Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Frankston, TX

Frankston was founded in January 1902 when the Texas and New Orleans Railroad was built through far northeastern Anderson County, and most of its first residents moved there from the older settlement of Kickapoo, two miles to the southeast on an old Indian battleground site.

According to the town's most accepted account, Frankston was named for Frankie Miller, a young woman who donated the land for the downtown city park; the original Main Street is still called Miller Street.

The town was first called Ayers before being renamed Frankston, and its old railroad depot — the line was abandoned in the mid-1980s — now serves as Frankston's public library.

The 2020 census counted 1,126 people in Frankston living in 456 households, and the town has hovered between roughly 950 and 1,500 residents since 1925.

Frankston sits at the junction of U.S. Highway 175 and State Highway 155, within about 25 miles of Tyler, Jacksonville, Palestine, and Athens, near the shores of Lake Palestine.

The Frankston Independent School District has long been one of the town's largest employers, and its City Hall also houses an annex of the Anderson County sheriff's department plus a county subcourthouse on the downtown square.

Frankston has a humid subtropical climate typical of the East Texas Piney Woods, with hot, humid summers and mild winters.

ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard is a Frankston native, as is Herbert H. Reynolds, who served as the 11th president of Baylor University.