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FRAMINGHAM , a township of See also:

Middlesex See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., having an See also:area of 27 sq. m. of hilly See also:surface, dotted with lakes and ponds. Pop. (189o) 9239; (1900) 11,302, of whom 2391 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 12,948. It is served by the See also:Boston & See also:Albany, and the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford See also:railways. Included within the township are three villages, Framingham Center, Saxonville and See also:South Framingham, the last being much the most important. Framing-See also:ham See also:Academy was established in 1792, and in 1851 became a See also:part of the public school See also:system. A See also:state normal school (the first normal school in the See also:United States, established at See also:Lexington in 1839, removed to See also:Newton in 1844 and to Framingham in 1853) is situated here; and near South Framingham, in the township of Sherborn, is the state reformatory See also:prison for See also:women. South Framingham has large manufactories of See also:paper tags, shoes, boilers, See also:carriage wheels and See also:leather See also:board; formerly See also:straw See also:braid and bonnets were the See also:principal manufactures. Saxonville manufactures worsted See also:cloth. The value of the township's factory products increased from $3,007,801 in 1900 to $4,173,579 in 1905, or 38.8%. Framingham was first settled about 164o, and was named in See also:honour of the See also:English See also:home (See also:Framlingham) of See also:Governor See also:Thomas Danforth (1622-1699), to whom the See also:land once belonged. In 1700 it was incorporated as a township.

The " old See also:

Connecticut path," the Boston-to-See also:Worcester See also:turnpike, was important to the See also:early fortunes of Framingham Center, while the Boston & Worcester railway (1834) made the greater See also:fortune of South Framingham. See J. H. See also:Temple, See also:History of Framingham . . . 1640-1880 (Framingham, 1887).

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