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Franklin County, Massachusetts
Franklin County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Greenfield
Year Organized: 1811
Square Miles: 702 |
Court House: 425 Main Street
Greenfield, MA 01301-3336
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
For Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790), early American scientist, diplomat, and politician
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
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History
Established 1811 from Hampshire County. County seat: Greenfield.
Franklin County is located in north central Massachusetts. It is bordered by the Massachusetts counties of
Worcester to the east, Hampshire to the south, and Berkshire to the west. The Vermont counties of Bennington and
Windham, and the New Hampshire county of Cheshire, are at its northern boundary.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 725 square miles (1,877 kmē), of which, 702
square miles (1,818 kmē) of it is land and 23 square miles (59 kmē) of it (3.13%) is water. central southern
Franklin is dominated by the northern end of the pioneer valley with steep hills slowly rising on either side of the
Connecticut river.
Neighboring Counties:
- North: Windham County, Vt.
- Northeast: Cheshire County, N.H.
- Southeast: Worcester County
- South: Hampshire County
- Southwest: Berkshire County
- Northwest: Bennington County, Vt.
Cities and Towns:
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- Ashfield |
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- Bernardston |
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- Buckland |
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- Charlemont |
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- Colrain |
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- Conway |
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- Deerfield |
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- Erving |
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- Gill |
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- Greenfield
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- Hawley |
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- Heath |
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- Leverett |
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- Leyden |
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- Monroe |
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- Montague |
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- New Salem |
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- Northfield |
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- Orange |
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- Rowe |
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- Shelburne |
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- Shutesbury |
town |
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- Sunderland |
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- Warwick |
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- Wendell |
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- Whately |
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County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
act locally." |
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