres of Friday Night Lights and Elizabethtown
    Elizabethtown (film)

    Elizabethtown is a 2005 in film United States film written and directed by Cameron Crowe starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst. Orlando Bloom plays a shoe designer visiting his father's hometown in Kentucky in the days following the father's death, and Kirsten Dunst plays a flight attendant....
     were held in Franklin.


Notable residents



  • Luke Benward
    Luke Benward

    Lucas Aaron "Luke" Benward is an United States Child actor and singer. He is best known for his starring role as Billy in How to Eat Fried Worms and as Charlie Tuttle in the 2008 Disney Channel Original Movie, Minutemen ....
    , Billy Forrester in How To Eat Fried Worms
  • Paramore
    Paramore

    Paramore is an American Rock music band that formed in Franklin, Tennessee, Tennessee in 2004 consisting of Hayley Williams , Josh Farro , Taylor York , Jeremy Davis , and Zac Farro ....
    , band
  • Steve Camp
    Steve Camp

    Steve Camp is a prominent United States Dove Award-nominated contemporary Christian music artist with an adult contemporary pop sound. He was very popular in the 1980s and early 1990s, but his popularity now continues mostly in his Christian writing addressing current trends and matters of Reformed Theology....
    , contemporary artist / evangelical minister
  • Nick Carter
    Nick Carter

    Nick Carter may refer to:...
    , singer
  • Kenny Chesney
    Kenny Chesney

    Kenneth Arnold "Kenny" Chesney is an American country music artist. Since 1993, Chesney has recorded thirteen albums, eleven of which have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA....
    , singer
  • Paul Colman
    Paul Colman

    Paul Colman, is a United Kingdom–Australian pop-rock guitarist, singer, pianist, and composer.Colman was born and brought up in London; his father is Australian and his mother is British....
    , singer / songwriter / member of The Newsboys, Christian music
  • Sheryl Crow
    Sheryl Crow

    Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an United States singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock music, country music, pop music and folk music, into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards....
    , singer / songwriter
  • Steven Curtis Chapman
    Steven Curtis Chapman

    Steven Curtis Chapman is a Contemporary Christian musician.After starting his career in the late 80s as a songwriter, Chapman has turned into one of the most prolific singers in the genre, releasing more than 20 albums to this date....
    , Christian singer/songwriter
  • Walter Egan
    Walter Egan

    Walter Egan is an United States rock and roll musician, best known for his 1978 #8 hit single "Magnet and Steel" from his album Not Shy, produced by Lindsey Buckingham and Richard Dashut of Fleetwood Mac fame....
    , Singer
  • Sara Evans
    Sara Evans

    Sara Lynn Evans is an American country music singer-songwriter who has had numerous top 10 hits.Sara Evans was one of the few traditional-styled singers to emerge from Nashville in the late 1990s, according to Allmusic....
    , Country Singer
  • Jeff Fisher
    Jeff Fisher

    Jeffrey Michael "Jeff" Fisher is a American football coach, currently the head coach of the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League. Fisher has the longest tenure as head coach with one team among active head coaches in the league....
    , head coach of the NFL team, Tennessee Titans
  • Troy Gentry, country singer and one-half of country music duo Montgomery Gentry
    Montgomery Gentry

    Montgomery Gentry is an American country music duo composed of Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry. Both brothers and Gentry were originally members of a country band which had local success in clubs throughout the state of Kentucky....
  • Kurt Heinecke
    Kurt Heinecke

    Kurt Heinecke is a composer who works for Big Idea Productions, and who has created or co-created much of the popular music associated with VeggieTales....
    , composer of the Christian series VeggieTales
    VeggieTales

    VeggieTales is a series of English language children's computer animation films featuring anthropomorphic vegetables. Developed by Big Idea Productions, the films convey moral themes based on Christianity, often compatible with Judaism, spliced with satirical references to pop culture and News....
  • Will Hoge
    Will Hoge

    Will Hoge is an American musician from Nashville, Tennessee....
    , singer/songwriter, born and raised in Franklin
  • Alan Jackson
    Alan Jackson

    Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music artist who has sold over 50 million records. He was influenced by the neotraditional country country of the 1980s, and he was one of the most popular country singers of the 1990s, blending both honky tonk music and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits....
    , Country Singer
  • George Jones
    George Jones

    George Glenn Jones , is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette....
    , country singer
  • Ashley Judd
    Ashley Judd

    Ashley Judd is a Golden Globe-nominated United Statesn actress, well known for playing a number of strong women characters in films such as Kiss the Girls , Double Jeopardy and High Crimes....
    , actress
  • Wynonna Judd
    Wynonna Judd

    Wynonna Judd is an American country music singer. Born Christina Claire Ciminella, she was renamed Wynonna Ellen Judd, a name adapted from the line "Don't forget Winona, Arizona" in the pop song "Route 66 "....
    , singer
  • Naomi Judd
    Naomi Judd

    Naomi Judd is an United States country music singer, songwriter, and activist....
    , singer
  • Alison Krauss
    Alison Krauss

    Alison Krauss is an American Bluegrass music-Country music singer and fiddler. She entered the music of the United States at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen....
    , singer
  • Will Sharber, mountain climber
  • Tim Dawson
    Tim Dawson

    Tim Dawson is an England television comedy writer. His first situation comedy, Coming of Age , was piloted in 2007 and the first full series broadcast on BBC Three in 2008....
    , mountain climber
  • David LaBruyere
    David LaBruyere

    David "DeLa" LaBruyere is a musician, songwriter and producer, most notably known as the former longtime bass guitarist for John Mayer....
    , songwriter / producer / touring bassist for John Mayer
  • Burney Lamar
    Burney Lamar

    Burney Lamar is a NASCAR driver. He began racing go-karts at the age of 5, and won a total of twenty-five track championships and three International Karting Federation Regional titles....
    , NASCAR Driver
  • TobyMac, Christian rap singer
  • Michael McDonald
    Michael McDonald (singer)

    Michael McDonald is a Music recording sales certification and Music recording sales certification United States R&B/soul music singer and songwriter....
    , singer
  • George Maney
    George Maney

    George Earl Maney was an United States soldier, politician, railroad executive and diplomat. He was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum U.S....
    , Confederate general in the American Civil War
  • McGee Brothers
    McGee Brothers

    The McGee Brothers were an American Old-time music performing duo consisting of brothers Sam McGee and Kirk McGee . Sam typically played guitar and Kirk usually played banjo or fiddle, although they were both proficient in multiple string instruments....
     — Long-time Grand Ole Opry
    Grand Ole Opry

    The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music radio programming and concert broadcast live on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee, every Friday and Saturday night, as well as Tuesdays from March through December....
     performing duo
  • David Meece
    David Meece

    David Meece is a contemporary Christianity musician who enjoyed success in the mid 80s throughout the early 2000s. Growing up in Humble, Texas, Texas, with an abusive, alcoholism father, David found solace in playing the piano....
    , Christian musician
  • Krystal Meyers
    Krystal Meyers

    Krystal Meyers is an United States Christian rock musician. Her music combines hard-edged rock with smooth acoustic melodies.In early June 2008, the music video for "Make Some Noise", the first single from her third album, hit the internet....
    , pop punk / Christian rock singer
  • Nicole C. Mullen
    Nicole C. Mullen

    Nicole Coleman Mullen is an award-winning singer, songwriter, and choreographer. She was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She recorded her first solo album, Don?t Let Me Go, in 1991 with the Indie Frontline Records ....
    , singer / songwriter Christian & R&B music
  • Mike Nawrocki
    Mike Nawrocki

    Michael Nawrocki is the cofounder along with Phil Vischer of Big Idea Productions, the company best known for bringing computer-animated vegetables to life in the popular VeggieTales series....
    , co-creator of the Big Idea Productions
    Big Idea Productions

    Big Idea, Inc., is an United States computer animation production company best known for its VeggieTales series of Christian-themed family home videos and sometimes in co-production with Warner Home Video....
     Christian series VeggieTales
    VeggieTales

    VeggieTales is a series of English language children's computer animation films featuring anthropomorphic vegetables. Developed by Big Idea Productions, the films convey moral themes based on Christianity, often compatible with Judaism, spliced with satirical references to pop culture and News....
  • Brad Paisley
    Brad Paisley

    Brad Douglas Paisley is a Grammy Award-winning American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist. Starting with the release of his 1999 album Who Needs Pictures, Paisley has recorded six studio albums and a Christmas compilation on the Arista Nashville label, with all of his albums certified gold or higher by the RIAA....
    , country singer
  • Jordan Pruitt
    Jordan Pruitt

    Jordan Lynne Pruitt is an United States pop music singer-songwriter signed to Hollywood Records....
    , Pop / R&B Singer
  • Michael W. Smith
    Michael W. Smith

    Michael W. Smith is a Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, musician, recording artist, composer, and actor. He is one of the best-selling and most influential artists in Contemporary Christian Music, and he has achieved considerable success in the mainstream music industry as well....
    , pop / Christian singer
  • Joe Smyth, drummer for Sawyer Brown
    Sawyer Brown

    Sawyer Brown is an American country music band founded in 1981 in Apopka, Florida by five members of country pop singer Don King 's road band: Bobby Randall and Jim Scholten , both from Midland, Michigan; Joe Smyth , Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard , and Mark Miller ....
  • Rebecca St. James
    Rebecca St. James

    Rebecca St. James , is a multiple Dove Award and Grammy Award-winning Christian pop rock singer, songwriter, and published author. She is known for her hit singles "Wait For Me ", "God ", "Reborn ", "Omega ", "Pray ", "Come Quickly Lord", "Yes, I Believe in God" and "Alive"....
    , Christian singer
  • James Storm
    James Storm

    James Allan Black is an American Professional wrestling who competes under the ring name " Cowboy" James Storm. He is currently contracted with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling....
    , professional wrestler
  • Hank Sweeney
    Hank Sweeney

    Harry Leon Sweeney was a Major League Baseball first baseman who appeared in one game for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1944. A native of Franklin, Tennessee, the 28-year-old rookie stood 6'0" and weighed 185 lbs....
    , baseball player
  • Billy Strange
    Billy Strange

    William E. Strange is an United States singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor.Billy Strange teamed up with Mac Davis to write several hit songs for Elvis Presley including A Little Less Conversation, the theme from Charro! and Memories ....
    , singer, songwriter for Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
    , Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
    , and Sammy Davis Jr.
  • Gary Talley
    Gary Talley

    Gary Talley is a best known as the electric guitar and founder of the Box Tops. He is currently a teacher at Music and Arts Center in Nashville, Tennessee....
    , guitarist for The Boxtops
  • Derrick Turnbow
    Derrick Turnbow

    Thomas Derrick Turnbow is a right-handed Major League Baseball relief pitcher with the Texas Rangers organization....
    , baseball player
  • Darrell Waltrip
    Darrell Waltrip

    Darrell Lee Waltrip is a three-time former NASCAR Championship champion, the 1989 Daytona 500 winner, current television race commentator with Fox Broadcasting Company and columnist at Foxsports.com....
    , 3-time NASCAR
    NASCAR

    The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
     Winston Cup champion
  • Taylor Ware
    Taylor Ware

    Taylor Marie Ware is an United States singer and yodeler from Franklin, Tennessee, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee.Before Ware knew how to yodel, she performed at a county fair at age four....
    , country singer
  • Holly Watson
    Holly Watson

    Holly Watson is a TV spokeswoman, Gospel singer, tv host and actress from Franklin, Tennessee, Tennessee. She is well known in local tv markets in Florida, for her voiceover work, and Syracuse, New York, New York for her advertisements for auto dealerships....
    , Christian singer, tv spokeswoman
  • Kirk Whalum
    Kirk Whalum

    Kirk Whalum is an United States smooth jazz saxophonist and songwriter. He toured as Whitney Houston's opening act for several years. Whalum has also recorded a series of well received solo albums and film soundtracks, with music ranging from pop music to R&B to smooth jazz....
    , jazz / blues saxophonist
  • Adam Wright
    Adam Wright

    Adam Wright is an Australian former professional rugby league player for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the National Rugby League competition. His position of choice was Rugby_League_positions#Fullback....
    , rugby player
  • Sterling Marlin
    Sterling Marlin

    Sterling Marlin is a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver who drives the #09 Finch Racing car on a part time basis. He is the son of former NASCAR driver Coo Coo Marlin....
    , NASCAR
    NASCAR

    The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
     driver
  • Tamera Alexander
    Tamera Alexander

    Tamera Gattis Alexander is an American author of Christian fiction, who specializes in the inspirational romance genre. She is best known for her award-winning first series, the Fountain Creek Chronicles ....
    , Christian author


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