This is the later 19th-Century town of Franklin, Missouri laid out to accommodate car shops of the MKT railroad. It was known as Franklin Junction. After WWII it incorporated and took the name of Franklin. The actual site of the riverside town that Becknell used as his base was about two miles south of the latter-day Franklin, Missouri. The original town of Franklin, from which William Becknell started from on his trip to trade was so heavily damaged by floods that most of its people moved in 1828 to New Franklin, just northeast of this modern day Franklin.

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