In 1802, much of the original Trumbull County, which covered the entire Western Reserve, was organized under the name of Franklin Township. It is one of twenty-one Franklin Townships statewide. Aaron Olmstead of East Hartford, Connecticut purchased this township at a cost of 12.5 cents an acre and named it for his son Aaron Franklin Olmstead. The original survey township was known as Town 3 Range 9 and contained 25 square miles (65 km 2) and 16,000 acres (6,500 ha) of land. In 1796 the area was surveyed by the Connecticut Land Company as part of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Captain Samuel Brady crossed the area around 1780 as part of his campaigns against an unknown tribe, escaping by leaping the Cuyahoga River in present-day downtown Kent and hiding in Brady Lake. The area that makes up Franklin Township was originally inhabited by a number of American Indian tribes including the Mound Builders who built a burial mound in the eastern part of the township sometime during the 1st century in what would become Towners Woods Park. Standing Rock, located in the Cuyahoga River in what is now northern Kent, was an important landmark for Native American tribes in the area. Today Franklin Township is a mostly rural area largely associated with the neighboring city of Kent as the two share a common history, public school district, ZIP code, and fire department. It was first settled in 1805 by John Haymaker and its government structure, which consists of three township trustees, was established in 1815.
The township was named by Aaron Olmsted after his son Aaron Franklin Olmsted.
It was one of the first civil townships organized in the Western Reserve and initially covered a large area. The township is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area and the larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area.įranklin Township was originally surveyed as Town 3 Range 9 as part of the Connecticut Western Reserve and was purchased by Aaron Olmsted in 1798. The 2000 census found 5,276 people in the township. It is located along the Cuyahoga River in Northeast Ohio on the western edge of the county.
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