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  • The United Nations Comes to Framingham

    FRAMINGHAM, MA — In 1946, a United Nations search committee, accompanied by Governor Maurice Tobin visited Framingham. The committee inspected the Doeskin Hill area as a possible site for the permanent location for the United Nations. Back then, the idea was to find a relatively unpopulated convenient location to build a small United Nations city.

    While the committee was impressed, Henry Dennison, who lived on Doeskin, and Henry Ford (more…)

    News Staff

    May 6, 2009
    Around Town
    Anwarul Karim Chowdhury, David Cohen, Doeskin Hill, Earl Fahey, Henry Dennison, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Maurice Tobin, Nicholas Paganella, United Nations

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