It contained 200-300 buildings, including five stores, a tobacco factory, two academies, a market house, several churches, four warehouses, a jail, and a public library. Within four years of being founded, the town had a public square of two acres and streets 87 feet wide. ![]() In 1819, the Missouri Intelligencer and Boonslick Advertiser became the first newspaper printed west of the Mississippi River. ![]() Named for Benjamin Franklin, the town was about a half mile west of the Boonville Bridge on present-day Missouri Highway 87.įranklin became the county seat of Howard County in 1817, but its first post office would not be established until 1821. The first settlement to be established in Howard County was Franklin in 1816. This town, at present increasing more rapidly than any other on the Missouri River, contained 120 log houses, 13 shops for the sale of merchandise, four taverns, two smith’s shops, two large steam mills, a court house, a log prison, a post office, and printing press issuing a weekly paper.įranklin, Missouri, was the starting point for the first Santa Fe caravan of pack mules led by Captain William Becknell in 1821.Īfter the War of 1812, the Boone’s Lick Trail was blazed, and emigration into central Missouri was quick. Old Franklin, Missouri townsite by Kathy Alexander.
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