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==History== Franklin was [[plat]]ted in 1823.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/historyjohnsonc00brangoog | title=History of Johnson County, Indiana | publisher=B. F. Bowen & Company | author=Branigin, Elba L. | year=1913 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyjohnsonc00brangoog/page/n541 525]}}</ref> It was [[List of places named for Benjamin Franklin|named]] after [[Benjamin Franklin]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Banta|first=David Demaree|title=A Historical Sketch of Johnson County, Indiana|url=https://archive.org/details/historicalsketch01bant|year=1881|publisher=J.H. Beers & Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/historicalsketch01bant/page/31 31]}}</ref> The Franklin post office was established in 1824.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Johnson |title=Johnson County |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |access-date=12 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112070650/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Johnson |archive-date=12 November 2014 }}</ref> Franklin was incorporated as a city in 1861.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hellmann |first=Paul T. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA316#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States |date=2006-02-14 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-94859-7 |language=en}}</ref> [[Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Franklin, Indiana)|Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church]], [[Franklin College Library (Shirk Hall)]], [[Franklin College-Old Main]], [[Franklin Commercial Historic District]], [[Franklin Senior High School (Indiana)|Franklin Senior High School]], [[Greenlawn Cemetery (Franklin, Indiana)|Greenlawn Cemetery]], [[Herriott House]], [[Johnson County Courthouse Square]], [[Martin Place Historic District]], [[Johnson County Museum of History|Masonic Temple]], and [[August Zeppenfeld House]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref><ref name="nps">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20130705.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2013-07-05|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 6/24/13 THROUGH 6/28/13|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref><ref name="nps1">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20151224.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2015-12-24|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 12/14/15 through 12/18/15 |publisher=National Park Service}}</ref> ===Franklin Wonder Five=== The small town became nationally famous during the 1920s due to the outstanding athletic achievements of the local high school basketball team, who became known as the [[Franklin Wonder Five]]. A small group who had played together as boys, led by [[Fuzzy Vandivier]] and coached by [[Ernest "Griz" Wagner]], they became the first high school team to win the state championship for three consecutive years (1920β22). The youths followed Wagner to the local [[Franklin College (Indiana)|Franklin College]], where he became coach and they earned the title of national college champions in 1923. They turned down an offer to play against the top professional team, the [[Original Celtics|New York Celtics]]. ===''Life'' magazine feature=== The December 2, 1940 issue of ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine included a photo essay by [[Bernard Hoffman]] entitled, "A Small Town's Saturday Night,"<ref>[http://www.life.com/search/?type=purchasable&q0=franklin+indiana&page=1], ''Life''</ref> depicting farmers Glen and Norris Dunn and family on a typical Saturday night in Franklin: Dad getting a hair cut, and the kids seeing a movie at the Artcraft, people at the drugstore, as well as photos of other social spots, such as Nick's Candy Kitchen and the town's "lovers' lane." The nighttime photo showing double-parked cars and thick crowds on Jefferson Street is perhaps the best known of the set. According to the late-20th century critic James Guimond in his book on American photography, <blockquote>Since "Life" wanted a perfect Saturday night, and one they considered typical, the photographer did not select a town still blighted by the [[Great Depression|Depression]]... What "Life's"' readers wanted, it seemed, was a stereotyped village that confirmed their nostalgic beliefs about small towns in which no one is bored, poor, or lonely; and the magazine's photographers and editors - like [[Norman Rockwell]] in his "[[Saturday Evening Post]]" covers - gave them exactly that kind of town.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=UHNCKKhhCQQC&q=James+Guimond,+%27%27American+Photography+and+the+American+Dream James Guimond, ''American Photography and the American Dream''], Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1991, pp. 160-161</ref></blockquote>
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