FRANKLIN HOTEL
Hotel — 709 Main Street, Deadwood, Lawrence County, South Dakota
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/franklin-hotel-deadwood-south-dakota/

Tourism recounts claims that Harris Franklin appears to check on employees.

A hotel in Deadwood, South Dakota, Franklin Hotel is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Tourism recounts claims that Harris Franklin appears to check on employees. Its signature presence is Harris Franklin — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. It still takes guests.

Franklin is the grand — the '1903' that's the open's year, the 'steam phones' that's the luxury's list. The 'founder watches' is the stayed — the 'Harris' that's the ghost's name, the 'cleaning staff' that's his focus's odd. The 'presidents slept' is the hosted — the 'Roosevelt Taft' that's the register's fame, the 'Babe Ruth' that's the ball's name.
The 'pit pool' is the odd — the 'swimming' that's the basement's past, the 'matched funds' that's the build's deal. The 'spurs heard' is the walked — the 'bootsteps' that's the stairs' sound, the 'nobody there' that's the sight's lack. Franklin is the played — the 'casino now' that's the use's shift, the 'Silverado' that's the owner's name.
The file keeps Franklin: the grand open, the watching founder, the slept presidents, and the walked spurs.
Franklin Hotel is the archive's South Dakota file — the hotel where the founder still inspects the cleaning.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Franklin Hotel is the archive's South Dakota file — the grand hotel whose founder never left.
A hotel keeps its founder — the file's suggestion being that Franklin's hold is the watched: the 'Harris' that's the ghost's name, the 'cleaning' that's his focus's odd, and the 'spurs' that's the stairs' sound.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] haunting: Tourism recounts claims that Harris Franklin appears to check on employees. A hotel in Deadwood, South Dakota with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Haunted Deadwood: A Wilder West Experience'. The reports keep the place on every haunted list it qualifies for.
  source: Haunted Deadwood: A Wilder West Experience (https://www.travelsouthdakota.com/trip-ideas/haunted-deadwood-wilder-west-experience)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Haunted Deadwood: A Wilder West Experience — Travel South Dakota / Austin Kaus
  https://www.travelsouthdakota.com/trip-ideas/haunted-deadwood-wilder-west-experience

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