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The Watertown Arsenal was a major American arsenal located on the northern shore of the Charles River in Watertown, Massachusetts. The site is now registered on the ASCE 's List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks and on the US National Register of Historic Places , and it is home to a park, restaurants, mixed use office space, and formerly ...
The Commanding Officer's Quarters, Watertown Arsenal is a historic house in Watertown, Massachusetts.During the American Civil War, a new commander's quarters was commissioned by then-Capt. Thomas J. Rodman, inventor of the Rodman gun, for the Watertown Arsenal.
Throughout its long history, Watertown Arsenal maintained several laboratory facilities that conducted mechanical testing as well as research on material development and solid-state physics. [5] The first known instance of a laboratory at Watertown Arsenal was a one-story wooden building built in 1842.
Arsenal Yards (formerly known as Arsenal Mall from 1983 to 2013 and the Arsenal Project from 2013 to 2016) is a mixed-use, smart growth development in Watertown, Massachusetts. The area is home to the original Arsenal Mall site, which was redeveloped for Arsenal Yards.
The Watertown Arsenal operated continuously as a military munitions and research facility from 1816 until 1995, when the Army sold the property, by then known as the Army Materials Technology Laboratory, [15] to the town of Watertown. The Arsenal is notable for being the site of a 1911 strike prompted by the management methods of operations ...
Frederick William Galbraith, Jr. was born in Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts, on May 6, 1874. [1] His two brothers were college professors, but he left school at the age of 10 to go with his father to San Diego, California, for work. He was soon the youngest track-walker on the Southern Pacific Railroad.
WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWTI) – The Watertown Police Department has released the names involved in an alleged Saturday evening accident that involved a car and a pedestrian. Authorities responded just ...
By November 1889, Flagler had begun a tour of nearly thirteen months as commandant of Watertown Arsenal, during which period was promoted to the rank of Colonel in September 1890. [11] Flagler was named the 9th Chief of Ordnance and promoted to Brigadier General on January 23, 1891. He entered his new duties admirably equipped by reason of his ...