Watertown (Massachusetts)

Middlesex County

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Watertown is a city near Boston, Massachusetts in the United States.

4.1 libraries
4.2 theater
4.3 Museums

5.1 traffic

6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
6.2 personalities who have worked on site

Geography

Watertown is bordered to the north by Belmont and on the south by Newton and Brighton, where the restriction is in essence by the Charles River is defined. In the east, the city of Cambridge, whose border is almost completely defined by the well-known cemetery Mount Auburn Cemetery, which is applicable in the field of Watertown, but is often mistakenly associated with Cambridge is. To the west lies Waltham, but there are no clear geographic boundary.

History

On April 18, 2013 Watertown came into the headlines worldwide because two firearms and explosives heavily armed suspects the attack a gunfight delivered to the Boston Marathon here with the police, the older of the two was killed and his younger brother escaped injured. The city was then sealed off for hours because the police combed the whole area in search of this young man who could be tracked on the following evening.

Population

Population Development

Based on the census in 2000 had 32 986 inhabitants Watertown distributed to 14,629 households, and 7,329 families. The population density was 8,026 people per square mile, or 3,099 persons per square kilometer. There were 15 008 residential units with a density of 3651.5 units per square mile ( 1409.9 units per square kilometer).

The city's population was composed as follows: 91.42 % White, 1.73% African American, 0.16 % Indigenous American, 3.87 % Asian, 0.02 % Pacific Islander, 0.85% other races, and 1, 95 % two or more races. Hispanics and Latinos accounted for 2.68% of the population.

17.8% of households had children under the age of 18, 37.9 % were married couples, 8.7 % of households led by single women and 49.9 % of households were not classified as a family. In 34.1 % of households were living Singles, 12.4% were single elderly over 65 years. The average household size was 2.17 persons and the average family size was 2.86 persons.

The age distribution can be taken from the diagram. The median household income was 59 764 U.S. dollars, the median family income $ 67,441. Males have a median income of $ 46,642 compared with $ 39,840 for women. The per capita income for the city was $ 33,262. 4.5 % of families and 6.3% of the urban population living below the poverty line, including 8.6% under the age of 18 years and 7.5 % over 65 years.

Armenian population

Watertown is a great center of the Armenian Diaspora and Headquartered in 2007 with 7,000 members, the third largest Armenian community in the United States. Only the California cities of Glendale and Fresno have larger Armenian communities. In Watertown addition, some newspapers are published in English and Armenian languages , including Armenian Mirror - Spectator and the Armenian Weekly and Armenian Review.

Culture and sights

Libraries

Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library - Library for the Visually Impaired on the campus of the Perkins School
Watertown Free Public Library - in a 2006 renovated and enlarged building at 123 Main Street

Theater

Museums

Armenian Library and Museum of America - 65 Main Street

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

As in the metropolitan region around Boston increase land prices constantly, to Watertown has developed as an attractive and affordable alternative to more expensive cities such as Cambridge, Brookline, Belmont, and especially Boston. Watertown is conveniently located on the busy roads and Soldiers Field Road and the Massachusetts Turnpike, providing fast and direct way to the nightlife in downtown Boston. At the Watertown Square MBTA station, there are many connectivity options to go by bus or trolleybus in the surrounding towns. The city is served since 1958 by the line 71 of the trolleybus Cambridge.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

Richard Bakalyan (* 1931), actor
Charles Brigham (1841-1925), architect and designer of the Seal of Watertown
Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809-1874), lawyer, judge of the Supreme Court of the United States
Frederick C. Crawford (1891-1994), industrialist, founder of Thompson Products (later TRW Inc. ) and the Crawford Auto- Aviation Museum
Jeff DaRosa ( b. 1982 ), musician and member of the Dropkick Murphys, a former member of The Exit, grew up in Watertown
Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908), sculptor

Personalities who have worked on site

Boston band, took the majority of their platinum album in Boston on the Foxglove Studios, Watertown.
Convers Francis (1795-1863), pastor of the Unitarian Church in Watertown, starred with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and the other an important role in transcendentalism
Stephen P. Mugar (1901-1982), philanthropist and founder of Star Market

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