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  History of Framingham, Massachusetts, USA

Journey back in time to Framingham, Massachusetts, USA

(South Framingham)

Visit Framingham, Massachusetts, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 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...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,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  The 1812 House
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• 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...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...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....Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 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...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. ...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 ...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...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 ...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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