To encourage people to move to the new settlement, Sullivant offered free land for anyone willing to build a house along Gift Street, near the eastern edge of his plat.

The population and town grew during the War of 1812, as Franklinton served as a staging point for General William Henry Harrison's Army of the Northwest.

Following the war, the community continued to grow with the expansion of the country's railway system along with the construction of a new state capital, Columbus, on the opposite side of the Scioto River.

[6] Franklinton quickly transformed from a farming based community to an urban society known for its railroad cars and horse-drawn buggies.

Franklinton experienced multiple minor floods, which ravaged the west side in 1798, 1832, 1834, 1847, 1852, 1859, 1860, 1862, 1866 (the river rose 12 feet that year), 1868, 1869, 1870, 1875, 1881, and 1883.

Though the speeches praised Lucas Sullivant's courage and hard work, many agreed that, in retrospect, the flood-prone area had been unfit for settlement.

Police officers in horse-drawn carriages traveled the flooded streets, warning residents to head to the higher ground of the adjacent Hilltop neighborhood.

Between March and August of that year, the company was contracted to extrude about 50 tons of uranium for the Hanford reactor, in the early stages of the U.S. nuclear weapons program during World War II.

The frozen ground throughout the area was partly responsible for the large volume and rapid rate of runoff of the heavy rain.

[15] From 1977 to 1985, the gay club Rudely Elegant operated on West Broad Street in Franklinton, in the art-deco Avondale Theatre.

It was operated by Corbett Reynolds, a leading figure in the city's LGBT community, and now stands as a Lev's pawn shop.

[17] In 1983, The Federal Emergency Management Agency determined almost all of Franklinton to be in a floodplain and at risk from a flood with a 1% chance of annual occurrence.

[11] As a community that participates in the National Flood Insurance Program, the City Council adopted an ordinance that restricted new construction in the area.

The inner belt construction of the 1960s removed several buildings along Sandusky Street, resulting in lowered property values and driving families out of East Franklinton.

[5] In addition to the land use and population changes that occurred, the inner belt formed a barrier which sealed off the side of East Franklinton that was not bordered by the Scioto River.

[19] The City of Columbus is focusing on creating a new Short North style neighborhood in Franklinton through developing an urban creative district.

The city government first designated the land as part of downtown in 1998, due to park improvements and COSI's establishment there at the time.

[20] The peninsula is defined by the Scioto River to the east, northeast, and southeast, and the easternmost set of Norfolk Southern railway tracks to the northwest, west, and southwest.

[20] The land, once primarily industrial, houses the National Veterans Memorial and Museum, the COSI science museum, the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad Station, a police station, the Lower Scioto Greenway, and the parks Genoa Park, Dorrian Green, and the Memorial Grove.

The nonprofit Community Shelter Board established the Scioto Peninsula Relocation Task Force to find stable housing and support services for these displaced residents.

Some sub-districts can contain a mix of residential, commercial, office, research, institutional or certain light industrial uses, even within the same building.

The Center of Science and Industry (COSI) and the National Veterans Memorial and Museum are among the major land users within this category.

[30] The City of Columbus has designated Franklinton as a Community Reinvestment Area that is "ready for opportunity", with available 15-year, 100 percent tax abatements for all projects, with no affordable housing requirements.

The CMHA is an organization which aims to help people who have difficulty in affording housing, as well as build healthy living environments for the community.

The Dodge Recreation Center and Sullivant Avenue provides various facilities such as athletic fields and swimming pools for the community.

Green Lawn Abbey was the largest with 654 crypts, one-and-a-half-thick walls, marble floors, a central chapel and foyer area and stained-glass windows.

The Gothic-style Holy Family Catholic Church was built following the land purchase of April 1, 1881, with the cornerstone being laid by Bishop of Columbus John Ambrose Watterson on September 17, 1882.

[28] Broad Street is the primary thoroughfare in Franklinton; other east–west avenues include McKinley, Town, Sullivant, and Mound.

Unlike Broad Street, it is a "4-2D" type arterial, in other words it is "four moving lanes, two way and a median divider on mainline sections".

In the episode, aired in 2005, Spurlock and his fiancé unsuccessfully attempt to live in Franklinton and work in the city on minimum wage.