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Watertown (Town of Massachusetts)

a town of Massachusetts, which includes several villages, in Middlesex co. It is on the Charles river, and on the Boston and Maine railroad. It is chiefly a residential suburb of Boston, but has also important industries, including the manufacture of automobiles, rubber goods, stoves, soap, furnaces, etc. It has a public library and is the seat of a United States arsenal. The town was settled and incorporated in 1630. Pop. (1910) 12,875; (1920) 21,457.