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Title

225 Years of Franklin County; A commemorative Booklet.

Author

Franklin County (Pa.) Visitors Bureau

Call#

974.8 Fra

Summary

"Settlement of the area began in the 1730s; and over the next fifty years, it grew and prospered. Government services, such as land acquisition or court proceedings, were located in Carlisle. Area residents--as citizens of Cumberland County--had to travel twenty-five to forty miles to take care of county government business.
In March1784, after unsuccessful petitions to the Pennsylvania legislature in 1782 and 1783, it was resolved "that a new county be granted and laid out to begin on the York County line on the South Mountain; thence by a square line to be run from the said beginning to the North or Blue Ridge, leaving Shippensburg to the east of said line; thence from the summit of the said North Mountain by the ridges dividing the waters of Shearman's Valley from the waters of the Path Valley, to the Gap, near the heads of the said Path Valley joining Bedford County, thence by the Bedford County line to the Maryland line; beginning; to be called - - - County; and that the said new county town shall be established by the law, at the well-known place called Chambers Town, and not elsewhere; and that a committee be appointed to bring a bill in Accordingly." On September 9, 1784, the bill passed, formed the county, and named it after the well-known American--Benjamin Franklin."

Accession number

2014.473

Published Date

2009

Subjects

Franklin County, Pa. --Pictorial Works
Franklin County, Pa. --History

Physical Description

64 pages. Illustrations, map, ports. 26 cm. Paperback.

Catalog Number

2014.473.1

Published Place

Chambersburg, Pa.

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