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Tepicon HallTepicon Hall · Photo: Nyttend · Public domain
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History · Franklin Township

15% of Franklin Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Tepicon Hall.

1on the National Register
15%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Franklin Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Franklin Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Franklin Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Franklin Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Beardstown
1903–1905
Volz
1915–1919
19001960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BeardstownRipley
Gone or out of use
Podell Airportairport
1cemetery inside Franklin Township
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story

How Franklin Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Franklin Township.

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Franklin Township was organized in 1855, and named after Franklin Township, Ripley County, Indiana, the native home of an early settler.

Tepicon Hall at Tippecanoe River State Park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Franklin Township, 1903 to 1919

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1903Post officeThe Beardstown post office opens
  3. 1905Post officeThe Beardstown post office closes
  4. 1915Post officeThe Volz post office opens
  5. 1919Post officeThe Volz post office closes
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Franklin Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1992
Tepicon Hall
Tepicon Hall
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

NPS Rustic1
Tepicon HallNPS Rustic

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Franklin Township

Nobody well known was born in Franklin Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Henry F. SchrickerAmerican politician · b. 1883
Anita AllenAmerican pentathlete · b. 1977
Justin HaleyAmerican racing driver · b. 1999
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Stuart GorrellAmerican banker, wrote the lyrics to "Georgia o… · b. 1901
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Hank SteinbrennerAmerican baseball executive · b. 1957
Hal SteinbrennerAmerican professional baseball team owner and e… · b. 1969
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Rich Grove TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTippecanoe Township1 historic placeB+California TownshipIts storyC+Monroe Township4 historic placesA

Questions about Franklin Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Franklin Township?

One place: the Tepicon Hall (listed 1992).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.