Dennison - Dennison

Usa Farmington

1844 - 1990

Dennison started as a family business in brunswick, maine, that began in 1844 making jewelry boxes and grew within 20 years to making the first "merchandise labels and making the "patch,'' a reinforced circle so tags could be tied to products After relocating to framingham, the company was so successful at the turn of the 20th century it employed 3,000 people, or roughly a third of the town's population, and its 16-acre site was called "the gold coast ''