| | Franklin County, Tennessee Genealogical Records Information |
 | | The society is presently located on the historic Davies Plantation at Brunswick, TN., near Memphis, with headquarters in the Davieshire Library. |
| | In 1854 Vernon K. Stephenson transformed the county when he built his Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad through Decherd, tunneling the Cumberland Plateau between Cowan and Sherwood and dipping into Alabama to join the Western and Atlantic into Georgia and the East Tennessee and Georgia to the northeast. |
| | In the 1870s Franklin County experienced a period of agrarian unrest which led to the organization of granges, or units of the Patrons of Husbandry. |
| www.mytennesseegenealogy.com /tn_county/fr.htm (1732 words) |
