Framingham
a town in Middlesex co., Mass.; on the Sudbury river, and on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford, and the Boston and Albany railroads; about 20 miles W. of Boston .
It comprises the villages of Framingham, South Framingham, and Saxonville.
Here are a high school, a State Normal School, Historical and Natural History Societies, the State Woman's Reformatory, several National and savings banks, daily and weekly newspapers , and street railroad and electric light plants.
It has a large industry in woolen goods. woolen goods .
Pop. (1910) 12,948; (1920) 17,033.