Family History 2.36

Bigelow History:

Post-1630;

from Wikipedia

Waltham, later home of Samuel Bigelow 

 

Waltham, Massachusetts, was first settled in 1634 as part of Watertown and was officially incorporated as a separate town in 1738.

 

1703 - Grove Hill Cemetery established.

1738 - Town of Waltham incorporated from Watertown, Massachusetts.

1755 - Part of Cambridge annexed to Waltham.^[1]

1793 - The Vale (residence) built.

 

In the early 19th century, Francis Cabot Lowell and his friends and colleagues established in Waltham the Boston Manufacturing Company – the first integrated textile mill in the United States.

 

Lyman Estate, Waltham

The city is home to a number of large estates, including Gore Place, a mansion built in 1806 for former Massachusetts governor Christopher Gore, the Robert Treat Paine Estate, a residence designed by architect Henry Hobson Richardson and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted for philanthropist Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (1810–1905), and the Lyman Estate, a 400-acre (1.6 km²) estate built in 1793 by Boston merchant Theodore Lyman.

 

In the year of 1857, The Waltham Model 1857, was a watch made by the American Watch Company in the City of Waltham, Massachusetts in the United States of America.

 

In the late 19th and early 20th century, Waltham was home to the brass era automobile manufacturer Metz, where the first production motorcycle in the U.S. was built.

 

Waltham is the home of the Walter E. Fernald State School, the western hemisphere's oldest publicly funded institution serving people with developmental disabilities.

 

It is bordered to the west by Weston and Lincoln, to the south by Newton, to the east by Belmont and Watertown, and to the north by Lexington, all part of Greater Boston.