One other crucial task that was done in Franklin that provides the town as a representation of other settlements in the valley was the type of protection that was used to protect the settlers. While the main valley militia unit was stationed in Logan, each settlement, including Franklin had their own group of minute men. In Franklin, the minute men were composed of all able-bodied men who were capable of being ready in the event of danger, and each man in the militia had his own horse and rifle. Besides this, the Franklin minute men were also able to especially put Mount Smart or Lookout Mountain to use by posting guards on top of the mountain so that they could keep watch on Indians and other movements in the valley. The minute men in Franklin
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Opening in the fall of 1860 at William Comish’s home, Hannah Comish taught twenty-one children for three months. The Franklin school impacted the surrounding area in that it provided local children an education and gave community school teachers the second greatest influence next to the Bishop who were the ones that choose the best people available to be the teachers. Bishop Preston Thomas cut logs from Deep Creek Canyon and built the first public building which also served as a one-room log building with a fireplace on the east side and it had a sod roof and dirt floor it was erected in the center of the fort during the spring of 1861. After the completion of the school house, the building would be used not only for school but for church, community amusements, and all other public …show more content…
The timbers were rolled into position over the pit and with one man in the pit under the log and one on top, with a large saw with handles on each end; the log was slowly ripped into lumber. This was the beginnings of the first lumber industry in Idaho. A little later Samuel R. Parkinson and Thomas Smart built a saw mill operated by an undershot waterwheel near the present residence of S. C. Parkinson. Mr. Thomas Lowe and his son T. G. Lowe built the first shingle mill in the state, just east of Franklin. The canyons were filled with good timber such as red and white pine, and they made shingles for many of the buildings and homes of the
Opening in the fall of 1860 at William Comish’s home, Hannah Comish taught twenty-one children for three months. The Franklin school impacted the surrounding area in that it provided local children an education and gave community school teachers the second greatest influence next to the Bishop who were the ones that choose the best people available to be the teachers. Bishop Preston Thomas cut logs from Deep Creek Canyon and built the first public building which also served as a one-room log building with a fireplace on the east side and it had a sod roof and dirt floor it was erected in the center of the fort during the spring of 1861. After the completion of the school house, the building would be used not only for school but for church, community amusements, and all other public …show more content…
The timbers were rolled into position over the pit and with one man in the pit under the log and one on top, with a large saw with handles on each end; the log was slowly ripped into lumber. This was the beginnings of the first lumber industry in Idaho. A little later Samuel R. Parkinson and Thomas Smart built a saw mill operated by an undershot waterwheel near the present residence of S. C. Parkinson. Mr. Thomas Lowe and his son T. G. Lowe built the first shingle mill in the state, just east of Franklin. The canyons were filled with good timber such as red and white pine, and they made shingles for many of the buildings and homes of the