A report on Waltham, Massachusetts, Weston, Massachusetts, Middlesex County, Massachusetts and Watertown, Massachusetts
Waltham is a 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, MassachusettsWeston is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts United States, about 15 miles west of downtown Boston.
- Weston, MassachusettsWatertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and is part of Greater Boston.
- Watertown, MassachusettsWaltham was first settled in 1634 as part of Watertown and was officially incorporated as a separate town in 1738.
- Waltham, MassachusettsThe 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.
- Middlesex County, MassachusettsWeston was originally part of the Watertown settlement of 1630, but until the end of the century, the land was used mainly for grazing cattle.
- Weston, 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, MassachusettsThe town is bordered by Newton and Waltham on the east; Wellesley to the south; Natick and Wayland to the west; and Lincoln to the north.
- Weston, MassachusettsKendal Green (mostly in Weston)
- Waltham, MassachusettsWaltham
- Middlesex County, MassachusettsWeston
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Newton, Massachusetts
1 linksNewton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
The 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.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1 linksCambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area as a major suburb of Boston.
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 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.