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We're sorry. Actually, no we're not.
Franklin hosted one of the deadliest battles of the Civil War, and its takeaway was to open a trolley tour, a ghost walk, and a gift shop. The Carter House is covered in bullet holes and the town still found room for a boutique selling 'Bless This Mess' pillows. Nothing says reverence like a hop-on, hop-off tour of a slaughter.
The Factory at Franklin is a former stove factory that now sells lobster rolls, artisan donuts, and $9 lattes to people who have never worked a day in a factory. Franklin looked at the industrial heritage of America and said 'what if it had a Pinchy's?' You haven't preserved history, you've put a candle store in it.
Franklin sits in one of the wealthiest counties in the country, which explains the Range Rovers. Franklin is what happens when Nashville's money wants to be near the honky-tonks but not near anyone who visits them. It's a half-hour drive to actual culture, and you take it every Saturday, then complain about the traffic on I-65 for a week.
Downtown Franklin has been named a 'Distinctive Destination' and won a Great American Main Street Award, and it will tell you so at every single opportunity. It's a few blocks of preserved brick, with a Frothy Monkey on it, where every festival looks like a Hallmark movie that got a zoning variance. The town has parks just for dogs, which tells you exactly whose feelings this city prioritizes.
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