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Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
Waltham is commonly referred to as Watch City because of its association with the watch industry. Waltham Watch Company opened its factory in Waltham in 1854 and was the first company to make watches on an assembly line.
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Waltham includes: Prospectville, Riverview, Roberts Station, Beaver Brook Station, Bleachery Station, Chemistry, Clematis Brook Station, and Newton Street.
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Waltham Watch Factory and Adjacent Parks, Waltham, Mass.
The Waltham Watch Company began its operations at the site in 1854 and, through innovation, introduced a system of interchangeable parts. The Company developed machinery that could make... Read MORE...

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General Bank's Mansion, 1909
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Prospect House
The Prospect House is a historic building located at 11 Hammond Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built in 1839, this temple-front Greek Revival structure was originally a hotel and tavern, and is one of only a few surviving 19th... Read MORE...
History, News and Stories of Waltham, Massachusetts, USA

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1634 - Waltham is settled
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1738 - Waltham is incorporated
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General Henry Knox and his troops passed through Waltham, Massachusetts in the winter of 1775-76 with a load of 59 cannons pulled by teams of oxen.
The cannons were captured from the British at Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point. They were transported from Lake Champlain to Dorchester Heights,... Read MORE...
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1812 - May 4 - Nine inches of snow fell at Waltham, MA
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1813 - February 23 - 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Mass
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1816 - July 8 - Frost in Waltham, MA
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1845 - WALTHAM. [Pop. 2,504. Inc. 1738.]
Waltham was formerly the western part of Watertown.
This town is built on Charles River, which furnishes water power for several important ... Read MORE...
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1848 - Waltham
This town was incorporated January 4th, 1737-38; previous to this time it was the western precinct of Watertown. It appears that there was... Read MORE...
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1854 - Waltham
Waltham, a beautiful and flourishing post- village of Middlesex county, Massachusetts, on the Fitchburg railroad, 10 miles W. by N. from Boston. It... Read MORE...
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1854 - The Destructive Gale - Its Effects at the East.
...In Waltham, the car-house of the Fitchburg Railroad Company, 70 feet in length, was totally demolished... The New York Times
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March 21, 1854
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1854 - October 1 - The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.
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1884 - Waltham is incorporated as a city
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Waltham Massachusetts, 1890
WALTHAM, the " City of Watches," is situated in the southeasterly section of Middlesex County, 10 miles west of Boston, with which it is conveniently ... Read MORE...
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1895 - Waltham
Waltham, a beautiful city of Massachusetts, in Middlesex co., is situated on both banks of the Charles River, and on the Fitchburg Railroad, 10 miles ... Read MORE...
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Waltham -The Gateway to History
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Waltham, a city of Middlesex co., Mass., is situated on both banks of the Charles River and on the Boston and Maine R., 10 miles W. of Boston. It... Read MORE...
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