Eldest of the seven, Benjamin Franklin, a New Englander transplanted to Philadelphia, wrote the most dazzling success story in our history.

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin ( 2005 ), influential intellectual history by leading historian.

* Guide to Benjamin Franklin By a history professor at the University of Illinois.

* 1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement ; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.

Although the White House grounds have had many gardeners through their history, the general design, still largely used as master plan today, was designed in 1935 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. of the Olmsted Brothers firm, under commission from President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

* September 16 – WWII: The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 is signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt, creating the first peacetime draft in U. S. history.

H. Bruce Franklin ’ s most recent book, The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America is an interdisciplinary study of the role of menhaden in American environmental, economic, social, political, and cultural history from the seventeenth into the twenty-first centuries.

Read and Listen to the Oral history of Franklin County in the late 19th early 20th Centuries

* Franklin County history pages

* Oral History of Franklin County Listen to and read the history of Franklin County NY in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries

* Oral history interview with Franklin Johnson, whose first combat experience was on Omaha Beach from the Veterans History Project at Central Connecticut State University

; Simon Franklin ( professor, Great Britain ): for outstanding achievements in research in Russian history and culture.

In school Gotti had a history of truancy and bullying other students and ultimately dropped out, while attending Franklin K. Lane High School, at the age of 16.

Her family was actively involved with a Working Men's College, where Ellis Franklin, her father, taught electricity, magnetism, and the history of the Great War in the evenings and later became the vice-principal.

Carbon County has a rich history, some interesting people have passed through her mountains, including Count Zinzendorf, Moravian mystic ; John James Audubon, Benjamin Franklin and many more.

African American history tours are transforming the historic Franklin Street School into a Community Cultural Center.

* Early Town of Franklin history

The town was the capital of the short-lived State of Franklin in the 18th-century history of the Tennessee region.

Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, visited the village early in its history.

Co-ordination between environmentalist groups occurred in the 1980s with various protests including one of the most significant environmental campaigns in Australian history against the proposed damming of the Franklin River and the subsequent flooding of Lake Pedder.

The alternate history novel begins with the premise that Zangara succeeded in assassinating Franklin D. Roosevelt, using this historical event as its point of divergence.

Category: Military history of County Londonderry

The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.

Approximately 75 % of the island's population is located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality ( CBRM ) which includes all of Cape Breton County and is often referred to as Industrial Cape Breton, given the history of coal mining and steel manufacturing in this area.

– The Fermanagh story: a documented history of the County Fermanagh from the earliest times to the present day – Enniskillen: Cumann Seanchais Chlochair, 1969.

Rohrabacher has a long history in Orange County.

Category: Natural history of Kern County, California

* 1910 – The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.

* 1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.

Naison ( 2005 ) describes the Bronx African American History Project, an oral community history project developed by the Bronx County Historical Society.

Old Cornish Inns and their place in the social history of the County.

* Millard, Alfred L., Early history of Lenawee County and of the city of Adrian from the first settlement of the county Adrian, Mich .: Times and Expositor Steam Print, 1876.

* Knapp, John I. with Richard Illenden BonnerIllustrated history and biographical record of Lenawee County, Mich. Adrian, Mich .: The Times printing company, 1903.

In 1999, what is believed to be the largest outbreak of waterborne E. coli O157: H7 illness in United States history occurred at the Washington County, New York fair.

What is believed to be the largest E. coli O157: H7 outbreak in Oregon history occurred among attendees at the Lane County fair in 2002.

* May 5 – Only thirteen spectators attend the soccer match between Leicester City and Stockport County, the lowest attendance in The Football League's history.

Agnew went from his first election as County Executive to Vice President in six years — one of the fastest rises in US political history, comparable with that of Nixon, who became Vice President after four years in the House of Representatives and two years in the Senate.

At various times in its history, it has been known as County Tirconaill, County Tirconnell or County Tyrconnell ().

The following is a population history for Howard County from the U. S. Census Bureau.

In September 1902 the Yacolt Burn, the largest fire in state history, began in neighboring Skamania County and swept west along a 12-mile front to Yacolt, nearly engulfing the town.

Opened in 2002, the Ohio Glass Museum is located in historic downtown Lancaster and dedicated to recording the history of the glass industry, which for over 100 years has been one of the mainstays of the economy of Fairfield County.

: For the history of Montgomery County prior to 1784 see Tryon County, New York

* Summary history of Montgomery County