Virginia Repositories—Piedmont

Franklin County Historical Society

Franklin County Historical Society
460 S. Main Street
P.O. Box 905
Rocky Mount, VA 24151

Phone: 540-483-1890E-mail: fchistorical@yahoo.com
Open 10:00 a.m.‒2:00 p.m. daily (closed Wednesday and Sunday)





Web: http://www.franklincountyvirginiahistoricalsoc.org

Repository

Franklin County Historical Society is located at 460 S. Main Street in Rocky Mount, Virginia. The Society holds family and place items of historical interest pertaining to Franklin County, Virginia and the surrounding area.

Be Prepared

The Research Library & History Museum are open at no charge; however, a minimum donation of $1 per person is suggested and more is appreciated if you are able.

Research assistance: A donation of $20 per hour is charged for research; copying fees are 25 cents per copy from our holdings and those at the public library and 50 cents per copy made at the courthouse. All proceeds go into our operating fund.

Holdings

Included in the holdings are vital records, family histories, regional history, and more. Available to researchers are thousands of resource publications including family histories, moonshining, railroads, and Confederate history. On display are two floors of artifacts.

Publications for sale

Books for sale – those we make in spiral-bound form and hard bound from various sources. Dying Art volumes by Jack Powell; Franklin County Virginia Heritage 2000; Bicentennial History of Franklin County by Salmons; The Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935 and Genesis of a Frontier: Franklin County Virginia by T. Keister Greer; The Wettest County in the World by Bondurant; numerous other selections.

Linda Stanley, Special Projects Coordinator
Franklin County Historical Society

Virginia Repositories—Piedmont