Franklin County NAACP President Eric Anspaugh said it’s important for this type of history to be told. “These 70 men’s history, hardly anyone knows...I knew nothing about it. Most of us knew ...

Franklin County is old, by Texas standards. Spanish explorers, the Cherokee people, Sam Houston and Davy Crockett traveled through here. Lineage and family farms in this northeast Texas county predate ...

Janet Mills did the honor Tuesday of swearing the five Franklin ... at the county courthouse. She also swore in Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. for his fourth term. It the first time in history there ...

CHAMBERSBURG — The Franklin County Commissioners have appointed ... executive director of both the Washington County Historical Society and Museum and the Frederick County Historical Society.