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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:53:00 LCL
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- From: KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL
- Subject: Re: The State of Franklin
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- Jim Freed asked me:
- >Rick, can you give the net a little history of the "pseudo-state of
- >Franklin". Seems like I heard of it years and years ago, but cannot
- >recall anything about it..... What was its boundaries and during what
- >years did it "exist"?
- >Thanks.
- >Jim Freed
-
- Well, I'm definitely no expert on this subject, but this is what I know:
- In the years before Tennessee became a state, it was part of North Carolina.
- The major "city" was Sevierville. The inhabitants felt that they weren't
- getting their fair share of recognition from the North Carolina state
- government, so a convention was held at Sevierville (I think) to form a state
- from that part of North Carolina which is now the eastern portion of
- Tennessee. The convention named the state as Franklin, after Benjamin
- Franklin, but it was never recognized as an official state by either the US
- Congress or by the state of North Carolina.
-
- Eventually, the state of Tennessee was formed from all of western North
- Carolina.
-
- I don't know the boundaries of the "state", nor the year(s) in which it
- existed. Any historians with more info?
-
- Thanks for the interest, Jim.
-
- Rick Kitchen
- kitchenrn@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
-