IAGenWeb Franklin County

Welcome to Franklin County, Iowa!
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Franklin County was created in 1851 from Chickasaw County.

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Biographies	Local History
1883 Franklin County History - Index to Biographies	Iowa Communities - Past and Present
1914 Franklin County History - Biographies Transcribed	Hampton City Directory 1902 - Select Pages Below
	3-11 12-20 21-29 30-37 38-45 46-54 55-63 64-72 73-76
	1934-1935 Burdette School Reunion Notes
Pictures (Check out the pictures in the Hampton City Directory too!)
People - Names beginning with: A C G H M P R S T V	Military
Places	Civil War - Volunteers from Franklin County
Groups	Civil War - Link to IAGenWeb Special Project Iowa in the Civil War
Unknown People, Places	WW I - List of Missing and Dead
	WW I - Pictures
Cemeteries	WW I - Link to IAGenWeb Special Project Iowa in the Great War
Cemetery Locations
Link to IAGenWeb Gravestone Photo Project, Franklin County	Research Aids
Link to IAGenWeb WPA Graves Registration Project	Franklin County Families and Submissions (Got research? Email me!)
Link to State Association for the Preservation of Cemeteries	Franklin County Surnames
	Link to Town/County Search
Link to Maysville Area Cemeteries (offsite)	Lookup Volunteers
	Where to find Franklin County Records
Marriages	Subscribe to Franklin County Email List
A Few Marriages	Libraries, Museums and Societies
	Quick Guide to Vital Records Held by Iowa Counties
Census	Link to IAGenWeb Iowa History Special Project
1856 IA State Census for Morgan, Reeve, and Washington Twps	Link to USGenWeb Archives including Iowa and Franklin County
1860 US Census - Selected Records from Franklin County	Links to Other Sites with Franklin County Family Connections
1880 US Census - Link to Family Search (LDS Site)
Link to IAGenWeb State Census Special Project	Newspapers
	Link to IAGenWeb Iowa Old Press Special Project
Maps
Franklin County Towns and Maps	Misc
Standard Atlas of Franklin County Iowa Including Plat Maps - 1908	Birthday Postcards from 1912

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Background and graphics courtesy of Eos development

The panoramic picture of Hampton taken in 1907 is courtesy of the Library of Congress digital collection. Thanks also to Scott McIntyre of the Iowa Hospital Association for pointing me to this resource.

The picture may be found at the following url:

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?pp/ils:@FILREQ(@field(SUBJ+@od1(United+States--Iowa--Hampton+))+@FIELD(COLLID+pan))

You may get a copy of the picture in JPG format or in uncompressed TIFF (very large, 6 mb)