The Town of Randolph is a suburban city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. At the 2020 census, the city population was 34,984. Randolph adopted a charter vigorous January 2010 providing for a council-manager form of doling out instead of the standard town meeting. Randolph is one of thirteen Massachusetts municipalities that have applied for, and been granted, city forms of processing but wish to retain “The town of” in their qualified names.

Before European colonization the Place that is now Randolph was occupied by the Massachusett, Wampanoag, and Pokanoket tribes. It was called Cochaticquom by the local Cochato and Ponkapoag tribes. The town was incorporated in 1793 from what was formerly the south precinct of the town of Braintree. According to the centennial house delivered by John V. Beal, the town was named after Peyton Randolph, first president of the Continental Congress.

Randolph was formerly the home of several large shoe companies. Many popular styles were made exclusively in Randolph, including the “Randies”. At the grow old of Randolph’s fascination in 1793, local farmers were making shoes and boots to swell household incomes from subsistence farming. In the neighboring half century, this sideline had become the town’s major industry, attracting workers from across New England, Canada and Ireland and superior from Italy and Eastern Europe, each calculation to the character of enthusiasm in the town. By 1850, Randolph had become one of the nation’s leading boot producers, shipping boots as far afield as California and Australia.

The end of the shoe industry at the dawn of the twentieth century led to Randolph’s innovation as a suburban residential community. Boot and shoe making has been supplanted by buoyant manufacturing and foster industries. The town’s proximity to major transportation networks has resulted in an influx of families from Boston and other localities who flesh and blood in Randolph but do its stuff throughout the metropolitan area.