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COUNTY FORMATION

Franklin County was named in honor of Benjamin Franklin. It was created May 9, 1838, from portions of Kennebec, Oxford, and Somerset Counties, with the following bounds: The towns of New Sharon, Chesterville, Wilton, Temple and Farmington in Kennebec County; the towns of Jay, Carthage, Weld, Berlin, Madrid, and townships number six, letter E and D in Oxford County, thence extending northerly from the northwest corner of township D on the line between townships numbered three and four through the several ranges of townships to the Canada line, so as to include three tiers of townships west of the west line of the Bingham Purchase in Oxford County; and the towns of Industry, New Vineyard, Strong, Avon, Phillips, Freeman, Salem, Kingfield, the townships numbered four in the First range west of Kingfield, three and four in the second range and the south half of township number four in the third range of the Bingham Purchase in Somerset County. A small boundary change was made in 1847, when Franklin County gained a bit from Kennebec County.

Farmington is the County Seat.