Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Franklin, PA

Franklin is a city and the county seat of Venango County, Pennsylvania, set at the confluence of French Creek and the Allegheny River in the state's northwest.

The site stood on the Native American Venango Path, a trail linking French Creek with Presque Isle Bay on Lake Erie, and the Lenape village of Venango stood here.

In 1740 the Scottish fur trader John Fraser built a trading post at Venango, the British erected Fort Venango in 1760, and after the French and Indian War a new Fort Franklin was built and named in honor of Benjamin Franklin.

In 1787 Andrew Ellicott, who later helped survey Washington, D.C., was hired to lay out the town of Franklin.

Franklin boomed as an oil town after petroleum was discovered near nearby Titusville in 1859, and when the oil industry moved west the city reinvented itself around machinery manufacturing.

Franklin was incorporated as a city in 1868.

In 1863 a young John Wilkes Booth — two years before he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln — formed an oil company in Franklin and lived in the city while performing at the Franklin Opera House.

Franklin is known for Applefest, a three-day autumn festival held each October that draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to the small city.

Franklin had 6,077 residents in the 2020 census and is part of the Oil City micropolitan area.