Greater Franklin Chamber of Commerce
The Greater Franklin NY Chamber of Commerce serves Franklin, Treadwell, Otego and surrounding areas. Businesses in Delaware and Ostego counties are welcome to join. The Chamber strives to foster a thriving business environment in our community by sponsoring events and facilitating business relationships.
The Town of Franklin lies in the northern part of Delaware County, New York State. It is bordered by Otsego County on the north, the town of Davenport, and Meredith on the east, the towns of Delhi, Hamden, and Walton on the south, and the town of Sidney on the west. Franklin presents a view of wooden hills, streams, ponds, old homes, and commerical buildings, and numerous winding roads. The hills are Devonian age sedimentary rocks that slope gently to the south, gray-green or red mudstones, siltstones, and sandstones. Its surface is hilly upland made of shallow shaly loam atop glacial till (hardpan), while the valleys consist of deeper gravelly loam atop moraines, kames, outwash and alluvium.
Little is known of the area prior to the American Revolution. It was a wilderness visited by different Indian tribes, colonial hunters and trappers. Various land patents were bought sight unseen by speculators who were lured by dreams of profit taking. Hundreds of settlers had moved into the Harper’s Patent.
Greater Franklin Chamber of Commerce
PO Box 814
Franklin, NY 13775
Phone: 607-386-1369
Email: info@franklinny.org
