Join the Black Diamond Historical Society.  They are conducting the final tour of the year of the former coal mining town of Franklin on Saturday, March 4.

Franklin was a company-owned coal mining town in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The town site was nestled alongside the Green River Gorge and has many cement foundations, a 1,300-foot coal mine shaft, cemetery, and other reminders of what it was like when coal was king in the King County area.