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A Short History of the Town of Franklin, New York
by Richard de Frances (Page Five)
The 1835-36 years found some long term changes beginning. A new well-engineered road between Franklin and Oneonta was
organinzed and financed through the sale of $25 shares in the Franklin & Oneonta Turnpike Company. The village of Franklin
became the town population center, especially after John Edgerton's purchase of 100 acres and subsequent street and lot
layouts in 1827. In 1836, the village became incorporated. Education had its beginning in town with a schoolhouse in Bartlett Hollow.
By 1840, there were 25 school districts in Franklin. Many Franklinites felt that additional schooling was needed. Accordingly, a grant
of incorporation for an institution of learning called the Delaware Literary Institute was approved by the state legislature in 1835.
In time, three large buildings - Stone, Ladies, and Chapel Halls were built with financing by Franklin's citizens. Local students
and others from different states paid tuition at this well-received school. The Civil War and growing tax support for public schools
brought about a decline in attendance, with the eventual decision to deed all of D.L.I.'s facilities to District 10. With centralization
in 1929, the Franklin Central School was created. The following year voters authorized the official name of the school to be Delaware Literary
Institute and Franklin Central School, thus preserving part of the past.
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