Watertown Region

Historic New York

Where the North Country touches Lake Ontario is the western gateway to the Adirondacks. Although reached by Samuel de Champlain in 1615, and viewed by other French explorers, La Salle and Frontenac, this area was an unsettled ...

Watertown Killed in Action Memorial

Killed in Action

1950 Korea 1955

All Returned

1964 Vietnam 1973

Argenta, Allen C. • Childs, Christopher J. • Greenwell, Joseph E. • Palmer, Douglas T.

Marker is at the intersection of DeForest Street (U.S. 6) and Veterans Hill on DeForest Street.

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Watertown

The local Paugasuck Indians sold this area of land to Thomas Judd and thirty-five other proprietors in 1684. The First Ecclesiastical Society of Westbury was formed in 1738 and in 1780 Westbury separated from Waterbury, was named Watertown, and soon ...

Watertown

1630 - 1930

Settled by Puritans in 1630 under the leadership of Sir Richard Saltonstall and the Rev. George Phillips who stood firmly for religious toleration and the right of the people to a representative government.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Watertown

The local Paugasuck Indians sold this area of land to Thomas Judd and thirty-five other proprietors in 1684. The First Ecclesiastical Society of Westbury was formed in 1738 and in 1780 Westbury separated from Waterbury, was named Watertown, and soon ...

Old Charlestown – Watertown Path

Reverend Thomas Hooker and his congregation took this path on their exodus from Cambridge in 1636. The strong bent of their spirits caused them to seek new lands and eventually to found Hartford in Connecticut.

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Watertown Plank Road

Started in 1848 and completed in 1853, extended 58 miles west from Milwaukee on a course roughly paralleling State Street past the Frederick Miller Plank Road Brewery through Wauwatosa, Pewaukee, and Oconomowoc to Watertown. The $110,000 road of white oak ...