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WALTHAM , a See also:city of See also:Middlesex See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., on both See also:banks of the See also:Charles See also:river, about 10 m. W. of See also:Boston. Pop. (189o) 18,707; (1900) 23,481, of whom 6695 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 27,834. Waltham. is served by the Boston & See also:Maine railway, and by electric interurban lines connecting with Boston, See also:Lowell, See also:Lexington. See also:Watertown andriver. Prospect See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill (482 ft.) commands a magnificent view. A See also:tract of roo acres, comprising this hill and an adjoining See also:elevation, has been set aside as a public See also:park by the city; and there are four playgrounds (See also:total See also:area, 624 acres) and, in the centre of the city, a large See also:common. In Waltham are some 43 acres of the See also:Beaver See also:Brook See also:Reservation and 40 acres of the Charles River Reservation of the See also:Metropolitan park See also:system; in the former are the famous " Waverley Oaks." The See also:Gore See also:Mansion, erected towards the See also:close of the 18th See also:century by See also:Christopher Gore (1758-1829), a prominent lawyer and Federalist See also:leader, See also:governor of Massachusetts in 1809-181o, and a member of the See also:United States See also:Senate in 1814-1817, is a stately See also:country See also:house surrounded by extensive grounds in which are See also:fine old oaks and elms. Above the city the Charles river is famous as a canoeing ground, and there is an See also:annual See also:canoe See also:carnival between Waltham and See also:Riverside, one of the most popular resorts in the neighbourhood of Boston. The city has a See also:good public library (about 35,E volumes in 1910). Its See also:principal buildings are a See also:state armoury, and the First See also:Parish (Unitarian), See also:Christ (See also:Protestant Episcopal), the Swedenborgian, the First Baptist and Beth See also:Eden (Baptist) churches. Waltham is the seat of the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-minded (established in Boston in 1848), the first institution of its sort in the country, and of the Waltham Training School for Nurses (1885), the first school to undertake the training of nurses for " See also:day See also:nursing " (outside of See also:hospital wards) on the See also:present See also:plan, of the See also:Convent of Notre See also:Dame and the Notre Dame Normal Training School (See also:Roman See also:Catholic), of the New See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church School (New See also:Jerusalem Church), of two business See also:schools, and the Waltham Horological School (187o), a school for See also:practical watchmaking and repairing; here also are the Waltham Hospital (1885), the Baby Hospital (1902) and the See also:Leland See also:Home (1879) for aged See also:women. In 1905 the city's factory product was valued at $7,x49,697 (21.4% more than in woo). The largest single See also:establishment was that of the See also:American Waltham See also:Watch See also:Company, which has here the largest watch factory in the See also:world, with an annual See also:production of about a million watches. Watch and See also:clock materials were valued at $123,885 in 1905. In 19o5 See also:cotton goods were second in value to watches; and third were foundry and See also:machine-See also:shop products ($516,067). Other products are automobiles, wagons and carriages, bicycles, canoes, See also:organs and enamelled See also:work.
The first See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:settlement was made about 164o and in 1691 became the See also:Middle See also:Precinct of Watertown. In 1738 the township of Waltham was separately organized. At various times it was increased in area, See also:part of See also:Cambridge being added in 1755 and part of See also:Newton in 1849. In 1859 one of its precincts was set off to See also:form part of the new township of See also:Belmont. In 1884 Waltham was chartered as a city. The first See also:power See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill for the manufacture of cotton See also:cloth in the United States was established here in 1814 as an experiment by the company which built the See also:mills and the city of Lowell. Waltham became an important manufacturing city in the See also:decade before the American See also:Civil See also:War, when the company which in 1853 made the first American machine-made watches moved hither from See also:Roxbury and established the Waltham watch See also:industry. This watch company, before the establishment of the U.S. See also:Observatory at See also:Washington and the transmission thence of true See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time throughout the country by electric See also:telegraph, had an elaborate observatory for testing and setting its watches.
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