Local History and Genealogy Digital Collection 

Indexed Links to the Digital Collection

Church & Cemetery Records

Gravestones at City Mills Cemetery
Farber Gravestone Collection
Franklin First Congregational Church Records, 1737-1881
Franklin First Congregational Church Records, 1781-1887
Franklin First Congregational Church Digital Collection
Union Congregational Society of South Franklin meeting records, 1855-1950
Union Street Cemetery Index & Map

Dean College/Dean Academy

1941 AWPIE Yearbook
1934 Dean Academy commencement ceremony (YouTube video)
1868 Dean Academy Waltz (sheet music)
Dean History Project
Dr. Oliver Dean by Augustus Jones

Diaries, Journals & Ledgers:

George Metcalf: his journal and book of accounts on the present expedition in Canada (1758)
Historical Scraps And Cuttings: Franklin. Wrentham, etc. (author unknown)
Practical Arithmetic In Manuscript 1811 by Fisher Thayer
Rosalie (Rabitor/Robitaille) Moore: Notebook
Timothy Rockwood Account book, 1803-1826
Wadsworth Diaries 1857-1893
Wadsworth Store Ledger [1877-1880s]

Franklin History & Genealogy (miscellaneous)

150th Anniversary of the Town of Franklin Historical Book (1928)
1917 Sanitary Survey of the Town of Franklin, Mass.
Addresses Delivered at the Bonnet Factory of A.E. Daniels & Sons(1857)
Agreement To Build A Sawmill At Minebrook 1713
Article: Lessons in Latin: the Itinerant scholar who shaped Horace Mann (New England Journal of History, Fall 2025)
Bicentenary of Benjamin Franklin's Birth January 17 1906
Briggs Family Reunion Photograph (1906)
Franklin and its advantages[undated]
Franklin & Wrentham by J.C. Gallison
Franklin Centennial Celebration 1878
Franklin Center Revitalization Report 1984
Franklin Historical Museum (website)
Franklin Ladybugs to the Massachusetts State House (1974 & 1988)
Franklin town meeting record, Vote to build a new Meetinghouse, March 19 1788
Franklin 200th anniversary of the Birth of Benjamin Franklin (1906)
History of the Franklin Grange 1887-1967
History of the Town of Franklin, Mass. by Mortimer Blake, 1878
Notes on Franklin History [1877](various authors)
Official Detective Stories magazine, September 1939 (Franklin Police - true story - "Through three fences to hot wool")
Official Program of Sesqui-centennial Franklin, Mass., 1928
Petition and Memorial of the Subscribers, a Committee in Behalf of the Town of Franklin, 1797
Sanitary Survey of the Town of Franklin (1917)
Stanley Chilson Fire Photographs
Stanley Chilson Films of Franklin
Vital Records: Births, Marriages & Deaths in Franklin, 1778-2014

Letters

Hattie A. Daniels to Lydia Ray Peirce (1914) (includes photograph of Lydia Mann, sister of Horace Mann)
Horace Mann to James Howe (1849)
Jane Mecom to Henry Hill (1793)
Millard Fillmore to A.J.H. Duganne (1856)
Ulysses S. Grant to Col. Benjamin Bristow (1871)

Library

A Catalogue Of Those Books In Franklin Library Which Belong To The Town (1812)
Franklin Library's Ray Memorial Building, Est. 1904
Franklin Library Register Of Borrowers Oct 1936 To Nov 1937
Franklin Library Register Of Borrowers Nov 1937 To Dec 1938
Franklin Library Register Of Borrowers Jan 1939 To Apr 1942
History of the Ray Memorial Library
Social LIbrary in Franklin, Annual Meeting Reports, 1811-1840
Tommaso Juglaris Mural Photographs
Tommaso Juglaris Mural Sketches
Tommaso Juglaris Autograph Letter (1902)

Maps, Property & Boundaries

1726-1735 Wrentham/Bellingham boundary papers
1795 map of Franklin & Wrentham
1832 map of Franklin
1876 map of Franklin
1889 Sanborn Map of Franklin
1904 Sanborn Map of Franklin
1919 Sanborn Map of Franklin
1927 Sanborn Map of Franklin
Franklin Real Property Assessment Data and Valuations
Plan of an estate surveyed 1875 for Dr. Erasmus D. Miller
Poll Tax List, Town of Franklin 1911
Poll Tax List, Town of Franklin 1914
Poll Tax List, Town of Franklin 1924
Real Estate Valuation in the Town of Franklin 1940
Valuation and tax report for the Town of Franklin 1868
Valuation and tax in the Town of Franklin 1889
Valuation and tax in the Town of Franklin 1896
Valuation in the Town of Franklin 1929
Wrentham Poll Tax for 1785

Massachusetts Resources

MACRIS: Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System
Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850
Norfolk County Registry of Deeds
Massachusetts Land Records
Massachusetts Archives Information
Port of Boston Passenger Manifests, 1848-1891
History of Norfolk County, Mass. 1622-1918, v1
History of Norfolk County, Mass. 1622-1918, v2

Military

Colonel Elias Cook, June 1, 1812 - List of names under his command
Franklin Civil War Veterans (Biographies)
Franklin, Mass. WWII Soldiers Scrapbook
G.A.R. Veteran William Fields (1890 Photograph)
Medway, Mass. 1775. List of enlisted men at Roxbury Camp
Three days at Camp Douglas, 1st day - Edmund Kirke (James R. Gilmore)
Three days at Camp Douglas, 2nd day - Edmund Kirke (James R. Gilmore)
Three days at Camp Douglas, 3rd day - Edmund Kirke(James R. Gilmore)

Newspapers

Advantage Archives Digital Collection
Elephind Historic Newspaper Collection
Franklin Register, 1873-1877
Franklin Sentinel, 1883-1978
Franklin Sentinel at Digital Commonwealth, Nov 1878-Dec 1952
Fulton Historical Newspapers Collection
Woonsocket Call,1899-1960

Postcards

Anne Giordano Postcard Collection
William Rayner Postcard Collection

Publications by Franklin Authors

Among the Pines by Edmund Kirke (James R. Gilmore)
As it is to be by Cora Linn Daniels
Garnered Sheaves: from the writings of Albert Deane Richardson
Pastoral (Poems) by Wallace Ruthven Richardson
That Boy: who shall have him? by William Haven Daniels

Record Books

Alden Club Records, 1897-1903
Alden Club Records, 1916-1925
Alden Club Records, 1943-1949
Franklin Fire District Records, 1868-1917
Franklin Garden Club Meeting Minutes, 1938-1942
Franklin, Mass Court Summons for Rubin and Elias Cook of Bellingham
Franklin, Mass. Court of Jabez Fisher, Scott vs Darling
Franklin Town Meeting Records 1736-1824
Franklin Town Meeting Records 1843-1891
Franklin Town Meeting Records 1892-1900
Franklin Town Records 1827-1875
Justice Jabez Fisher, Book Of Records, Began 4 March 1778
Justice Peter Adams, Book of Records, 1812-1826.
Record Of Laying Out Of Streets Franklin, Mass. 1785-1921

Resident Listings

1884 First Resident & Business Directory
1890 History & Directory of Franklin
1893 Directory of Franklin, Mass.
1899 Directory of Franklin, Mass.
1902 Franklin List of Residents
1905 Franklin List of Residents
1909 Franklin List of Residents
1913 Franklin List of Residents
1949 Franklin List of Residents
1950 Franklin List of Residents
1951 Franklin List of Residents
1952 Franklin List of Residents
1953 Franklin List of Residents
1954 Franklin List of Residents
1955 Franklin List of Residents
1956 Franklin List of Residents
1957 Franklin List of Residents
1958 Franklin List of Residents
1959 Franklin List of Residents
1960 Franklin List of Residents
1961 Franklin List of Residents.
1962 Franklin List of Residents
1964 Franklin List of Residents
1966 Franklin List of Residents
1967 Franklin List of Residents
1970 Franklin List of Residents
1971 Franklin List of Residents
1979 Franklin List of Residents
1980 Franklin List of Residents
1981 Franklin List of Residents
1982 Franklin List of Residents
1983 Franklin List of Residents
1984 Franklin List of Residents
1985 Franklin List of Residents
1986 Franklin List of Residents
1987 Franklin List of Residents
1988 Franklin List of Residents

School Records

Annual Report of the School Committee 1870
Annual Report of the School Committee 1879
Annual Report of the School Committee 1900
Annual Report of the School Committee 1905
Annual Report of the School Committee 1910
Annual Report of the School Committee 1911
Annual Report of the School Committee 1913
Annual Report of the School Committee 1914
Annual Report of the School Committee 1915
Annual Report of the School Committee 1916
Annual Report of the School Committee 1926
Franklin Academy School Song "Vale" 1836 (composed by Mortimer Blake)
Franklin High School (Franklin Academy) Catalogue of the Instructors & Pupils (1837)
Franklin High School Oskey Yearbooks, 1928-1930, 1933-2017
Franklin High School Oskey Yearbook, 1931
Franklin School Committee Minutes, 1853-1865
Franklin School Committee Minutes, 1880-1899
Franklin School Committee Minutes, 1909-1919
Franklin School Records, 1801-1864.
Horace Mann High School, Class of 1901
Horace Mann High School, Blue and White, February 1915
Records of the Meetinghouse (Brick) School, 1792-1865
Tri-County High School Yearbooks, 1978-2018

Town Reports

Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1865
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1867
Town of Franklin Annual report, 1872
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1874
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1879
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1885
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1886
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1891
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1897
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1898
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1899
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1900
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1903
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1904
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1905
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1906
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1908
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1910
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1917
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1920
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1923
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1925
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1926
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1927
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1928
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1929
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1930
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1935
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1937
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1939
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1940
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1943
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1944
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1947
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1948
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1950
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1951
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1952
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1953
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1954
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1955
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1956
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1958
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1959
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1960
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1961
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1962
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1963
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1964
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1966
Town of Franklin Annual Report, 1970
Town of Franklin Annual Reports, 2004-Current