List of places named for Benjamin Franklin
There are many places and institutions named for Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. These include counties, municipalities (that is, towns and cities), geologic features, colleges and universities, high schools, middle schools, elementary schools, businesses, transportation ways, and a proposed U.S. state.
Territories
- State of Franklin, a defunct state located in what is now northeastern Tennessee near present-day Elizabethton, Tennessee.
Counties
24 Counties and Parishes in the United States are named for Benjamin Franklin.
- Franklin County, Alabama
- Franklin County, Arkansas
- Franklin County, Florida
- Franklin County, Georgia
- Franklin County, Illinois
- Franklin County, Indiana
- Franklin County, Iowa
- Franklin County, Kansas
- Franklin County, Kentucky
- Franklin Parish, Louisiana
- Franklin County, Maine
- Franklin County, Massachusetts
- Franklin County, Mississippi
- Franklin County, Missouri
- Franklin County, Nebraska
- Franklin County, New York
- Franklin County, North Carolina
- Franklin County, Ohio
- Franklin County, Pennsylvania
- Franklin County, Tennessee
- Franklin County, Vermont
- Franklin County, Virginia
- Franklin County, Washington
Municipalities
Geologic features
- Mount Franklin, in New Hampshire's White Mountains
- Franklin Mountains, El Paso, Texas
- Franklin Mountains, northern Alaska
- Benjamin Franklin Lake, Mt Juliet, Tennessee
Schools
Colleges and universities
- Franklin College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, established 1787; now Franklin and Marshall College
- Franklin College, in Franklin, Indiana
- Franklin College, a residential college at Yale University
- Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia (in its earliest days, before the university contained multiple colleges, the entire institution was referred to as Franklin)
- Franklin University, in Columbus, Ohio
- Campus Benjamin Franklin, a part of the Charité, Berlin, Germany
- Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts
- Franklin University Switzerland in Lugano, Switzerland
Elementary, middle, and high schools
High schools
- Franklin High School (Elk Grove, California)
- Franklin High School (Los Angeles, California)
- Franklin High School (Stockton, California)
- Franklin County High School, (Rocky Mount, VA)
- Franklin Central High School, (Indianapolis, Indiana)
- Franklin Senior High School, (Franklin, Louisiana)
- Benjamin Franklin High School (New Orleans, Louisiana)
- Franklin High School (Reisterstown, Maryland)
- Franklin High School (Massachusetts)
- Franklin High School (Livonia, Michigan)
- Franklin High School (New Hampshire)
- Franklin High School (New Jersey)
- Benjamin Franklin High School (Rochester, New York)
- Felicity-Franklin High School (Felicity, Ohio)
- Franklin High School (Franklin, Ohio)
- Franklin High School (Portland, Oregon)
- Benjamin Franklin High School (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Franklin Learning Center, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Franklin Towne Charter High School, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Franklin High School (Tennessee)
- Franklin High School (El Paso, Texas)
- Franklin High School (Virginia)
- Franklin High School (Seattle, Washington)
- Franklin High School (Franklin, Wisconsin)
- Benjamin Franklin High School (Queen Creek, Arizona)
Middle schools
- Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Vallejo, California
- Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Valparaiso, Indiana
- Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Ridgewood, New Jersey
- Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Teaneck, New Jersey
- Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Tonawanda, New York
- Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Fargo, North Dakota
- Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Rocky Mount, Virginia – see also Franklin County High School (Rocky Mount, Virginia) (above)
- Franklin Middle School, Reisterstown, Maryland – see also Franklin High School (Reisterstown, Maryland) (above)
- Franklin Middle School, (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
- Franklin Middle School, Janesville, Wisconsin
- Franklin Middle School, Fairfax County, Virginia
Elementary schools
- Franklin Elementary School, Franklin, Connecticut
- Franklin Elementary School, Janesville, Wisconsin
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Glendale, California
- Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Rocky Mount, Virginia
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Miami, Florida
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary School Terre Haute, Indiana
- Franklin Elementary School, Reisterstown, Maryland – see also Franklin High School (Reisterstown, Maryland) (above)
- Franklin Elementary, Rochester, Minnesota
- Franklin Elementary School, Roxbury, New Jersey
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Keene, New Hampshire
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
- Franklin Elementary School, Summit, New Jersey
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Binghamton, New York
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Yorktown Heights, New York
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Grand Forks, North Dakota
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Benjamin Franklin International School Barcelona
- Ben Franklin Kindergarten Center, Dupont, Pennsylvania
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Kirkland, Washington
- Franklin Elementary School, Wausau, Wisconsin
Businesses
- Ben Franklin five and dime stores
- Franklin Mills Mall (now Philadelphia Mills Mall)
- Franklin Templeton Investments
- Benjamin Franklin Plumbing
- FranklinCovey's corporate campus in Salt Lake City
Transportation
- Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Franklin Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- U.S. Route 422 in Pennsylvania is named the Benjamin Franklin Highway
- Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland
- Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts
- Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Franklin Street, Portland, Maine
- Franklin Street, Richmond, Virginia
Other
- Benjamin Franklin Centre, the student centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
- The Franklin crater on the Moon
- Franklin Field, the football stadium at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- The Franklin Inn Club, one of the four historic gentlemen's clubs in Philadelphia's Center City and was the first to open membership to women in Philadelphia.
- Franklin Institute, a major science museum in Philadelphia, which includes a Planetarium
- Franklin Park, Boston
- Franklin Park Conservatory
- First Battle of Franklin, an American Civil War battle
- Second Battle of Franklin, an American Civil War battle
- Several ships named USS Franklin
See also
- Franklin (disambiguation)
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United States
- Join, or Die. (1754 political cartoon)
- Albany Plan of Union
- Hutchinson letters affair
- Committee of Secret Correspondence
- Committee of Five
- Declaration of Independence
- Model Treaty
- Franco-American alliance
- Treaty of Amity and Commerce
- Treaty of Alliance
- Staten Island Peace Conference
- 1776 Pennsylvania Constitution
- Libertas Americana
- Treaty of Paris, 1783
- Delegate, 1787 Constitutional Convention
- Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly
- Postmaster General
- Founding Fathers
other events
- Franklin's electrostatic machine
- Bifocals
- Franklin stove
- Glass armonica
- Gulf Stream exploration, naming, and chart
- Lightning rod
- Kite experiment
- Pay it forward
- Associators
- 111th Infantry Regiment
- Junto club
- American Philosophical Society
- Library Company of Philadelphia
- Pennsylvania Hospital
- Academy and College of Philadelphia
- Philadelphia Contributionship
- Union Fire Company
- Early American currency
- Continental Currency dollar coin
- Fugio cent
- United States Postal Service
- Street lighting
- President, Pennsylvania Abolition Society
- Master, Les Neuf Sœurs
- Gravesite
- The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
- Founders Online
- Silence Dogood letters (1722)
- A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain (1725)
- The Busy-Body columns (1729)
- The Pennsylvania Gazette (1729–1790)
- Early American publishers and printers
- Poor Richard's Almanack (1732–1758)
- The Drinker's Dictionary (1737)
- "Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress" (1745)
- "The Speech of Polly Baker" (1747)
- Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc. (1751)
- Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1751)
- Birch letters (1755)
- The Way to Wealth (1758)
- Pennsylvania Chronicle (1767)
- Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One (1773)
- Proposed alliance with the Iroquois (1775)
- A Letter to a Royal Academy (1781)
- Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America (1784)
- "The Morals of Chess" (1786)
- An Address to the Public (1789)
- A Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks (1789)
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771–1790, pub. 1791)
- Bagatelles and Satires (pub. 1845)
- Franklin as a journalist
- Franklin's phonetic alphabet
- Bibliography
- Franklin Court
- Benjamin Franklin House
- Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
- Benjamin Franklin Parkway
- Benjamin Franklin National Memorial
- Franklin Institute
- Benjamin Franklin Medal
- Royal Society of Arts medal
- Depicted in The Apotheosis of Washington
- Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence
- Treaty of Paris (1783 painting)
- Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky (1816 painting)
- Revolutionary War Door
- Boston statue
- Chicago statue
- Columbus, Ohio, statue
- University of Pennsylvania statue
- Portland, Oregon, statue
- San Francisco statue
- Stanford University statue
- Washington D.C. statue
- Jefferson Memorial pediment
- Refunding Certificate
- Franklin half dollar
- One-hundred-dollar bill
- Franklin silver dollar
- Washington–Franklin stamps
- other stamps
- Cities, counties, schools named for Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin College
- Franklin Field
- Mount Franklin
- State of Franklin
- Sons of Ben (Philadelphia Union)
- Ships named USS Franklin
- Ben Franklin effect
- Ben and Me (1953 short)
- Ben Franklin in Paris (1964 musical play)
- 1776 (1969 musical
- 1972 film)
- Benjamin Franklin (miniseries) (1972)
- A More Perfect Union (1989 film)
- Liberty! (1997 documentary series)
- Liberty's Kids (2002 animated series)
- Benjamin Franklin (2002 documentary series)
- John Adams (2008 miniseries)
- Sons of Liberty (2015 miniseries)
- Benjamin Franklin (2022 documentary)
- Franklin (2024 miniseries)
- Age of Enlightenment
- American Enlightenment
- The New-England Courant
- The American Museum magazine
- American Revolution
- patriots
- Syng inkstand
- Deborah Read (wife)
- William Franklin (son)
- Francis Franklin (son)
- Sarah Franklin Bache (daughter)
- William Franklin (grandson)
- Benjamin F. Bache (grandson)
- Louis F. Bache (grandson)
- Richard Bache Jr. (grandson)
- Andrew Harwood (great-grandson)
- Alexander Bache (great-grandson)
- Josiah Franklin (father)
- James Franklin (brother)
- Jane Mecom (sister)
- Mary Morrell Folger (grandmother)
- Peter Folger (grandfather)
- Richard Bache (son-in-law)
- Ann Smith Franklin (sister-in-law)
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References
- ^ "Town of Franklin - Franklin Massachusetts", 08 March 2016, Retrieved on 03 August 2016.