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FRANKFORT 



loud, shrill cries may be heard in all directions. 

 Their diet consists of insects, berries, seeds and 

 bulbs. Their nests are well concealed and 

 resemble those of the partridges. Six to four- 

 teen eggs are laid in the autumn and spring; 

 these are brown and buff in color, with small, 

 dark spots. Francolins once abounded in 

 Southern Europe, but are now extinct there. 



FRANKFORT, IND., the county seat of Clin- 

 ton County, is situated north and west of the 

 center of the state, twenty-four miles south- 

 east of Lafayette and forty-seven miles north- 

 west of Indianapolis. It is on Prairie Creek 

 and on the Vandalia; the Lake Erie & West- 

 ern; the Toledo, Saint Louis & Western 

 (Clover Leaf), and the Chicago, Indianapolis 

 & Louisville railroads. It has two interurban 

 lines, one extending to Lafayette, the other to 

 Indianapolis. The area of the city is about 

 three square miles. The population in 1910 

 was 8,634; in 1916 it was 9,596, by Federal esti- 

 mate. 



Among the more prominent structures are 

 a $200,000 courthouse; a Federal building, 

 erected in 1914 at a cost of $80,000; the home 

 office of the People's Life Insurance Com- 

 pany; an opera house, Masonic Temple, Elks 

 Home and a Carnegie Library. The public 

 park of eighty-three acres contains a golf 

 course, baseball grounds, tennis court, zoo, 

 swimming pool and playground equipment. 



The city contains a number of large grain 

 elevators, and is an important grain market. 

 The wholesale business amounts to nearly 

 $1,500,000 annually. Among a number of 

 wholesale houses are. those handling meat, 

 fruit and vegetables, poultry, confectionery 

 and barber supplies. Broom and handle fac- 

 tories, planing and saw mills, two electrically- 

 equipped flour mills, a large creamery plant 

 with an annual output of 2,700,000 pounds of 

 butter, a kitchen cabinet factory, stove and 

 furnace and canning factories and an artificial 

 ice and refrigeration plant are the important 

 commercial enterprises. The Clover Leaf rail- 

 road shops are located here. Frankfort was 

 founded in 1830 and chartered as a city in 

 1875. F.R. 



FRANK 'FORT, KY., the state capital and 

 the county seat of Franklin County, is twenty- 

 nine miles northwest of Lexington, fifty-five 

 miles east of Louisville and ninety-three miles 

 south of Cincinnati. It is on the Kentucky 

 River, and on the Louisville & Nashville, the 

 Chesapeake & Ohio and the Frankfort & Cin- 

 cinnati railroads. It is also served by an in- 



terurban line, and there is steamboat com- 

 munication with Cincinnati, Louisville and 

 other river ports. The area of the city is 

 nearly ten square miles. The population was 

 10,465 in 1910, and 11,080 in 1916, by a Federal 

 estimate. 



Special Features. Frankfort is built upon 

 low rolling hills on both sides of the river, 

 which is crossed by a suspension bridge 700 

 feet long. The surrounding country is the fa- 

 mous Blue Grass region of Kentucky. The 

 city contains a number of beautiful buildings, 

 the most prominent of which is the new Capi- 

 tol, erected at a cost of $2,000,000. It is con- 

 structed of granite and white limestone, in the 

 Italian Renaissance style. In it are housed 

 the state library and the library of the Ken- 

 tucky State Historical Society, in whose rooms 

 are some valuable works of art. The old Cap- 

 itol, first occupied in 1829, is still standing, and 

 is a noteworthy specimen of early American 

 architecture. Other prominent structures are 

 the Federal building, erected in 1883 at a cost 

 of $180,000, and recently enlarged at a cost 

 of $125,000; the governor's mansion, state ar- 

 senal, Y. M. C. A. and public library. Here 

 also are located a state normal for colored 

 people, the state home for feeble-minded chil- 

 dren and the state penitentiary. Glenwood 

 Park and the grounds surrounding the new 

 Capitol together contain about sixty acres. 



Franklin (state) Cemetery, beautifully sit- 

 uated on a hill near the city, is an interest- 

 ing historical burying ground. In it lie the 

 remains of Daniel Boone and his wife, Vice- 

 President Richard M. Johnson, the sculptor 

 Joel T. Hart, the poet Theodore O'Hara, who 

 wrote. The Bivouac of the Dead, twelve gov- 

 ernors of Kentucky, nine United States Sena- 

 tors, four ministers to foreign countries and 

 three United States district judges. 



Industries. The varied industries of Frank- 

 fort include manufactures of lumber, flour, 

 shoes, chairs, tobacco, twine, whisky, brooms 

 and other commodities. There are canning 

 factories and two reel factories. Water power 

 is furnished by a lock and dam across the 

 river. Hemp and tobacco are extensively 

 raised about Frankfort, and the city has a 

 large wholesale trade in these and other prod- 

 ucts. 



History. Frankfort was founded in 1786 by 

 General James Wilkinson, who made the set- 

 tlement the base of his trading operations and 

 intrigues with the Spanish at New Orleans. It 

 became the state capital in 1792. J.O.L. 



