Franklin, Massachusetts

Franklin is a city in Norfolk County with a population of over 32,000 people. Franklin is home to dozens of research & development and manufacturing companies, and has attracted innovative technology companies in a wide range of industries: nanotechnology, data storage, specialty materials, life sciences - biotechnology, and medical devices.

Did you know...

• Franklin is one of thirteen Massachusetts municipalities that have applied for, and been granted, city forms of government but wish to retain "The town of" in their official names.
• It is home to the country's first library, the Franklin Public Library, with its first books donated by Benjamin Franklin in 1790.
• It contains the largest Catholic parish in the Boston Archdiocese, St. Mary's Catholic church, with some 15,000 members.
• Franklin is the home to the birthplace of America's father of public education, Horace Mann.
• The town is also home to what may have been the nation's oldest continuously operational one-room school house - The Red Brick School.

The Tri-County Regional Chamber has been supporting the businesses in the town of Franklin since 1922.