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==History== Idaho's oldest permanent non-native settlement occurred at Franklin on April 14, 1860, when members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints led by Thomas S. Smart established the settlement at its present location on the Cub River. It was the seventh and northernmost settlement in the Cache Valley at the time of its settlement and was believed to be in Utah until the Idaho boundary with Utah was finalized in 1872.<ref>{{Cite web |title=An Early History of Franklin |url=http://franklinidaho.org/History2.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722000345/http://franklinidaho.org/History2.htm |archive-date=July 22, 2012 |access-date=February 14, 2017 |website=franklinidaho.org}}</ref> All of the county's incorporated cities were settled by 1868 with Oxford settled in 1864, Weston in 1865, Dayton in 1868, Clifton in 1869, and Preston by 1868. The [[Bear River Massacre]] took place in present-day Franklin County on January 29, 1863.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89067406256;view=1up;seq=958 |title=Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |date=1941 |pages=148, 176, 626, 946 |access-date=February 14, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Judy |first=Clarence |url=http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5843&context=etd |title=A History of Preston, Idaho |date=1961 |publisher=Brigham Young University |location=Provo |pages=8, 10–11, 19 |access-date=February 14, 2017}}</ref> While the settlers at Franklin were effectively governed by Utah Territory until 1872, the settlers were actually located within Washington Territory from 1860 to 1863 and not within the boundary of any county until Shoshone was created in 1861. They became part of Idaho County in 1861, and Boise in 1863. And finally, under Idaho Territory, they briefly became part of Owyhee County before being transferred to Oneida County in 1864. At the 1870 census, the three Franklin County precincts were enumerated in Cache County, Utah, containing 1,053 residents.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1870a-01.pdf |title=Ninth Census—Volume I: The Statistics of the Population of the United States |date=1872 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington |pages=275 |access-date=February 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051108174045/http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1870a-01.pdf |archive-date=November 8, 2005 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1885, the northern portion of the county was transferred to Bingham County at its creation. At the 1890 Census, Bingham and Oneida Counties returned five precincts of Dayton, Franklin, Oxford, Preston, and Treasureton with 4,969 residents.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1890a_v1-01.pdf |title=Report on the Population of the United States at the Eleventh Census: 1890 |date=1895 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington |pages=99–100 |access-date=February 15, 2017}}</ref> The Oxford and Treasureton precincts were transferred to Bannock County at its establishment in 1893. Bannock County retained the Oxford precinct and renamed the Treasureton Precinct as Cleveland. By 1900, Oneida contained seven precincts that would later be entirely within Franklin County. Together, the nine precincts comprised a population of 6,566 at that time.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1890a_v1-01.pdf |title=Census Reports Volume I: Twelfth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1900 |date=1901 |publisher=United States Census Office |pages=110, 113 |access-date=February 15, 2017}}</ref> The Cleveland and Treasureton areas were transferred to Franklin County in 1918. The portion of the Thatcher area in Franklin County remained within Bannock County until 1946.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Idaho Atlas of Historical County Boundaries |date=2010 |publisher=The Newberry Library |location=Chicago |pages=27, 84–86, 95, 162, 176, 183, 231}}</ref> In 1953, an aircraft carrying 37 Korean War veterans crashed in the mountains of eastern Franklin County, killing all aboard. This is the most deadly aviation accident in Idaho. A memorial was dedicated in 1967. It is locally known as the Pat Hollow crash site.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Curtiss C-46F N1648M Fish Haven, ID |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19530107-0 |access-date=September 4, 2022 |website=aviation-safety.net}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Pat Hollow Crash Site {{!}} IAMC |url=http://motoidaho.org/node/2676 |access-date=May 24, 2022 |website=motoidaho.org}}</ref>
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