Watertown, Massachusetts, a town in Middlesex County. The town is on the Charles River, five miles (8 km) west of downtown Boston. Perkins School for the Blind, and the U.S. Army Materiel and Mechanical Research Center, established as an arsenal in 1816, are here. Watertown was founded and incorporated in 1630. In 1632 it made the first protest of the American colonies against unfair taxation. The second and third Massachusetts provincial congresses met here in 1775-76. Watertown is the birthplace of Charles Pratt (1830-1891), founder of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Population: 32,986.
