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What is the history of Franklin, New Hampshire, USA?

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Explore Franklin, New Hampshire, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures and genealogy.

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  Birthplace of Daniel Webster, Built 1780, Franklin, N.H.
  
• 1782 - Daniel Webster was a politician and statesman, born at Franklin in 1782.
  He was known in his day as a mighty orator, a reputation preserved in the Stephen Vincent Benet story The Devil and Daniel Webster, in which he beats ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Franklin
  Franklin, a post-township of Merrimack county, New Hampshire, on the W. side of Merrimack river, on the Northern railroad, 19 miles N. N. W. from...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1859
  FRANKLIN, a township of Merrimac co., in the state of New Hampshire, 18 m. NNW of Concord, watered by the Merrimac and its head-streams the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Franklin
  Franklin, a post-village of Merrimack co., N.H., in Franklin township, on the Merrimac River, at the mouth of the Winnepesaukee, and on the Northern...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Central Street
  
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  Aiken Point, Webster Lake, Franklin, N.H.
  
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  Library, Opera House and Post Office
  
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  Orphans Home, 1905
  
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  F. and T. Depot, 1908
  
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  Public Library
  
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  Pemmigewassett Power Co., 1908
  
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  Fishing in the Winnepesaukee River at Franklin, N.H., 1908
  
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  Central Street
  
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  View from Public Library, 1910
  
• 1916
  Franklin, a city of Merrimack co., N.H., on the Merrimac River, at the mouth of the Winnepesaukee, and on the Boston and Maine R., 19 miles NNW. of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Post Office
  
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  Hotel Webster