Franklin, Massachusetts
Town of Franklin Official seal of Town of Franklin Location of Town of Franklin Town of Franklin is positioned in the US Town of Franklin - Town of Franklin The Town of Franklin is a town/city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.
Franklin is one of fourteen Massachusetts municipalities that have applied for, and been granted, town/city forms of government but wish to retain "The town of" in their official names. As of 2012, the city's populace was 33,092.
It is home to the country's first library, with its first books donated by Benjamin Franklin.
The town was formed from the part of the town of Wrentham on February 16, 1778; its designated name at incorporation was to be Exeter. However, the town's people chose to be called Franklin with respect to the statesman Benjamin Franklin, the first municipality in the U.S.
It was hoped that Benjamin Franklin would donate a bell for a church steeple in the town, but donated 116 books instead, beginning a debate over who should be allowed access to these books.
In 1990, on the library's bicentennial, its staff presented a booklet, "A History of America's First Public Library at Franklin Massachusetts, 1790 ~ 1990" to memorialize America's first enhance library and book collection. Enumeration Bureau the town has a total region of 27.0 square miles (70 km2), of which 26.7 square miles (69 km2) is territory and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) (1 percent) is water.
The town has an impounded series of lakes known as the Franklin Reservoir, which is not used as a enhance drinking waterworks.
The lakes are now protected open space donated to the town by the late Ernest Del - Carte. Significant enhance forests and parks include the Franklin State and the Franklin Town Forests.
The Franklin Public Schools have six elementary schools, three middle schools, and one high school.
Franklin is also home to a county-wide vocational-technical high school and one charter school (Grades K - 8).
Franklin High School constructed a new high school building and tore down the old one in 2014. The Town of Franklin is also home to Dean College, established in 1865, a private residentiary college with about 1,100 students.
As noted, the Franklin Public Library is the first enhance library in America and homes the initial books donated by Benjamin Franklin.
At one end of Franklin's Historic District is the little Red Brick School.
Franklin, and the encircling towns also have a bus system, that is part of the Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Transit Authority (GATRA) bus authority.
Its route includes stops to the Municipal Building, Senior Center, Franklin Public Library, and the Franklin Village Shopping center.
Charles Partridge Adams, born in Franklin, 1858 landscape painter, Gold Medal of National Mining and Industrial Exposition, Denver, for landscape Edward Reed Blake, born in Franklin - Wisconsin state legislator and businessman Major General Normando Antonia Costello, born in Franklin, 1905 orchestrated surrender of Weimar, Germany Oliver Dean, MD, born in Franklin, 1783 - physician and educator, benefactor and founder of Dean Academy Milton Metcalf Fisher, born in Franklin, 1811 - abolitionist George Warren Fuller, born in Franklin, 1868 responsible for meaningful innovations in water and wastewater treatment Eddie Grant (baseball), born in 1883 and interval up in Franklin - baseball player, killed in WWI Horace Mann, born in Franklin, 1796 educator Eliab Metcalf, born in Franklin, 1785 artist Theron Metcalf, born in Franklin, 1784 - Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Richardson, born in Franklin, 1833 journalist, spy, and author Bobby Santos III, born in Franklin, 1985 - NASCAR driver "Franklin Massachusetts".
Although it is called the "Town of Franklin," it is a statutory town/city of Massachusetts.
Town of Franklin.
"History of the Franklin Public Library".
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The Red Brick School, Franklin, Massachusetts site.
"1990 Enumeration of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1980 Enumeration of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1950 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1920 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1890 Enumeration of the Population" (PDF).
"1870 Enumeration of the Population" (PDF).
"Franklin, Massachusetts - Quick - Facts - United States Enumeration Bureau".
"Franklin city, Massachusetts - Fact Sheet - American Fact - Finder".
"The 187th General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts" (official website.) Retrieved December 23, 2012.
The New Franklin High School.
A History of the Town of Franklin, Mass: From Its Settlement to the Completion of its First Century.
"Franklin's favorite son Peter Laviolette on wrong side of rink".
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