The remains of Mound Builders in the present territory of Franklin are found chiefly in the Big Mulberry Valley, or rather were found, for the annual plowing over them has reduced the most of them to ordinary levels.

Gen. Jesse Miller, who has taken pains to observe them, recalls having opened many of these mounds and finding in them bones, earthenware, pottery and other utensils; they were also arranged with almost, if not quite, scientific regularity. Some of these are on his own farm and on the Beneaux estate. On Gen. Miller's farm he found an old burying ground on the mounds of which very old trees were growing, and in one part of which were rocks arranged in the form of a five-pointed star.