 Along with platting and settling the town, Sullivant also built several structures out of brick and glass from Philadelphia.These buildings included a courthouse, a brick home to impress Starling (who was wed to Sullivant in 1801), a brick church and the first bridge across the Scioto River.The town of Franklinton was then made the county seat of Franklin County in 1803, when Franklin County was created from Ross County.