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Waltham, Massachusetts

  • Boston Manufacturing CompanyFrancis Cabot Lowell stood in the damp air of Lancashire, England, during 1810. He watched British textile machinery operate with a precision that American…
  • Waltham Watch CompanyAaron Lufkin Dennison stood in a Roxbury, Massachusetts workshop in 1849 and dreamed of making pocket watches as easily as shoemakers made shoes.
  • Waltham, MassachusettsThe English arrived in the area now known as Waltham during 1634. They settled there as part of a larger community called Watertown.