A report on Waltham, Massachusetts, Charles River, Watertown, Massachusetts and Newton, Massachusetts
Waltham was first settled in 1634 as part of Watertown and was officially incorporated as a separate town in 1738.
- Waltham, MassachusettsThrice 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, MassachusettsMost of the watercraft activity occurs from the Museum of Science to the center of Watertown, above which is a dam.
- Charles RiverThe city is bordered by Waltham and Watertown on the north, Needham and the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston on the south, Wellesley and Weston on the west, and Brookline and the Brighton neighborhood of Boston on the east.
- Newton, MassachusettsThe Charles River flows along the north and west parts of Newton, and Route 128 passes through the west part of the city.
- Newton, MassachusettsPart of Newton annexed to Waltham.
- Waltham, MassachusettsAt the time of European colonization in the early 1600s, settlements of Massachusett people were present along the river at Nonantum in current day Newton and Pigsgusset in current day Watertown.
- Charles RiverWaltham was the site of the first fully integrated textile factory in America, built by Francis Cabot Lowell in 1814, and by the 19th century the Charles River was one of the most industrialized areas in the United States.
- Charles RiverTo 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.
- Watertown, MassachusettsThe city stretches along the Charles River and contains several dams.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
0 linksCity in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area as a major suburb of Boston.
City in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area as a major suburb of Boston.
Situated directly north of Boston, across the Charles River, it was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, once also an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders.
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.
The town comprised a much larger area than the present city, with various outlying parts becoming independent towns over the years: Cambridge Village (later Newtown and now Newton) in 1688, Cambridge Farms (now Lexington) in 1712 or 1713, and Little or South Cambridge (now Brighton) and Menotomy or West Cambridge (now Arlington) in 1807.
The second area is the larger Hobbs Brook and Stony Brook watersheds, which share borders with neighboring towns and cities including Lexington, Lincoln, Waltham and Weston.