Franklin, KS

Franklin is a census-designated place in Crawford County, Kansas, United States. The 2020 census counted 473 residents. Franklin began as a mining community in the early 1900s. Opened on May 1, 2012, the Miner's Hall Museum was established to preserve and present authentic materials and artifacts that document the history of coal mining and its impact on Southeast Kansas. One exhibit is of the "Amazon Army", a 1921 protest in which thousands of wives, daughters, mothers, sisters and sweethearts of striking coal miners halted work in the mines for three days. The short version is that Franklin carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Franklin: its past remains attached to the places people use now.