Our Town - Franklin,MA

"Our Town" is our insiders' look at the communities of New England. "Our Town" gives you the key, top-line facts and figures any home buyer needs to know.  But, just as importantly, "Our Town" will give you a sense about what statistics can't tell you, but what you really need to know: what's the character of the community?

For this personalized view, we ask our agents to share their "Five Faves" about the towns where they not only do business, but in which they live.  Our hope is that you may find some special tidbit on "Our Town" that could help make it your town.

This month's "Our Town" takes a look at Franklin, MA.

The city of Franklin was first settled by Europeans in 1660, and was officially incorporated in 1778. Named after Benjamin Franklin, the city is also home to the birth place of America's father of public education, Horace Mann. Franklin is home to what may be the nation's oldest continuously operational one-room school house, The Red Brick School. Still open to the public, today, it was started in 1792, and remained in operation until 2008.

For this issue of "Our Town," we spoke with Agent Matt Kelly of RE/MAX Executive Realty.