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15 Best Things to Do in Watertown (MA)

Founded in 1630, Watertown was one of the earliest Massachusetts Bay Colony settlements, and came about after a group of Puritan immigrants traveled up the Charles River. In the early 1830s, the hilly easternmost part of Watertown was chosen for Mount Auburn Cemetery, a new and massively influential kind of burial ground, in a picturesque …

In the rolling hills of the Western Highlands, Watertown is a north-western suburb of the city of Waterbury. To my mind, Watertown’s strength comes from its plentiful open space, culminating in high rocky ledges. These give you the kind of views that belong in 19th-century landscape paintings. In the two state forests within Watertown’s boundaries …