Franklin was a small town established in 1854 in Douglas County, Kansas Territory. It was established by settlers, mostly or all from the nation's south, who wanted the territory admitted to the Union as a slave state. By late 1855 Franklin had about a dozen homes and businesses and a post office. It became a center devoted to the southern cause in Kansas.Sheriff Samuel Jones headquartered his cause in Franklin by spring 1856.
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