![]() At the formation of Portage County in 1807, Franklin Township included what would become Brimfield, Charlestown, Ravenna, and Rootstown townships. The following year, the township was surveyed into individual lots. The area under the Franklin Township name included all of present-day Portage County and much of present-day Summit County as well as parts of present-day Trumbull County. 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 km2) 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. 1790-1940 Archives.Name and HistorySee also: History of Kent, Ohio 1950 United States Federal Census MyHeritageġ950 United States Federal Census AncestryĬensus of Portage County, Ohio, 1850 FamilySearch LibraryĮnumeration of the white male inhabitants over the age of twenty-one years residing in the County of Portage, Ohio on the first day of May AD 1847 FamilySearch Libraryįederal Census of 1940, Bootstown Township, Ohio LDS Genealogyįederal Census of 1940, Winborn, Ohio LDS Genealogyįederal Population Census of the U.S.
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