{"id":313,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:48:36","latitude":39.41941150000000249065124080516397953033447265625,"longitude":-85.0082914999999985639078659005463123321533203125,"title":"Franklin County Seminary","subtitle":"","fullsize":"https://discoverindianahistory.org/files/fullsize/a0b9b7dd44b3f34aa14866c4104beda2.jpg","address":"412 E 5th Street, Brookville, IN 47012","all_locations":[],"zoom":12,"creator":["Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology"],"description":"The Franklin County Seminary opened in 1831 as part of a mandate in Indiana’s 1816 Constitution for each county to have a seminary. The concept of a publicly supported secondary educational system in the United States under a state-wide program was first conceived in Indiana under this county seminary system. The county seminary was to be the second level of public education, with common schools and a state seminary completing the constitutional requirements. The Franklin County Seminary serves as a physical link to this area of secondary educational history. It closed as a  county seminary by mandate of the 1851 Indiana Constitution as emphasis shifted to common schools. The seminary was placed on the National Register in 1974.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":[],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://discoverindianahistory.org/files/fullsize/a0b9b7dd44b3f34aa14866c4104beda2.jpg":{"id":1586,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Franklin County Seminary","description":"Courtesy of Indiana DNR","thumbnail":"https://discoverindianahistory.org/files/square_thumbnails/a0b9b7dd44b3f34aa14866c4104beda2.jpg"}}}