Franklin punches above its weight for a small Southern town. Octagon Hall north of town is a Civil War-era oddity — one of the only eight-sided brick houses ever built in Kentucky and now a museum. Kentucky Downs, just south on the Tennessee line, is the only all-turf flat thoroughbred track in the United States. The compact Downtown Commercial District around the Simpson County Courthouse is on the National Register, an unusually intact block of late-19th-century brickwork. Outside town, Kenny Perry's Country Creek Golf Club draws golfers who appreciate the work of a PGA Tour pro on his home soil.