AREA HISTORY:  Topography, Franklin Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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TOPOGRAPHY – Page 662

Franklin was reduced to its present quadrangular shape by the erection of Carroll out of parts 
of it and of Monaghan, in 1831.  It is the extreme northwestern part of the county, with 
Cumberland County on the northern boundary, Adams County on the western, Carroll on the 
eastern, and Washington on the southern.  The South Mountains, which still contain wild 
turkeys, wild cats, and an occasional deer, extend across the northern part of the township, at 
an elevation of 1,000 feet above sea level.  The township is drained by small tributaries of 
the Yellow Breeches and the north branch of the Bermudian.  It lies within the Mesozoic 
sandstone belt, and contains much fertile and valuable farming land.

In 1884 the number of taxable inhabitants was 390; valuation of real estate, $421,003; county 
tax, $1,610; State tax, $116; population in 1880, including the borough, was 1,186.

There are eighty-two township in the United States, and thirty-one counties, which bear the 
honored name of Franklin.