Franklin, Massachusetts

== History == Franklin was first settled by Europeans in 1660 and officially incorporated during the American Revolution.

The town was formed from the western part of the town of Wrentham, and it was officially incorporated on March 2, 1778; its designated name at incorporation was to be Exeter.

The town is also home to what may have been the nation's oldest continuously operational one-room school house (Croydon, New Hampshire's school dates to 1780, but there is debat...

It is home to the country's first public library, the Franklin Public Library with its first books donated by Benjamin Franklin in 1790.

The Red Brick School was started in 1792, its building constructed in 1833, and was operational until 2008.

The Town of Franklin is also home to Dean College, founded in 1865, a private residential college with over 1,100 students.

The Ray Memorial Library building was dedicated in 1904.

Ernest DelCarte (1911–2000) bequeathed the land that would become the conservation area to the Town of Franklin.

In 1990, on the library's bicentennial, its staff published a booklet, "A History of America's First Public Library at Franklin Massachusetts, 1790 ~ 1990" to commemorate Americ...

The median household income in the town was $92,066, and the median income for a family was $81,826 (these figures had risen to $89,659 and $101,900, respectively, as of a 2008 ...