[2] The Muscogee (Creek) people had long been cultivating lands in this area, producing crops of maize, squash and beans (the Three Sisters), and tobacco, used primarily for ritual purposes.

James McQueen, a Scots trader who lived here and married a Creek woman, was great-grandfather of Osceola.

[3] After the Creek were forced to cede their lands, European Americans developed the area for cotton cultivation.

They depended on the labor of enslaved African Americans, many of whom were initially transported to this region from the Upper South in the domestic slave trade.

After the school closed, the northern classroom was moved to its current location and converted to a community center.

A mile north of Town Hall lay the remnants of what is rumored to be the first school in Macon County.

In the segregated system of public facilities, the Barrett School was reserved for African-American students, who were mostly descendants of freedmen in this rural area.

Both the Barrett School and the Tuskegee Institute played a major role in education in the Franklin community.

Harris Barrett School was restored and is operated as a historic museum; it is located at the corner of Co. Rd.

The Town of Franklin is a mayor-council form of government with a mayor and 5 councilpersons which are elected every four years.

Mayor Henry Peavy, Mayor Pro-Temp David Clinkscales, Council Members Alvin Sears, Memphis Boston, Rheba Knoxx, Robert T. Perry Town Clerk/Treasurer Micha Segrest Chief of Police James Chris Johnson, Jr. Fire Chief Scott Cooper