num_pages: 552
description: Providing rare facts in reviewing the past and present of the historic town of Franklin, Tennessee, this book is a comprehensive account of this small town of distinction. From the days of elephant-like mastodons to sad days of Civil War battles to today's efforts to fight the effects of urban sprawl, the book provides facts, figures, anecdotes, quotations, and illustrations. The City of Franklin commissioned Providence House Publishers and authors James A. Crutchfield and Robert Holladay to write this special book commemorating Franklin's bicentennial in 1999.
language: English
title: Franklin: Tennessee's Handsomest Town, a Bicentennial History, 1799-1999
titlecomplete: Franklin: Tennessee's Handsomest Town, a Bicentennial History, 1799-1999
genres: History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Hillsboro Pr