Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Franklin, OH

Franklin is a city in Warren County on the banks of the Great Miami River, about 15 miles southwest of Dayton and roughly 33 miles northeast of Cincinnati, and its motto is 'Keep It Green.'

Franklin was founded in 1796 by General William C. Schenck and named in honor of Benjamin Franklin.

Franklin was incorporated as a town in 1814 and did not become a city until 1951.

Franklin's post office, established in 1805, was one of the first four post offices in Warren County, and the old Franklin Post Office is one of four sites in the city listed on the National Register of Historic Places, along with the Mackinaw Historic District.

The Miami and Erie Canal, built between 1825 and 1845, followed the river through Franklin and brought the town a pork slaughterhouse, a barrel factory, a sawmill and a whiskey distillery.

Franklin's first mayor, Dr. Absalom Death, was elected at a tavern meeting in 1837 - and remarkably, he was not the only Franklin physician of the era to carry the name Dr. Death.

Franklin earned a reputation for racehorse breeding in the 1850s, and its mare Nightingale set a three-mile harness-racing record of 6:55 1/2 in 1893.

A railroad depot arrived in Franklin in 1872, and paper became the town's signature industry - by 1890 Franklin had five paper mills.

The Great Flood of March 1913 devastated Franklin, as it did communities all along the Great Miami River.

In 1971 Franklin opened what was considered the world's first garbage-recycling plant, built by the Black Clawson Company.