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The old Heard County gas station was built in 1938 and features a vintage, hand-painted Coca-Cola advertisement.
|Named for||Benjamin Franklin|
|• Total||3.35 sq mi (8.68 km2)|
|• Land||3.21 sq mi (8.31 km2)|
|• Water||0.14 sq mi (0.36 km2)|
|Elevation||663 ft (202 m)|
|• Density||295.95/sq mi (114.26/km2)|
|Time zone||UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))|
|• Summer (DST)||UTC-4 (EDT)|
|GNIS feature ID||0314347|
Franklin is a village in Heard County, Georgia, United States. The population was 993 at the 2010 census, up from 902 at the 2000 census. Franklin is the county seat of Heard County. The city is named after Benjamin Franklin.
Franklin was settled in 1770. Franklin was designated seat of the newly formed Heard County in 1831.
Franklin is located at.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 3.4 square miles (8.8 km2), of which 3.2 square miles (8.3 km2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (4.13%) is water.
|U.S. Decennial Census|
|Black or African American (non-Hispanic)||217||22.84%|
|Hispanic or Latino||21||2.21%|
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 950 people, 421 households, and 215 families residing in the city.
Old Heard County Jail
Pauly Jail Company of Alabama built the jail in 1912 for $7,500, using plans by Manly Jail Works of Dalton, Georgia. It replaced an older jail built in 1880 that had become unfit. The jail housed up to 16 prisoners upstairs. The Heard County Sheriff (there were eight sheriffs from 1912–1964) and his family lived downstairs. In the 1930s, two prisoners cut the window bars and escaped. Death row prisoners were held here, but the jail's gallows were never used. In 1964, a new county jail opened on the Franklin Square and the old jail closed.
The jail was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 27, 1981. In 1987 it was completely restored by the Heard County Historical Society. It now serves as a museum and historical center.
Franklin Post Office (ZIP code: 30217)
Heard County School District
The Heard County School District holds pre-school to grade twelve, and consists of three elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school. The district has 132 full-time teachers and over 2,278 students.
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