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Franklinton is a town in and the parish seat of Washington Parish, Louisiana, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The population was 3,657 at the 2000 census. It is an average of above sea level. Located north of New Orleans, the town's name is pronounced locally as "Frank-lin-ton". Franklinton is part of the Bogalusa Micropolitan Statistical Area. A Franklinton physician, Jerry Thomas, represented Washington Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1988–1999 and then served from 1999-2004 in the District 12 seat in the state senate, having succeeded Phil Short of Covington, who resigned. Dr. Thomas was the Washington Parish coroner from 1980-1988. == History == Franklinton was founded in 1819, originally under the name of Franklin, but in 1826 the name was changed to Franklinton since there was already another town with the same name in St. Mary Parish. In 1826, representatives and citizens from both communities showed up in then-state-capital New Orleans to state their cases for keeping the name "Franklin." A compromise was reached by the legislature, allowing Franklin in St. Mary Parish to retain its name, while Washington Parish's seat would be known as Franklinton. Franklinton became the seat of government on February 10, 1821, two years after the parish was carved out from St. Tammany Parish. Much of Franklinton, as well as most of Washington Parish, sustained damage from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Franklinton, Louisiana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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