April 9, 2011

Of the seventy-five counties in Arkansas, several have been named in honor of patriots of the American Revolution. On December 19, 1837, the young state legislature named the newest county then to be created in honor of author, inventor, and patriot Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania.

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