FRANKFORT, a city of Indiana, U.S.A., 4om. N.W. of Indianapolis; the county seat of Clinton county. It is served by the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville, the Nickel Plate and the Pennsylvania railways and by two inter-urban trolley lines. The population was 11,585 in 1920 (98% native white) and was 12,196 in 1930 by the Federal census. It is the trade centre for a fertile farming region with products valued at $7,000.000 an nually, and in 1927 the output of the city's 26 factories was valued at $6,147,461. The largest industry is the railroad shops of the Clover Leaf division of the Nickel Plate road, employing 1,000 persons. Others of importance are manufactures of kitchen cabinets, "porceliron" table-tops, plumbers' brass goods, cigars, butter, meat products, flour and children's play garments. The city owns its electric light and power plant, and hydro-electric power is available from the development on the Tippecanoe river. The first settlement in this vicinity was made in 1826. In 1830 the town was founded, and in 1875 it was incorporated as a city.