↑ Hill, N., History of Licking County, 421.Return to Townships and Communities main page. There are extensive trails for hiking, biking, and horse riding, as well as the chance to see Huffman Mound and Rutledge Mound, another pre-historic site contained with the reserve. Located near the center of the township, the reserve is a part of Licking Park District, with two entrances and sections-Taft North and Taft South-of the reserve.
Taft reserve is a 425-acre forested reserve near the center of Franklin Township. More than one hundred years later, according to the 2010 census, the population remained small with only 760 residents. įranklin county had 676 inhabitants in 1900. Its founding dates later than Licking County's other National Road settlements and it was not laid out until 1848 by Abraham Boring and George Barnes. The small village of Amsterdam sits at the southernmost line of the township border with Bowling Green and developed due to its location of the National Road. The township remained rural, only developing one small settlement-Amsterdam-in its southwestern corner. Franklin became a township In 1812 and was named in honor of Benjamin Franklin. The first white settlers-George Ernst and Johan and Jacob Switzer-arrived in the township in 1805. The Mound was excavated in the mid-nineteenth century and burial remains and artifacts were discovered, but the mound itself suffered some collapse at the pinnacle. These, along with many others ancient structures, were destroyed by agricultural pursuits and development by early European settlers.Īn exception to this destruction was Huffman Mound, also know as Tippet Mound, though it did not escape entirely unscathed seventy-five feet in diameter and twenty-one feet in height, Tippet Mound is on land that was once the property of James Tippet, now a part of the Taft Reserve. Stone mounds, including a mound that was around forty feet in diameter, also dotted the local landscape. An large "ancient fort," or an enclosure with an embankment and ditch, once stood north of the Township's only settlement, Amsterdam. With twenty-one mounds and enclosures, the township had the third greatest number of Native American sites in the county, after Newark Township and Granville Township. Huffman or Tippett Mound as sketched by David Wyrick in 1860.Franklin Township once had an large number of Native American sies.
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