Editing Franklin, Michigan (section)

===Historical markers===
In 1960 a historical marker was erected that reads: 
<blockquote>FRANKLIN VILLAGE Founded in 1824–1825, Franklin received its present name in 1828. First postmaster was Dr. Ebenezer Raynale, state legislator and physician. The William Huston store, opened in 1830, was the forerunner of a business center that later included the famous Broughton Wagon Shop, the Van Every Mills, now Ye Olde Cider Mill; several taverns, two distilleries, and two churches. The village also was a station on the [[Underground Railroad]]. Franklin still has the appearance and atmosphere of an early Michigan village.</blockquote>

Another marker was installed in front of Franklin Village School: 
<blockquote>Franklin Village School – Michigan's [[Michigan Territorial Council|Territorial Council]] passed a law in 1827 requiring every township with fifty or more inhabitants to establish a school. Thus the following year, the first school in Southfield Township was erected in Franklin Village. Sophie Gotie taught twenty-nine students in a log schoolhouse located near the still extant house of early settler Daniel Broughton. Franklin village built a new school in 1845 at the foot of School Hill on property deeded by Winthrop Worthings. On this site in 1869 a third school was constructed on land given by wealthy postmaster A.A. Rust. After that building burned in 1922, the village erected the present school on this same location. The Franklin School District No. 3, Southfield Township, joined the [[Birmingham City School District|Birmingham Public Schools]] in 1945.</blockquote>

This building closed as a public school in 1979. In 1988, members of Metro Detroit's [[Islam in the United States|Muslim community]] bought the building and adapted it as Huda School and Montessori, a K-8 Islamic [[parochial school]]. On Saturdays the building houses the related Dar-al-Huda [[Islam]]ic [[Sunday school|Saturday school]].

In 2006, the Muslim community raised $3.6 million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=3600000|start_year=2006}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) to fund renovation and expansion of the school. In the summer of 2007, the Monahan Construction Company renovated the school. In September 2007, the community raised another $1 million to continue the project's second phase, which was completed in 2008. Franklin also the hometown [[Farmbrook Free Press]], a small publication.