Editing Franklin Furnace, Ohio (section)

==History==
Franklin Furnace was the name of an early [[iron ore]] furnace built in eastern Scioto County in 1826.<ref>{{cite book|last=Evans|first=Nelson Wiley|title=A History of Scioto County, Ohio: Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/t7np5qd3x;view=1up;seq=479|year=1903|publisher=N. W. Evans|page=371}}</ref> The community that grew in that area is named after the furnace.<ref>{{cite book|last=Overman|first=William Daniel|title=Ohio Town Names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015361465;view=1up;seq=63|year=1958|publisher=Atlantic Press|location=Akron, OH|page=47}}</ref> The community's name ultimately is derived from [[Benjamin Franklin]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bannon|first=Henry Towne|title=Stories Old and Often Told, Being Chronicles of Scioto County, Ohio|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027058901;view=1up;seq=338|year=1927|publisher=Waverly Press|location=Baltimore|page=274}}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>  It is located within the land that was the [[French Grant]] by Congress in 1795 to a group of French colonists were defrauded by the [[Scioto Company]]. A post office called Franklin Furnace has been in operation since 1828.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=OH&county=Scioto |title=Scioto County |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |access-date=2 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050414070013/http://postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=OH&county=Scioto |archive-date=14 April 2005 }}</ref>