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Waltham Watch Company, 221-257 Crescent Street, Waltham

Waltham Watch Company, 221-257 Crescent Street, Waltham, Middlesex County, MA. Surveyed as HAER MASS,9-WALTH,6-, with 1 photograph and a 119-word written history.

From the record

“Waltham Watch Company, 221-257 Crescent Street, Waltham, Middlesex County, MA”

Survey record header. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER MASS,9-WALTH,6- · the record runs 119 words · one of 333 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Waltham Watch Company, 221-257 Crescent Street, Waltham, Middlesex County, MA, photograph filed with the federal survey

1 photograph from the federal survey record, Library of Congress.

Location

74 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER MASS,9-WALTH,6-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Crescent St. Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Owner: Original; Aaron L. Dennison Significace To escape the dust and vibration harmful to precision manufacturing, Aaron Dennison moved his watch company from Boston to Waltham in It was the first civilian industry to introduce the use of interchangeable parts. Its establishment in Waltham spurred the development of many other watch-making and watch-tool firms in the Waltham area. Transmitted by: Dan Clement. Historical information compiled by Peter Stott.

In context

Waltham, Massachusetts The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Middlesex County, Massachusetts 449 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report, and the sheets the survey produced. Those published here appear above.

Also surveyed in Waltham

7 records

The federal surveyors worked through Waltham building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Boston Manufacturing Company, photograph filed with the federal surveyBoston Manufacturing CompanyHAER MASS,9-WALTH,4-4,279 words
Governor Christopher Gore MansionHABS MASS,9-WALTH,2-418 words
Central Massachusetts Railroad, photograph filed with the federal surveyCentral Massachusetts RailroadHAER MASS,9-WALTH,5A-158 words
Governor Christopher Gore Place, photograph filed with the federal surveyGovernor Christopher Gore PlaceHABS MASS,9-WALTH,2A-38 words
The Vale, photograph filed with the federal surveyThe ValeHABS MASS,9-WALTH,1-38 words
Governor Christopher Gore Coach House & Stable, photograph filed with the federal surveyGovernor Christopher Gore Coach House & StableHABS MASS,9-WALTH,7-33 words
Stone Mill, photograph filed with the federal surveyStone MillHABS MASS,9-WALTH,3-29 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER MASS,9-WALTH,6-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
  • How this page is made. Documentary passages are quoted from the linked federal record; page labels and counts are clearly marked as site presentation or calculations.