Franklin — The Lost State
4 min readOct 24, 2020
The State that didn’t Survive in the U.S.A.
Long, long ago, in a place far away… there was a state called Franklin, but it was not to be.
The State of Franklin was an unrecognized territory in what is now Eastern Tennessee, in the United States. They created Franklin in 1784 from territory west of the Appalachian Mountains. North Carolina had offered the area to congress, to pay toward debts…
