Editor’s Note – Crane & Company of Dalton was among three companies and individuals honored with Next Century awards at the AIM centennial gala on Monday.

If you think AIM has been around a long time, consider the fact that Crane & Company was already more than a century old when it became the second member of Associated Industries of Massachusetts in 1915.

Crane paper products have been closely woven into the fabric of American history, from 19^th century stock certificates to correspondence between Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. The company is perhaps best known for its role as the exclusive supplier of US currency paper since 1879.