Franklin Public Square
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Lincoln School was constructed in 1940 in the Harristown section of Franklin, Simpson County’s county seat, which was a predominately African American community.
Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society
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Lincoln School
Historical Marker #2345 in Franklin remembers the Lincoln School, which served as that city’s African American school from 1940-1965.
During the “Jim Crow” era, funding for African American schools…