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| | WATERTOWN (MASS.) - LoveToKnow Article on WATERTOWN (MASS.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Watertown is served by the Fitchburg division of the Boston and Maine railway, and is connected with Boston, Cambridge, Newton (immediately adjacent and served by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railway) and neighboring towns by electric railways. |
 | | Among the public buildings and institutions are the city hall, the Federal building, the county court house, a state armoury, the Flower Memorial Library (erected as a memorial to Roswell P. Flower, governor of New York in 1892-1895, by his daughter, Mrs J. Taylor) with 25,514 vols. |
 | | in 1910, the Immaculate Heart Academy (Roman Catholic), the Jefferson County Orphan Asylum (1859), the St Patrick's Orphanage (1897; under the Sisters of St Joseph), the Henry Keep Home (1879), for aged men and women, St Joachim's Hospital (1896; under the Sisters of Mercy), and the House of the Good Samaritan (1882). |
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