Franklin, Virginia

Franklin, Virginia Downtown Franklin, Virginia (photographed by Taber Andrew Bain) Downtown Franklin, Virginia (photographed by Taber Andrew Bain) Official seal of Franklin, Virginia Franklin is an autonomous town/city in Virginia, in the United States.

As of the 2010 census, the populace was 8,582. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the town/city of Franklin with Southampton County for statistical purposes.

The town/city of Franklin had its beginnings in the 1830s as a barns stop along the Blackwater River.

A historic sign in downtown Franklin with knowledge on the Civil War and Union Camp In 1862, the Civil War came to Franklin, in what was alluded to as the Joint Expedition against Franklin. As a several U.S.

Navy flag steamships, led by the USS Commodore Perry, tried to pass through Franklin on the Blackwater River, a band of small-town Confederates opened fire on the ships.

The sawmill was small and had been operating for a several years alongside the Blackwater River:2 With the Camp family's acquisition of the mill, it experienced 20 years of rapid expansion under the leadership of Paul Douglas Camp (president), James Leonidas Camp (vice-president) and Robert Judson Camp (secretary-treasurer).

At the end of this period, after a bout with near-bankruptcy, World War I brought the Camp family back to financial success, bringing along with it the town/city of Franklin.

By 1955, the Camp Corporation's annual revenue reached $28 million, much of which they spread throughout the town/city of Franklin.

The Camp family, with a strong sense of family and community, gave much back to the town/city of Franklin through above average wages and generous donations to small-town causes.:3 On May 29, 1956, the inhabitants of Franklin were informed that the Local Camp Manufacturing Corporation had just negotiated a consolidation with the Union Bag and Paper business operating out of New York.

The town/city continued to expanded along with Union Camp, and was incorporated as an autonomous town/city in 1961, separating from Southampton County.

Union Camp thrived in Franklin until 1999 when it was acquired by International Paper.

Although Union Camp no longer exists in Franklin, the Camp family name lives on.

Camp Community College, the James L Camp Jr.

YMCA, the Texie Camp Marks Children's Center, and the Ruth Camp Campbell Memorial Library.

Modern Franklin has two primary industrial sectors: agriculture and manufacturing. Franklin is listed as being the 13th-most profitable and 12th-largest farming improve in the state. The neighboring areas of Southampton and Isle of Wight counties, along with the town/city of Suffolk, are all ranked in the 20 most profitable farming counties, with Southampton County being the eighth-largest in the state. With the high agricultural profile of Franklin and the encircling areas, it was only with the opening of the Camp Lumber Mill in 1887 that the manufacturing zone began to expand.

The Camp Lumber Mill became the Union Camp Corporation, which was eventually bought by International Paper. Today, the International Paper mill, positioned on the easterly boundary of the city, beside the Blackwater River, produces lumber, pulp and paper products and other chemical by-products.

Flooding in Franklin after Hurricane Floyd Franklin is positioned in southeastern Virginia at 36 40 29 N 76 55 50 W (36.674954, -76.930799).

Route 58 (Southampton Parkway) follows the southern border of the city, dominant east 21 miles (34 km) to Suffolk and 42 miles (68 km) to Norfolk.

Route 258 passes through the center of Franklin as East Second Avenue, South Main Street, and South Street; US 258 leads northeast 15 miles (24 km) to Windsor, Virginia, and southwest 21 miles (34 km) to Murfreesboro, North Carolina.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city of Franklin has a total region of 8.3 square miles (21.5 km2), of which 8.2 square miles (21.2 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km2) (1.7%) is water. Southampton County, Virginia (north, west, and south) Age distribution in Franklin Flood level marker in downtown Franklin The Blackwater River, running along the easterly boundary of the city, played an meaningful part in the industrialization of the city, but has not been immune to enigma plaguing rivers, most prominently flooding.

In 1999, in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd, downtown Franklin was submerged under as much as 12 feet (3.7 m) of water as the Blackwater River swelled to a historic crest of 26.4 feet (8.0 m). The resultant flooding caused the submersion of 182 company and 150 homes, positioned primarily in downtown. When the hurricane name "Floyd" was retired in 2000, the name chosen as a replacement was Franklin.

In 2006, Franklin railroadanother large-scale flood reaching just below the record 23-foot (7.0 m) water line set from the 1999 flood. The flood was the result of a storm which distributed a large amount of water throughout the watershed in which Franklin resides.

The Franklin Airport sign with the International Paper papermill in the background These are all places that furnish education at some level in the region of Franklin.

Franklin High School Franklin High School is home to the 2004 and 2008 VHSL Division 1 - A State Football Champions.

Franklin City Schools is home to First Robotics team 1610 who were winners of the First Robotics Nasa/VCU county-wide robotics competition in 2006 and The First Robotics Virginia county-wide competition in 2013, 2014, and 2015.

Downtown Franklin Association / Visitor's Center Franklin Business Center According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Franklin has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. National Register of Historic Places in Franklin, Virginia "City of Franklin, Virginia".

City of Franklin.

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