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The Franklin County Courthouse in Winchester. Photo by See-Tennessee.com    The first white settlers entered Franklin County around 1800, settling near Cowan and Bean Creek. Davy Crockett was an early Franklin County settler, arriving around 1802 and settling on Rattlesnake Spring Creek, where he would later marry. Franklin County was created on December 3, 1807, by an act of the Tennessee General Assembly. In 1851, the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad was completed, passing through Franklin County and the Cumberland Mountains. Sewanee Mountain has been the home of the University of the South at Sewanee since 1868.

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