Watertown, Massachusetts and Related Topics

Perkins School for the Blind

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The Howe Building Tower from afar on the campus of the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts

Perkins School for the Blind, in Watertown, Massachusetts, was founded in 1829 and is the oldest school for the blind in the United States.

Brighton, Boston

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Former town and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, located in the northwestern corner of the city.

The Old First Church of Brighton 1744–1811

1852 map of Boston area showing Brighton and rail lines

Cemetery and apartment houses along Commonwealth Avenue, Brighton, near Chandler's Pond

The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College

In 1630, land comprising present-day Allston–Brighton and Newton was assigned to Watertown.

Armenian Library and Museum of America

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Armenian Museum of America (AMA), located in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States, is an institution that has the largest collection of Armenian artifacts in North America.

Watertown Dam

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Herring gull with herring caught below the Watertown Dam

The Watertown Dam spans the Charles River 980 ft upstream from the Watertown Bridge near Watertown Square in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Watertown Arsenal

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The Watertown Arsenal was a major American arsenal located on the northern shore of the Charles River in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Boston Marathon bombing

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Domestic terrorist attack that took place during the annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.

Security camera images of Tamerlan Tsarnaev (front) and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev just prior to the bombings

The blasts (red) occurred along the marathon course (dark blue), the first nearer the finish line than the second.

Emergency services at work after the bombing

This pressure cooker fragment was part of one of the explosive devices.

Emptied fireworks from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's backpack, found in a landfill near the UMass Dartmouth campus

Scenes and approximate times of events of April 18–19

Post-capture celebrations in Boston's student-heavy Mission Hill neighborhood

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a court holding cell on July 10, 2013

An apartment was searched in West New York, New Jersey that belonged to a sister of the Tsarnaevs.

The Prudential Tower lit up with a large "1" for the One Fund Boston a week after the bombing

The Boston Red Sox wore this patch on their uniforms in memory of the victims.

Victims of the bombing are remembered at Copley Square in Boston.

A monument memorializing the victims of the bombing was installed on Boylston Street, at the location of the explosions, in 2019

Flag flying at half staff at the American consulate in Milan, Italy

Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis gives a news conference about the bombing on April 15. Governor Deval Patrick is second from right and Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley is at far left.

At 12:45a.m., they had a shootout with the police in nearby Watertown, during which two officers were severely injured (one of whom, DJ Simmonds, died a year later).

Tamerlan Tsarnaev

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North Caucasian terrorist of Chechen and Avar descent who, with his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, planted pressure cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.

Shortly after the Federal Bureau of Investigation declared them suspects in the bombings and released images of them, the Tsarnaev brothers killed an MIT policeman, carjacked an SUV, and engaged in a shootout with the police in the Boston suburb of Watertown.

George Phillips (Watertown)

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George Phillips (c.

1593 – July 1, 1644) was an English-born Puritan minister who led, along with Richard Saltonstall, a group of English settlers up the Charles River to settle in what is now Watertown, Massachusetts in 1630.