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  History of Framingham, Massachusetts, USA

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(South Framingham)

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• 1650 - Framingham is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1700 - Framingham is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1717 - THE GREAT SNOW OF 1717
  Four successive snowstorms-two of them minor, two of them of major proportions-fell within a ten-day interval (February 27th through March 7th), and left a snowfall estimated to be somewhere between three and four feet across much of New England. On the Post Road leading to New Hampshire and Maine, ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1753 - July 18 - Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham Mass
  
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• General Henry Knox and his troops passed through here in the winter of 1775-76 with a load of 59 cannons pulled by teams of oxen.
  The cannons were captured from the British at Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point. They were transported from Lake Champlain to Dorchester Heights, Massachusetts and used by George Washington's army on March 17, 1776 (Evacuation Day) to free Boston from British control during the American...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  The 1812 House
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• 1839 - Framingham
  Framingham, Massachusetts
  Middlesex county. A large and flourishing manufacturing town, with a fine soil and pleasant ponds:—20 miles W.S.W. from Boston, and 13 S.S.W. from Concord. The ponds and Sudbury river give this town a good water power. The value of the manufactures, the year ending April...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1845. FRAMINGHAM. [Pop. 3,030. Inc. 1700.]
  Framingham, when only a plantation, had the same name it now bears, and it once included a part of Sudbury, northeast of it, called the Farms.
  
  A branch of Concord River, called Sudbury River, runs through the town, and Saxonville, a thriving manufacturing village, is built upon it. The...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1848 - Framingham
  FRAMINGHAM was incorporated as a town in 1700. In this year it was by the general court “ordered that said plantation, called Framingham, be henceforth a township retaining the name of Framingham, and have and enjoy all the priviledges of a town according to law. Saving unto Sherbon all the rights...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Framingham
  Framingham, a post-township of Middlesex county, Massachusetts, 20 miles W. by S. from Boston, has extensive manufactures of cloths, boots, &c. Population. 4252. It contains a village and a bank ; it is connected by a branch railroad with the Boston and Worcester railroad.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
  
• 1859
  FRAMINGHAM, a township in Middlesex co., in the state of Massachusetts, U.S., 18 m. WSW of Boston. Pop. 3,030.
  A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
  
  
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  Central Square - Framingham Centre, Mass.
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• Framingham Massachusetts, 1890
  Framingham, one of the most beautiful towns in the Commonwealth, lies in the southwestern part of Middlesex County, some 20 miles southwest of Boston, nearly the same distance east of Worcester, about 25 miles south of Fitchburg and Lowell, and 30 miles north of Taunton. It is bounded on the north...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Framingham
  Fra’mingham, a post-town of Middlesex co., Mass., on the Sudbury River, and on the Boston, Clinton & Fitchburg Railroad, 24 miles W. by S. of Boston. Another rail road extends northward to Lowell. It has 12 churches, 3 banks, 4 newspaper offices, manufactures of rubber, straw goods, boots and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  R.R. Station, South Framingham, Mass.
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•  1906 - TEN BODIES ARE RECOVERED. FOUR MORE SUPPOSED TO BE IN RUINED BUILDING AT SOUTH FRAMINGHAM, MASS.
  South Framingham, Mass., July 24. - Under the light of electric lamps the work of exhuming the bodies of the victims of the collapsed Amsden building went on unceasingly through the night. At dawn there were ten bodies at the morgue, eight of the injured were at the hospital, two others were at...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Framingham High School, So. Framingham
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  Arlington St. School, So. Framingham, 1909
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•  1910 - MOTHER LOSES LIFE SAVES LITTLE BOY
  Boston Journal Special Wire.
  South Framingham, March 25. - It cost Mrs. William Tucker, 25 years old, of State street, Framingham Center, her life to protect her 3-year-old boy from a bonfire this afternoon. Mrs. Tucker was raking leaves in her yard when the child got too close to the blaze. The...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Concord Block, So. Framingham
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  Eames Square, So. Framingham
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  Franklin School, So. Framingham
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  Central Street, Saxonville, Mass.
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  Irving Square, South Framingham, Mass.
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  Sudbury River, 1911
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  Dennison Manufacturing Co., So. Framingham
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  Framingham, Mass. Gates Elm. (1912)
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• 1916
  Framingham, a post-village and township (town) of Middlesex co., Mass., on the Sudbury River and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R., 24 miles W. by S. of Boston. The town has manufactories of boots and shoes, rubber- and straw-goods, cloth, yarns, etc. Pop. in 1900, 11,302 ; of the village, ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Framingham Hospital, South Framingham, Mass.
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  Union Ave. and Grace Church, So. Framingham
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  State Reformatory for Women
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  Lincoln St. School
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  State Normal School
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  Abner Wheeler House
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  The Chocolate House, Route 9
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  The Sinclair House, 189 Concord St., Route 126
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