A report on Watertown, Massachusetts, Belmont, Massachusetts and Cambridge, Massachusetts

Saltonstall's landing spot in Watertown, also known as Elbridge Gerry Landing

Boston & Maine Railroad Station at Belmont Center; the platforms are now used for MBTA Commuter Rail, but the building itself is now privately owned

Map showing the original boundaries of Cambridge and other Massachusetts cities and towns

Edmund Fowle House, built in the 1700s and used by the Massachusetts government during the Revolutionary War

A small Wellington Hill Station building has been carefully preserved, having been relocated and repurposed several times after it was constructed in the 1840s.

Belmont Town Hall c. 1913, architects Hartwell and Richardson

1852 Map of Boston area showing Cambridge and regional rail lines and highlighting the course of the Middlesex Canal. Cambridge is toward the bottom of the map and outlined in yellow, and should not be confused with the pink-outlined and partially cropped "West Cambridge", now Arlington.

Hairenik Association building – Watertown, Mass.

A view from Boston of Harvard's Weld Boathouse and Cambridge in winter. The Charles River is in the foreground.

Buildings of Kendall Square, center of Cambridge's biotech economy, seen from the Charles River

Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

Aerial view of part of MIT's main campus

The 1888 part of the Cambridge Public Library

The Weeks Bridge provides a pedestrian-only connection between Boston's Allston-Brighton neighborhood and Cambridge over the Charles River.

Engine 2, Paramedic Squad 2, Ladder 3 firehouse

Belmont was established on March 10, 1849, by former citizens of, and land from the bordering towns of Watertown, to the south; Waltham, to the west; and Arlington, then known as West Cambridge, to the north.

- Belmont, Massachusetts

The first buildings were upon land now included within the limits of Cambridge known as Gerry's Landing.

- Watertown, Massachusetts

Thrice portions have been added to Cambridge, and it has contributed territory to form the new towns of Weston (1712), Waltham (1738), Lincoln (1754) and Belmont (1859).

- Watertown, Massachusetts

Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newtowne was one of several towns (including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under Governor John Winthrop.

- Cambridge, Massachusetts

Belmont is bordered by Cambridge on the east, Arlington on the north, Lexington on the northwest, Waltham on the west, and Watertown on the south.

- Belmont, Massachusetts

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- Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Waltham, Massachusetts

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City in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution.

Waltham Supermarket on Main Street, established in 1936, was a large historic grocery store that closed in the 1990s. The building continues to be a supermarket, occupied subsequently by Shaw's, then Victory, and now Hannaford.

Waltham was first settled in 1634 as part of Watertown and was officially incorporated as a separate town in 1738.

1755 – Part of Cambridge annexed to Waltham.

1859 – Town of Belmont separates from Waltham.

Middlesex County, Massachusetts

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Located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the United States.

It is included in the Census Bureau's Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The county was created by the Massachusetts General Court on May 10, 1643, when it was ordered that "the whole plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four shires." Middlesex initially contained Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, Woburn, Medford, and Reading.

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