Royal, Franklin County, North Carolina

Clifton House and Mill Site is a historic home and grist mill site located near Royal, Franklin County, North Carolina. It was built in the 1850s, and is a two-story, rectangular frame house with a hipped roof in the Greek Revival style with Italianate design elements. It features a two-story pedimented front porch and has a two-story rear ell. Also on the property are two contributing 19th-century outbuildings, Miller's House, and the ruins of a grist mill built about 1831, including some machinery.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Harris Crossroads is an unincorporated community in south central Franklin County, North Carolina, United States.It is located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 401 and Tarboro Road (SR 1100), southeast of Youngsville, at an elevation of 404 feet (123 m).

New Hope is an unincorporated community in southern Franklin County, North Carolina, United States.It is located west-northwest of Bunn, at an elevation of 364 feet (111 m). The primary cross roads where the community is located are N.C. Highway 98, Clifton Pond Road (SR 1103) and Bethlehem Church Road (SR 1103).

William A. Jeffreys House is a historic plantation house located near Youngsville, Franklin County, North Carolina. It was built about 1842, and is a Federal style frame dwelling consisting of a two-story central block with flanking one-story wings. It has a Greek Revival style interior finish.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Franklinton High School is a public school for secondary education located near Franklinton, North Carolina, United States, about 4 miles (6.4 kilometres) southeast of the town. It serves the rapidly expanding western areas of Franklin County and has seen significant growth in the past several years. The new campus was constructed in 2010 to replace the old high school that was built in the town of Franklinton in 1923. The new high school currently serves grades 9 through 12 for students residing in the Franklinton and Youngsville areas. There was originally a high school located in Youngsville, but it was closed and students in Youngsville began attending Bunn High School in 1978. Youngsville High School was demolished and a new elementary school was built in its place, called Youngsville Elementary School. The new Franklinton High School was opened to students on August 25, 2011 to start the 2011–2012 school year. Franklinton High School is three floors although the building is situated on an incline. The lower level (downhill side) primarily consists of the cafeteria, auditorium, gymnasium and vocational wing including art, music, technology, shop and agriculture. All of the sports fields are also on the downhill side heading towards Cedar Creek. Two floors are on the upper level (uphill side) which consist of the administrative offices and library along with the English, math, science, social studies and foreign language wings.

The Green-Hartsfield House, also known as the Hartsfield House, is a historic home located near Rolesville, Wake County, North Carolina, a satellite town northeast of the state capital Raleigh. Built in 1805, the house is an example of Late Georgian / Early Federal style architecture. It is a two-story, three-bay, single pile, frame dwelling sheathed in weatherboard, with a two-story gable-roofed rear ell. A one-story rear shed addition was added in the 1940s. The house was restored between 1985 and 1987. Also on the property is a contributing frame barn.In December 1989, the Green-Hartsfield House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Heartsfield–Perry Farm is a historic home and farm located at Rolesville, Wake County, North Carolina, a satellite town of the state capital Raleigh. The original one-room house was built in the 1790s, with a Greek Revival style update made about 1840. It is a two-story house with two-story rear ell and one-story rear shed addition. It features a double-tier Greek-Revival-style—porch and low hipped roof. The interior of the house retains some Federal style design elements. Also on the property are the contributing detached kitchen (c. 1840), smokehouse / woodshed (c. 1840), privy (c. 1900), doctor's office (c. 1840), mule barn (c. 1805), pack house (c. 1940), horse barn (c. 1940), feed barn (c. 1840), two tobacco barns (c. 1930, c. 1950), the family cemetery, and the agricultural landscape.In January 2003, the Heartsfield–Perry Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Youngsville is a town in Franklin County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,016 at the 2020 census.

Hopkins is an unincorporated community in eastern Wake County, North Carolina, United States. The center of the community lies at the crossroads of Hopkins Chapel Road and Fowler Road, near North Carolina Highway 96, about three miles north of the town of Zebulon.

The Dr. Lawrence Branch Young House is a historic home located in Rolesville, North Carolina, a satellite town of the state capital Raleigh. Built in 1903, the Young house is the only example of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival architecture in Rolesville. The two-story white house features a wraparound porch, tall brick chimneys, and steep pyramidal roofs.In September 2003, the Dr. Lawrence Branch Young House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Originally mapped in Cecil County, Maryland in 1899, more than 10 million acres (40,000 km²) of the Cecil soil series (Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults) are now mapped in the Piedmont region of the southeastern United States. It extends from Virginia through North Carolina (where it is the state soil), South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, with the typic Cecil pedon actually located in Franklin County, NC. The Cecil series developed over igneous rock such as granite, and metamorphic rock which is chemically similar to granite. Virgin Cecil soils support forests dominated by pine, oak and hickory, and have a topsoil of brown sandy loam. The subsoil is a red clay which is dominated by kaolinite and has considerable mica. Few Cecil soils are in their virgin state, for most have been cultivated at one time or another. Indifferent land management has allowed many areas of Cecil soils to lose their topsoils through soil erosion, exposing the red clay subsoil. This clay is amenable to cultivation, responds well to careful management, and supports healthy growth of pine where allowed to revert to forest. Like other well-drained Ultisols, it is ideal for urban development; however, in common with other kaolinite-dominated clays, it has little ability to recover from soil compaction. Total potassium in the Cecil is higher than typical for Ultisols due to the presence of mica.

Shemuel Kearney House was a historic plantation house located near Franklinton, Franklin County, North Carolina, formerly at 2555 U.S. Highway 1 south of town. In 2009, the house was dismantled and moved to nearby Louisburg for restoration as the original property was recently zoned by Franklin County for commercial use. Therefore, the building had to be relocated. The Shemuel Kearney House was reconstructed next to another historic residence, the Cooke House, on Peach Orchard Road in 2015.Although the National Register of Historic Places lists the house as being built in 1790, it was actually constructed in 1759 by Shemuel Kearney (1734–1808) and is currently the second oldest residence in Franklin County after Cascine Plantation which was built in 1752. The home consists of a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay, gambrel roofed main block with a later one-story, gable roofed rear wing. It has a simple, robust Georgian style finish.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.