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Benjamin Franklin was the namesake for
Franklin Parish, which was created in 1843. The
parish lies within Louisiana Cotton Country...visitors enjoy miles of landscape that blossoms
with the whiteness of a snowfall around harvest time. In fact, the earliest settlement came
about when a keelboat ran aground on Little Boeuf River. On board was a humdinger of a cotton
gin, able to produce four bales a day! Unable to get the boat off the sandbar, the boatmen
"made lemonade out of lemons" and founded a new settlement. The parish seat and largest town in
the parish is Winnsboro, located 20 miles south of Interstate 20. The town hosts an annual
Catfish Festival and a Fall Harvest Festival. Outdoor recreation is found in the Boeuf area and
on Turkey Creek Lake. The parish's quiet country roads with cattle grazing in bordering fields
are peaceful avenues into rural Louisiana.
For more information, contact:
Franklin Parish Tourist Commission: (318) 435-7607.
Credit:
Louisiana Office of Tourism.
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