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Watertown Arsenal Map showing key locations and events related to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing in the Boston, Cambridge, and Watertown areas of Massachusetts. Numbered markers indicate where the two explosions occurred near the marathon finish line, the fatal shooting of an MIT police officer, a carjacking, a carjacking victim's escape, the death of one suspect after a firefight, and the capture of the second suspect in Watertown. Major roads, the Charles River, and landmarks such as the Massachusetts Institu
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Watertown

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Watertown, city, Middlesex county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S., on the Charles River, just west of Boston. One of the four earliest Massachusetts Bay settlements, it was founded by a group led by Sir Richard Saltonstall and was incorporated as a town in 1630; it was the first inland farming town. Its name may have derived from the fact that the area was well watered and abounded with fish. Construction of gristmills (1630s) and a cloth-fulling mill...

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