Strategically located just six miles northwest of Boston in Middlesex County, Watertown enjoys the advantages of this metropolitan commercial, residential, and social community while maintaining its own local characteristics and unity.

- For many years the population of Watertown was greater than Boston.
- The Perkins School for the Blind was charted in 1829 and moved to Watertown in 1912.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is buried in Watertown.
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