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Watertown became an incorporated village in 1816 and continued to prosper. Businesses, industries and the population doubled by 1824. Growth continued with the decade between 1850 and 1860 seeing the largest amount of building construction.
Watertown was incorporated as a village in 1816, and became a city in 1869. By then, it was booming as an industrial center for Upstate New York. By the early 20th century the city was said to have more millionaires per capita than any other city in the nation.
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The area had seen human occupation since at least the second glacial period, but significant change into what is now known as Watertown did not occur until the beginning of the Machine Age. The city, which was incorporated in 1869, had expanded primarily through trade with Canada.
Watertown incorporated as a city. Incorporated as a VILLAGE in 1849 and as a CITY on April 1, 1853 (obtained its charter as a city by action of the Wisconsin legislature) Election of first city officers, including first mayor. Ebenezer Moravian Church established.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Lumber, paper, and potash industries were developed, and the village of Watertown was separately incorporated in 1816. During a county fair, held there in 1878, F.W. Woolworth originated the idea of selling a fixed-price line of merchandise. When local timber resources were depleted, the community, with ample waterpower, acquired other industries.
The first people to live in Watertown chose Watertown because of the water power that the Black River gave. Watertown legally became a settlement on March 14, 1800. The city became the county seat of Jefferson County in 1805. Watertown was incorporated as a village in 1816, and became a city in 1869.
