706
71%
$43,182
10.5%
America/Boise
83237
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Franklin, ID - History
We would like to provide the residents of Franklin a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Franklin Home page. The Franklin Home page provides as much information as possible on Franklin. Knowing Franklin’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Franklin’s Home page, you will also find Franklin’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Franklin has a population of 706. 55% of Franklin’s inhabitants are Male, and 45 are female. 54.1% of Franklin is married and 71.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $150,056, and the average rent is $917. Household median income in Franklin is $43,182, and the individual median income is $24,464. Franklin’s Ethnic is the following: White(89.7%), Hispanic(25.8%), Other(9.1%), Multiple(1.1%), Asian(0.1%).
The town was founded by Mormon pioneers led by Thomas S. Smart on April 14, 1860, in what was then Washington Territory, although at the time it was believed the settlement was within the bounds of Utah Territory. The town was named for Franklin Richards, an Apostle for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Franklin is the first permanent European settlement in present-day Idaho. Its political status remained ambiguous until an 1872 survey determined the townsite was in Idaho Territory about 1-mile (1.6 km) north of the Utah Territory border. The area within the town limits was platted into square blocks in 1864.Part of the 2004 comedy film Napoleon Dynamite were shot near Franklin.
The chicken farm scenes were filmed on Ritewood Egg Farms property, and the supervisor's character is loosely based on Marlow Woodward, a late Franklin resident and one of the farm's founders.
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