History

Franklin, the county seat of Robertson County since 1879, a town of kind and friendly people, lies near the geographic center of the county, on an upland prairie that is drained by the branches of three creeks. Touchstone Branch, to the north, runs westward into Mud Creek; South Mineral Creek drains waters eastward to the Navasota River; and the forks of Cedar Creek run to the south, passing Mount Pleasant, Henry Prairie and Wheelock.

The town is located on Sesquehanna sandy loam that is surrounded by Norfolk sand and the Orangeburg gravelly sandy loam extending over the area. Throughout the farm and ranch section there are many streams with rich Meadow and Wilson soil. Franklin is a market center for the entire southeastern quarter of Robertson county, encompassing several rural communities and settlements.

Franklin came into existence in 1880; however, there was a small town, Morgan, at its present location a decade before, and the vicinity was considered a part of "Old Franklin" as early as 1838, when the wilderness village was the seat of a vast county under the Republic of Texas. The history of the community is interwoven in the story of early settlement in the Robertson Colony and there are residents of the town who trace their ancestry to families that came to the area before the Texas Revolution.