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The trails are beautiful this time of year!
A strange sort of turn into a little piece of nature that is easily missed with the harrowing watertown sq merger and the Galen St bridge.
Congratulations to Watertown for putting on such a beautiful display of lights serving to bring a feeling of warmth amidst the winter chill.
I ride bikes here along the river all the time! It is a pretty quiet spot usually with a couple kids or people fishing. It’s a good spot to take a break when biking along the Charles river path, which can go all the way to Waltham
Very scenic buses going everywhere hiking trails shops restaurants I liked it
Nice place to hang out while waiting for the bus. They light the big tree in the winter.
Be sure to park your car and walk to two places:
The little park just south of the Square intersections overlooking a huge natural pool of the Charles Square. Very quiet and peaceful. Lots of birds,and fish. Too-few folks visit this urban natural gem, hiding just out of sight from the busy roadways.
Then walk a few block north to their very fine Armenian Museum. Good historical exhibits and rotating art shows...and a large display of original big Karsh photo-portraits of famous Americans (most of which you'll recognize from magazines).
If you have time, then drive a mile east to the small cemetery at the corner of Common Street. This was originally the town common, where (after the battles of Lexington and Concord) Washington began his long political campaign to become Commander-in-Chief of upcoming Revolutionary forces...and John Adams first proposed a new three-part Amerucan government. The four-corner boundaries of its no-longer-extant meetinghouse are well marked by four pillars...so *you* can stand where your country's founders stood.
Watertown is one of the oldest towns in the Country (c. 20th oldest), founded by Puritans in 1630...11 months before Newtown/Cambridge was. Originally, Watertown extended all the way to Sparks St. (now in Cambridge. All of its vast area west of Sparks was not annexed by Cambridge until the 1850). The many Watertown across the nation were all founded by families from here!
Almost all of beautiful Mt.Auburn Cemetery (1831, America's very first parklike landscape!) is in Watertown. (Only a tiny section of land by its front entrancr is in Cambridge.) Almost all of its huge number of beautiful mature trees are named and labeled: Consider it an accessible teaching-arboretum and vast garden... with a bonus of interesting restful marble statues.
Enjoy
Watertown
(1630) :
Greater Boston's
forgotten
quiet
little
gem!
The little park just south of the Square intersections overlooking a huge natural pool of the Charles Square. Very quiet and peaceful. Lots of birds,and fish. Too-few folks visit this urban natural gem, hiding just out of sight from the busy roadways.
Then walk a few block north to their very fine Armenian Museum. Good historical exhibits and rotating art shows...and a large display of original big Karsh photo-portraits of famous Americans (most of which you'll recognize from magazines).
If you have time, then drive a mile east to the small cemetery at the corner of Common Street. This was originally the town common, where (after the battles of Lexington and Concord) Washington began his long political campaign to become Commander-in-Chief of upcoming Revolutionary forces...and John Adams first proposed a new three-part Amerucan government. The four-corner boundaries of its no-longer-extant meetinghouse are well marked by four pillars...so *you* can stand where your country's founders stood.
Watertown is one of the oldest towns in the Country (c. 20th oldest), founded by Puritans in 1630...11 months before Newtown/Cambridge was. Originally, Watertown extended all the way to Sparks St. (now in Cambridge. All of its vast area west of Sparks was not annexed by Cambridge until the 1850). The many Watertown across the nation were all founded by families from here!
Almost all of beautiful Mt.Auburn Cemetery (1831, America's very first parklike landscape!) is in Watertown. (Only a tiny section of land by its front entrancr is in Cambridge.) Almost all of its huge number of beautiful mature trees are named and labeled: Consider it an accessible teaching-arboretum and vast garden... with a bonus of interesting restful marble statues.
Enjoy
Watertown
(1630) :
Greater Boston's
forgotten
quiet
little
gem!
