FRANKFORT, Ky., city, capital of the State of Kentucky, county-seat of Franklin County; on the Kentucky River, the Chesapeake and Ohio, Frankfort and Cincinnati and the Louisville and Nashville railroads; 55 miles by rail east of Louisville and 65 miles southwest of Cincinnati. The city was founded by Gen. James Wilkinson (q.v.) in 1786, and for a time it was made the seat of his intrigues when he was trying to detach Kentucky from the Union and affiliate it with Spain. When Kentucky was admitted as a State in 1792 Frankfort was made the capital. During the Civil War it was for a time the headquarters of the Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg (q.v.). On 4 Oct. 1862 Richard Hawes was inaugurated here as the Confederate governor of Kentucky. In 1900 there was great excitement in Frankfort as to who was elected governor of the State. It was decided that William Goebel was the governor elect. In the midst of the agitation Goebel was assassinated. Frankfort owes much of its pres ent prosperity to its location in the "Blue Grass" section of the State. Its chief manufac tures are flour, whisky, lumber, carriages, twine, shoes and furniture. The United States
census of manufactures for 1914 showed within the city limits 31 industrial establish ments of factory grade, employing 878 persons; 546 being wage-earners receiving annually a total of $271,000 in wages. The capital invested aggregated $4,094,000 and the year s output was valued at $4,755,000: of this, $1,996,000 was the value added by manufacture. The city is the trade centre for an extensive region; the river is navigable and by artificial means it is made to furnish a large amount of water power. The city contains the State arsenal, a State home for feeble-minded children, a State peniten tiary, the State Normal School for colored pu pils and Saint Joseph's Academy. The State government buildings and the State library with over 100,000 volumes add to the interests of the city. Franklin cemetery contains the grave of Daniel Boone (q.v.) and other noted men con nected with the history of Kentucky. Pop. 11,080.