Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about West Franklin came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of West Franklin in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about West Franklin. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our West Franklin data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for West Franklin:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

Map from 1908 (unknown title/publisher)

West Franklin is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for West Franklin. See our Misc Page for West Franklin for more information.