Watertown, Massachusetts Watertown, Massachusetts Watertown's Main Street Watertown's Main Street Official seal of Watertown, Massachusetts Watertown, Massachusetts is positioned in the US Watertown, Massachusetts - Watertown, Massachusetts The Town of Watertown is a town/city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Watertown is one of fourteen Massachusetts municipalities that have applied for, and been granted, town/city forms of government but wish to retain "The town of" in their official names. Watertown is made up of six neighborhoods: Bemis, Brigham (Brigham Historic District), Coolidge Square, East Watertown, Watertown Square and the West End.
Archeological evidence suggests that Watertown was inhabited for thousands of years before the arrival of pioneer from England.
Two tribes of Massachusett, the Pequossette and the Nonantum, had settlements on the banks of the river later called the Charles. The Pequossette assembled a fishing weir to trap herring at the site of the current Watertown Dam.
Watertown, first known as Saltonstall Plantation, was one of the earliest of the Massachusetts Bay Colony settlements.
For its first quarter century Watertown ranked next to Boston in populace and area.
In 1632 the inhabitants of Watertown protested against being obliged to pay a tax for the erection of a stockade fort at Cambridge; this was the first protest in America against taxation without representation and led to the establishment of representative democracy in the colony. As early as the close of the 17th century, Watertown was the chief horse and cattle market in New England and was known for its fertile plant nurseries and fine estates.
Saltonstall's landing spot in Watertown, also known as Elbridge Gerry Landing For a several months early in the American Revolution the committees of safety and committee of correspondence made Watertown their command posts and it was from here that General Joseph Warren set out for Bunker Hill. The Watertown Arsenal directed continuously as a military munitions and research facility from 1816 until 1995, when the Army sold the property, by then known as the Army Materials Technology Laboratory, to the town of Watertown.
The Arsenal is notable for being the site of a 1911 strike prompted by the management methods of operations research pioneer Frederick Winslow Taylor (Taylor and 1911 Watertown Arsenal Strike).
The Watertown Arsenal was the site of a primary superfund clean-up in the 1990s, and has now turn into a center for shopping, dining and the arts, with the opening of a several restaurants and a new theatre.
Arsenal Street features two shopping malls athwart the street from one another, with the Watertown Mall on one side, and The Arsenal Project of Watertown (formerly the Arsenal Mall) on the other.
The Perkins School for the Blind, established in 1829, has been positioned in Watertown since 1912.
The Stanley Brothers assembled the first of their steam-powered cars, which came to be known as Stanley Steamers, in Watertown in 1897. In 1988, Watertown Square became the new locale for the Armenian Library and Museum of America, said to host the biggest compilation of Armenian artifacts in North America.
Shortly after midnight of April 18 19, 2013, the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing engaged in a protracted battle with police, in Watertown involving the use of firearms and explosives.
Watertown is positioned at 42 22 17 N 71 10 55 W (42.37139, -71.18194). To the north, it is bordered by the town of Belmont, along Belmont Street; to the south, it is bordered by Newton and Brighton - the border being largely formed by the Charles River.
In Watertown Square, the hub of the town, the town's border extends south of the Charles to encompass the neighborhood encircling Casey Playground.
To the east lies the City of Cambridge, the border to which is almost entirely the well-known Mount Auburn Cemetery, most of which is actually in Watertown (though generally believed to be in Cambridge).
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.2 square miles (11 km2), of which 4.1 square miles (11 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.1 km or 1.20%) is water.
Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. Watertown is a primary center of the Armenian diaspora in the United States, with the third-largest Armenian improve in the United States, estimated as numbering 7,000 to over 8,000 as of 2007. Watertown rates only behind the California metros/cities of Glendale and Fresno.
Watertown is also the venue for the printed announcement of long-running Armenian newspapers in English and Armenian, including: General Dro's grave in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Watertown (post-reinterment in Armenia) Major employers based in Watertown include the Tufts Health Plan, the Perkins School for the Blind, Sasaki, Harvard Business Publishing, Bright Horizons Family Solutions and athenahealth. Watertown borders Soldiers Field Road and the Massachusetts Turnpike, primary arteries into downtown Boston.
Most of them pass through or terminate in Watertown Square or Watertown Yard.
The former A-Watertown branch of the MBTA's Green Line ran to Watertown until 1969.
Watertown Public Schools operates enhance schools in the city.
Boston, Boston-based modern group led by Tom Scholz, recorded the majority of the (17x) Platinum eponymous album Boston at the Foxglove Studio in Watertown.
Charles Brigham (1841 1925), nationally known architect and designer of the Watertown town seal Eliza Dushku (1980 ), film and TV actress, interval up in Watertown and graduated from Watertown High School Convers Francis (1795 1863), minister ordained at the Watertown Unitarian Church, who, along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and others, had an meaningful part in transcendentalism Hrach Gregorian (1949 ), Ph - D, interval up in Watertown, 1968 Watertown High School graduate.
Dro died in Watertown on March 8, 1956 and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
One origin gives his arrival date in Watertown as 1630, the rest as 1635 or 1636.
Robert Seeley (1602 68), co-founder of Watertown, landowner At the close of 2016, the Watertown Raiders High School field hockey team has won 16 state championships from the 1980s up to the present.
Watertown has 123 straight wins and has gone undefeated in 183 straight games.
The Watertown High School Raiders won the Division III State Championship for basketball amid the 2006 07 and 2008-09 seasons.
Watertown Pop Warner football won back-to-back easterly Mass.
Watertown youth hockey won the state championship for youth hockey division II in 2005-06.
The Watertown High School Raiders soccer team won the MIAA Division III North title in 2012-13.
Watertown Free Public Library at 123 Main Street, in a newly renovated and period building The Edmund Fowle House (1772) and Museum, at 28 Marshall St., the second earliest surviving home in Watertown (after the Browne House) Gore Place is an early 19th century historic home exhibition and National Historic Landmark in Waltham, Massachusetts, with 31.6 acres of the 45-acre estate positioned in Watertown.
The Watertown Arsenal was a primary American arsenal positioned on the northern shore of the Charles River in Watertown.
Watertown Branch Railroad City of Watertown official website, "History and Tourism" "Watertown Tab "Zubrowski: The herring run through Watertown from Mother's Day to Father's Day" (June 10, 2009)".
"1990 Enumeration of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1980 Enumeration of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1950 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1920 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1890 Enumeration of the Population" (PDF).
"1870 Enumeration of the Population" (PDF).
Armenians in Watertown, MA in Hayk the Ubiquitous Armenian Watertown in Armeniapedia.org Watertown, Massachusetts at the Internet Movie Database An Historical Sketch of Watertown, in Massachusetts, by Convers Francis, presented in 1830.
Henry, Genealogies of Watertown, Massachusetts, Boston: Higginson Book Company (undated undivided reprint of 1860 edition).
Thompson, Roger, Divided We Stand, Watertown, Massachusetts 1630-1680, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.
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