Entering Watertown, Massachusetts

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Entering Watertown, Massachusetts
Entering Watertown, Massachusetts

Watertown was inhabited long before English colonization. In the 1600s, two groups of the indigenous Massachusett, the Pequossette and the Nonantum, had settlements on the banks of the river the English later called the Charles. Recent historical research records "Pigsgusset" as the native name of "Water towne." The Pequossette built a fishing weir to trap herring at the site of the current Watertown Dam. The annual fish migration, as both alewife and blueback herring swim upstream from their adult home in the sea to spawn in the fresh water where they were hatched, still occurs every spring.
Watertown, first known to settlers as Saltonstall Plantation, was one of the earliest of the Massachusetts Bay Colony settlements. Founded in early 1630 by a group of settlers led by Richard Saltonstall and George Phillips, it was officially incorporated that same year. The alternate spelling "Waterton" is seen in some early documents.
Watertown is in Middlesex County in Eastern Massachusetts, six miles northwest of Boston on the Charles River. The population in 2024 is 32,986. Watertown is bordered on the North by Belmont and Cambridge, on the South by Boston and Newton, and on the West by Waltham.

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Taken on: September 6, 2024
Sets appears in:   • Massachusetts Town Line Road Signs    • Middlesex County, Massachusetts   
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