FRANKLIN, a city of Merrimack county, New Hampshire, at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and the Winnepesaukee rivers to form the Merrimack. It is on Federal highways 3 and 4, and is served by the Boston and Maine railroad. The area is 14.4 sq.m., and the population in 1920 was 6,318 and was 6,576 in 1930. It is a centre for summer touring and winter sports, and has important manufactures (for which the rivers supply good water power), especially paper, woollen stockings and suitings, knitting machines and latch needles. Franklin was the birthplace of Daniel Webster, and the house, still in good condition, is kept as a museum. On the Webster farm is the New Hampshire or phans' home (established 1871). The earliest settlement within the limits of Franklin was made in 1748. The town was formed in 1828, from parts of four others, and was incorporated as a city in