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Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Middlesex County, MA
Location
Watertown, MA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER MA-20
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-7).
Building/structure dates:
1816 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1830 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1842 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1845 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1847 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1851 subsequent work
Significance: Initially the Arsenal operated primarily for the receipt, storage, and issue of ordnance supplies. During the Civil War the Arsenal expanded its production capabilities to include field and seacoast gun carriages. By the 1890s the Arsenal was engaged in the production of larger and more complex gun carriages. By the 1940s Watertown Arsenal was producing steel guns to be used in World War II. Watertown Arsenal possesses significance as a major development and production facility for 19th and 20th century military hardware.
Subjects
Stone Buildings (freestone)War (World War I)War (World War II)
Related Names
Talcott , Capt. Geor
Parris, Alexander
Rodman, Thomas
Department Of The Army
Watertown Redevelopment Authority
Bomford
Diamond, Don, Field Team
Dean, Gardner, Field Team
McManus, Paul, Field Team
Baylies, Libby, Historian
Bahr, Betsy, Historian
Flagler, D. W., Delineator
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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