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African American Residence by Town, Franklin County, 1860
This table shows the residential patterns of Franklin County by race
and township, showing where the black population lived.
| Town |
Black Population |
| Antrim |
132 |
| Borough of Chambersburg |
84 |
| South Ward of Chambersburg |
439 |
| Fannett |
40 |
| Borough of Greencastle |
81 |
| Greene |
111 |
| Guilford |
79 |
| Hamilton |
22 |
| Letterkenny |
13 |
| Loudon |
2 |
| Lurgan |
2 |
| Borough of Mercer |
89 |
| Metal |
8 |
| Mont Alto |
0 |
| Montgomery |
331 |
| Borough of Orrstown |
1 |
| Peters |
115 |
| Quincy (Township and Village) |
43 |
| St. Thomas |
0 |
| Southampton |
124 |
| Warren |
6 |
| Washington |
47 |
| Waynesboro |
13 |
U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census [1860]. Population of the United States in 1860, Compiled from the Original Returns of the
Eighth Census. Washington, D.C., 1864. U.S. Census of Population, 1860. Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
In U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington: National Archives
and Records Administration (Augusta: Reels 1333 and 1387. Franklin: Reels 1111 and 1112).
Edward L. Ayers and William G. Thomas, III
African American Residence by Town, Franklin County, 1860
2001
Points of Analysis to this Data:
 "In Franklin black residents lived clustered in towns and segregated from whites, their position in the county secure only
in their tightly defined communities."
"In Franklin County, John Breckinridge won a majority in six precincts, most of them in the far northern and western belt of
the county, where few blacks lived and farmers planted corn not wheat."
"Lincoln won sixteen precincts in Franklin, ten of them by margins greater than 55 percent, with support mainly from the urban
center of the county and places with the highest numbers of black residents--even though black men could not vote in Pennsylvania."
Citation: Key = E149
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