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| Franklin County | |
|---|---|
| U.Due south. county | |
 Franklin County Courthouse in May 2010 | |
 Location inside the U.S. country of Virginia | |
 Virginia's location within the U.S. | |
| Coordinates: 36°59′N 79°53′Westward / 36.99°Due north 79.88°W / 36.99; -79.88 | |
| State |  United States |
| Land |  Virginia |
| Founded | 1785 |
| Named for | Benjamin Franklin |
| Seat | Rocky Mount |
| Largest town | Rocky Mount |
| Area | |
| • Total | 712 sq mi (1,840 km2) |
| • Land | 690 sq mi (1,800 kmii) |
| • Water | 21 sq mi (50 km2) iii.0% |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 54,477  |
| • Density | 77/sq mi (30/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (Eastern) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−four (EDT) |
| Congressional district | 5th |
| Website | www |
Franklin Canton is located in the Blue Ridge foothills of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 demography, the population was 54,477.[one] Its canton seat is Rocky Mountain.[two] Franklin Canton is office of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Expanse and is located in the Roanoke Region of Virginia.[3] The Roanoke River forms its northeast boundary with Bedford County.
History [edit]
Franklin Canton historic mark, Land of Virginia
The Blue Ridge Foothills had long been inhabited by Native Americans. At the fourth dimension of European encounter, by and large Siouan-speaking tribes lived in this area.
A few colonists moved into the area earlier the American Revolutionary War, but most settlement happened afterward, every bit people moved west seeking new lands. Cultivation of tobacco had wearied soils in the eastern part of the state. The canton was formed in 1785 from parts of Bedford and Henry counties. It was named for Benjamin Franklin.[4] The Piedmont and backcountry areas were largely settled by Scots-Irish, who were the last major immigrant grouping from the British Isles to enter the colonies before the Revolutionary State of war. There were as well migrants from coastal areas, including free people of color, who moved to the frontier to escape racial strictures associated with the slave society of Virginia.[5]
The Dandy Moonshine Conspiracy era [edit]
In the 20th century during Prohibition, local wits named Franklin County the "Moonshine Capital of the World", as moonshine production and bootlegging drove the economy. As of 2000, the local chamber of commerce had adopted the championship as a heritage identification for the surface area. Moonshine is nonetheless beingness made in the surface area.[6]
Historians estimate that in the 1920s, 99 of every 100 Franklin County residents were in some style involved in the illegal liquor trade.[7] The bootleggers became involved with gangsters from Chicago and other major cities, and some local law enforcement officials were part of the criminal activities and killing of competitors.[8] "Between 1930 and 1935 local still operators and their business organization partners sold a volume of whiskey that would have generated $5,500,000 in excise taxes at the onetime 1920 revenue enhancement charge per unit."[8]
A lengthy federal investigation resulted in indictments and trials for 34 suspects in 1935 for what was called the "Smashing Moonshine Conspiracy," which attracted national attending. The author Sherwood Anderson was among the many outsiders who came to encompass the trial. At what was then the longest trial in state history, 31 people were convicted, but their jail sentences were relatively light (two years or less). Thirteen conspirators were sentenced merely to probation.[viii]
This period has recently received new attending by writers. T. Keister Greer's history The Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935 (2002) covered the trial and its background in the county.[nine] The writer Matt Bondurant had ancestors in the area, whose exploits during this period inspired his historical novel, The Wettest Canton in the World (2008). (The title was based on a argument by Anderson.) The book was adapted as a flick, Lawless, in 2012. In 2014 an historical novel with much history about the county and town came out: "Moonshine Corner, Keys to Rocky Mount," ISBN 9781500980115, by the widow of T. Keister Greer, Ibby Greer.
Late 20th century to nowadays [edit]
Since the 1980s, much residential development has occurred around Smith Mountain Lake. People live there who commute to work in the urbanized areas of Roanoke, Lynchburg, Martinsville, and Danville. Retirees have also moved in, and both groups have increased the county'south population.
Geography [edit]
According to the U.South. Demography Bureau, the county has a total area of 712 square miles (one,840 kmii), of which 690 square miles (1,800 km2) is country and 21 foursquare miles (54 km2) (3.0%) is h2o.[10] It is upriver of the fall line of the Roanoke River, located at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.
Districts [edit]
The county is divided into supervisor districts; a few are: Blackwater, Blueish Ridge, Boones Manufactory, Gills Creek, Rocky Mountain, Snow Creek, Spousal relationship Hall, Ferrum, Glade Colina, Penhook, and Callaway
Next counties [edit]
- Bedford County, Virginia — northeast
- Pittsylvania County, Virginia — southeast
- Henry County, Virginia — southward
- Patrick County, Virginia — southwest
- Floyd County, Virginia — w
- Roanoke Canton, Virginia — northwest
National protected areas [edit]
- Blueish Ridge Parkway (part)
- Booker T. Washington National Monument
Major highways [edit]
Demographics [edit]
| Historical population | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1790 | 6,842 | — | |
| 1800 | nine,302 | 36.0% | |
| 1810 | 10,724 | 15.3% | |
| 1820 | 12,017 | 12.ane% | |
| 1830 | 14,911 | 24.one% | |
| 1840 | 15,832 | vi.ii% | |
| 1850 | 17,430 | 10.1% | |
| 1860 | 20,098 | 15.3% | |
| 1870 | 18,264 | −9.1% | |
| 1880 | 25,084 | 37.3% | |
| 1890 | 24,985 | −0.4% | |
| 1900 | 25,953 | iii.9% | |
| 1910 | 26,480 | two.0% | |
| 1920 | 26,283 | −0.seven% | |
| 1930 | 24,337 | −7.iv% | |
| 1940 | 25,864 | 6.3% | |
| 1950 | 24,560 | −5.0% | |
| 1960 | 25,925 | 5.6% | |
| 1970 | 26,858 | 3.6% | |
| 1980 | 35,740 | 33.ane% | |
| 1990 | 39,549 | 10.7% | |
| 2000 | 47,286 | xix.6% | |
| 2010 | 56,159 | 18.8% | |
| 2020 | 54,477 | −3.0% | |
| U.South. Decennial Census[xi] 1790-1960[12] 1900-1990[13] 1990-2000[fourteen] 2010[fifteen] 2020[16] | |||
2020 census [edit]
| Race / Ethnicity | Pop 2010[xv] | Pop 2020[16] | % 2010 | % 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White lonely (NH) | 49,072 | 46,218 | 87.38% | 84.84% |
| Blackness or African American alone (NH) | iv,541 | 3,848 | viii.09% | seven.06% |
| Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH) | 112 | 75 | 0.twenty% | 0.14% |
| Asian alone (NH) | 251 | 303 | 0.45% | 0.56% |
| Pacific Islander alone (NH) | x | 20 | 0.02% | 0.04% |
| Some Other Race alone (NH) | 144 | 153 | 0.26% | 0.28% |
| Mixed Race/Multi-Racial (NH) | 605 | 1,905 | 1.08% | three.50% |
| Hispanic or Latino (whatever race) | ane,424 | 1,955 | two.54% | iii.59% |
| Total | 56,159 | 54,477 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
Note: the Us Demography treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.
2000 Census [edit]
As of the demography[17] of 2000, there were 47,286 people, 18,963 households, and thirteen,918 families residing in the county. The population density was 68 people per square mile (26/kmtwo). There were 22,717 housing units at an average density of 33 per square mile (13/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 88.95% White, 9.35% Black or African American, 0.19% Native American, 0.36% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.42% from other races, and 0.71% from two or more races. one.21% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of whatever race.
There were eighteen,963 households, out of which 29.10% had children nether the historic period of 18 living with them, 60.ten% were married couples living together, ix.40% had a female householder with no husband nowadays, and 26.60% were not-families. 22.60% of all households were fabricated upwards of individuals, and 8.90% had someone living solitary who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.44 and the average family size was two.84.
In the county, the population was spread out, with 22.20% under the age of 18, 8.10% from 18 to 24, 28.20% from 25 to 44, 27.20% from 45 to 64, and xiv.30% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was forty years. For every 100 females there were 97.twenty males. For every 100 females age eighteen and over, there were 96.xxx males.
The median income for a household in the canton was $38,056, and the median income for a family unit was $45,163. Males had a median income of $29,807 versus $22,215 for females. The per capita income for the canton was $19,605. Virtually 7.30% of families and nine.70% of the population were beneath the poverty line, including 12.lxx% of those under age 18 and nine.80% of those age 65 or over.
Government [edit]
Lath of supervisors [edit]
- Blackwater District: Ronald Mitchell
- Blueish Ridge Commune: Timothy Tatum (R)
- Boone District: R.A. "Ronnie" Thompson (R)
- Gills Creek District: Lorie Smith (R)
- Rocky Mount Commune: Mike Carter (I)
- Snow Creek District: W. Leland Mitchell (I)
- Spousal relationship Hall District: Tommy Cundiff (I)
Ramble officers [edit]
- Clerk of the Circuit Courtroom: Teresa J. Brown (I)
- Commissioner of the Revenue: Margaret Stone Torrence (I)
- Commonwealth's Chaser: Allen "A.J." Dudley Jr.
- Sheriff: W.Q. "Pecker" Overton Jr. (I)
- Treasurer: Susan J. Wray
Franklin is represented by Republicans David Suetterlein and Beak Stanley in the Virginia Senate, Republicans Wren Williams and Kathy Byron in the Virginia Business firm of Delegates, and Bob Good in the U.South. House of Representatives.
Education [edit]
Franklin Canton Public Schools operates public schools serving the county. The school system includes 12 elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school.
Eye School - Benjamin Franklin Center School(BFMS), VA
High Schoolhouse - Franklin County Loftier Schoolhouse(FCHS), VA
About four miles exterior of Callaway is the Phoebe Needles Mission School, an Episcopal mission school dating from 1907. The schoolhouse and mission church were used to serve the rural and mountain children of the county who could not get to the public schools in Callaway, Ferrum, or Rocky Mount. The school has at present become a church parish, Middle for Lifelong Learning and summer camp operated past the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.
Ferrum Higher was established in 1913. Ferrum College offers bachelor's degrees in twenty-eight major degree programs. The college continues to operate under the auspices of the Virginia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women of the Virginia Annual Conference.
| Year | Republican | Democratic | Third party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
| 2020 | xx,895 | 70.35% | eight,381 | 28.22% | 426 | 1.43% |
| 2016 | 18,569 | 68.85% | 7,257 | 26.91% | one,145 | 4.25% |
| 2012 | xvi,718 | 62.60% | 9,090 | 34.04% | 899 | 3.37% |
| 2008 | 15,414 | lx.68% | 9,618 | 37.86% | 369 | 1.45% |
| 2004 | xiv,048 | 63.21% | 8,002 | 36.01% | 173 | 0.78% |
| 2000 | 11,225 | 59.62% | 7,145 | 37.95% | 459 | 2.44% |
| 1996 | 7,382 | 43.46% | 7,300 | 42.97% | 2,305 | xiii.57% |
| 1992 | 6,724 | 42.83% | 6,590 | 41.97% | 2,387 | 15.xx% |
| 1988 | 7,391 | 55.73% | 5,734 | 43.24% | 136 | 1.03% |
| 1984 | 7,684 | 60.21% | 4,903 | 38.42% | 175 | 1.37% |
| 1980 | 4,993 | 45.02% | 5,685 | 51.26% | 412 | three.72% |
| 1976 | iii,532 | 34.63% | 6,439 | 63.13% | 228 | two.24% |
| 1972 | 4,674 | 65.74% | 2,273 | 31.97% | 163 | 2.29% |
| 1968 | 3,036 | 36.54% | 2,025 | 24.37% | three,247 | 39.08% |
| 1964 | 2,279 | 39.72% | 3,447 | 60.08% | 11 | 0.19% |
| 1960 | 2,080 | 41.47% | ii,924 | 58.29% | 12 | 0.24% |
| 1956 | 2,125 | 48.81% | 2,142 | 49.20% | 87 | 2.00% |
| 1952 | one,976 | 49.08% | 2,012 | 49.98% | 38 | 0.94% |
| 1948 | ane,100 | 39.10% | 1,343 | 47.74% | 370 | 13.15% |
| 1944 | ane,206 | 37.41% | 2,002 | 62.10% | 16 | 0.50% |
| 1940 | 925 | 31.17% | 2,037 | 68.63% | 6 | 0.20% |
| 1936 | 975 | 29.80% | 2,285 | 69.83% | 12 | 0.37% |
| 1932 | 812 | 26.39% | 2,245 | 72.96% | 20 | 0.65% |
| 1928 | ane,529 | 45.10% | 1,861 | 54.ninety% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1924 | one,077 | 35.98% | one,902 | 63.55% | 14 | 0.47% |
| 1920 | 1,381 | 43.83% | i,765 | 56.01% | 5 | 0.xvi% |
| 1916 | 1,094 | 42.37% | 1,481 | 57.36% | vii | 0.27% |
| 1912 | 415 | eighteen.35% | 1,238 | 54.73% | 609 | 26.92% |
Communities [edit]
Towns [edit]
- Boones Factory
- Rocky Mount
Census-designated places [edit]
- Ferrum
- Henry Fork
- Due north Shore
- Penhook
- Matrimony Hall
- Westlake Corner
Other unincorporated communities [edit]
- Burnt Chimney
- Callaway
- Glade Loma
- Hale's Ford
- Naff
- Redwood
- Snow Creek
- Wirtz
Notable people [edit]
- Jubal Anderson Early, Confederate general
- Booker T. Washington, a freedman (former slave) who became a leading educator and one of the prominent civil rights activists of his era, was born on the Burroughs Farm in Hale'southward Ford.
- Adam Clayton Powell Sr. (1865–1953), a prominent Baptist government minister nationally, was born to Sally Dunning, a free woman of color whose family had been free for at least 3 generations before the Civil War. He worked his way through Wayland Seminary and graduate school at Yale University. Afterwards working in New Haven, he was called to the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York from 1908 to 1936, which he developed as the largest congregation in the US at the fourth dimension, reaching ten,000 members.
- Bondurant Brothers; Howard, Forrest and Jack, were bootlegging brothers during the Prohibition Era. They are the main characters in Matt Bondurant's historical novel, The Wettest County in the Globe (2008), and in the film adapted from it, Lawless (2012).
- Ron Hodges, Major League Baseball catcher who played his entire career for the New York Mets from 1973 to 1984.
- Dwaine Board, National Football League Defensive Lineman and now Cleveland Browns defensive line jitney was role of four Super Bowl victories for the San Francisco 49ers, three as a player (Super Basin XVI, Super Bowl XIX, and Super Bowl XXIII) and one as a motorcoach (Super Bowl XXIX). As a thespian Board recorded 61.0 career sacks and eight more than in the postseason from 1979 to 1988. He earned Defensive Player of the Game honors in San Francisco'southward 38–16 win over Miami.
- Jesse L. Martin, role player, primarily known for his function equally Detective Ed Light-green on the Idiot box testify Law & Lodge.
- Tarell Basham, National Football League outside linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys
In popular civilization [edit]
- Franklin Canton is the setting for Matt Bondurant'southward historical novel, The Wettest Canton in the World (2008) prepare in the Prohibition era, featuring his grandfather and two great-uncles among the bootleggers.
- Franklin County is featured in the picture Lawless (2012), adapted from the novel in a screenplay past Nick Cave. It is directed by John Hillcoat.
- Franklin County, and subsequently Smith Mountain Lake, was the setting for Touchstone Pictures 1991 picture "What Nigh Bob?". The comedy movie was directed by Frank Oz, and starred Beak Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. Murray plays Bob Wiley, a psychiatric patient who follows his egotistical psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin (Dreyfuss) on vacation. When the unstable Bob befriends the other members of Marvin'southward family, it pushes the doctor over the border.
- Franklin Canton is the setting for Rebecca Ore'southward novella, Conflicting Bootlegger.
See also [edit]
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Virginia
References [edit]
- ^ "Franklin County, Virginia". U.s. Census Bureau . Retrieved January 30, 2022.
- ^ "Find a Canton". National Clan of Counties. Archived from the original on May 31, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
- ^ "Home - Roanoke Regional Partnership". Roanoke Regional Partnership. Archived from the original on June 13, 2009. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
- ^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 131.
- ^ Paul Heinegg, Free African Americans in Virginia, North and Due south Carolina, Maryland and Delaware, 2005
- ^ "Making Illegal Liquor -- and profits -- in Appalachian Hills" Archived October 22, 2007, at the Wayback Auto, CNN, Baronial 28, 2000
- ^ America: The Story of Us, tv set documentary, 2010, The History Channel
- ^ a b c Moonshine - Blue Ridge Style Archived June 23, 2013, at the Wayback Car, Bluish Ridge Institute, accessed May 17, 2013
- ^ Review: "The Swell Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935 by T. Keister Greer", Blue Ridge Traditions Magazine, 2002, ISBN 0-9722355-1-five Magazine has closed downwards, referring to archive.org image instead.
- ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United states Census Bureau. February 12, 2011. Retrieved Apr 23, 2011.
- ^ "Demography of Population and Housing from 1790-2000". Usa Census Agency. Retrieved Jan 24, 2022.
- ^ "Historical Census Browser". University of Virginia Library. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
- ^ "Population of Counties by Decennial Demography: 1900 to 1990". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on Dec xv, 2013. Retrieved January ii, 2014.
- ^ "Demography 2000 PHC-T-four. Ranking Tables for Counties: 1990 and 2000" (PDF). U.s. Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on Dec eighteen, 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
- ^ a b "P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND Not HISPANIC OR LATINO Past RACE - 2010: Dec Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) - Franklin Canton, Virginia". United States Demography Bureau.
- ^ a b "P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE - 2020: Dec Redistricting Information (PL 94-171) - Franklin County, Virginia". United states of america Census Bureau.
- ^ "U.South. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May fourteen, 2011.
- ^ David Leip. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.Southward. Presidential Elections". Uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
External links [edit]
- Franklin Canton government official website
- Rocky Mount official website
- The Franklin News Post (Local News Newspaper)
Coordinates: 36°59′N 79°53′W / 36.99°N 79.88°W / 36.99; -79.88
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_County,_Virginia
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