Watertown (city), New York
Watertown Watertown enhance square Watertown enhance square Official seal of Watertown Watertown is positioned in New York Watertown - Watertown Location in the state of New York State New York Watertown is a town/city in the state of New York and the governmental center of county of Jefferson County.
It is situated approximately 20 miles (35 km) south of the Thousand Islands, and 70 miles north of Syracuse, New York.
Named after the many falls positioned on the Black River, the town/city developed early in the 19th century as a manufacturing center.
From years of generating industrialized wealth, in the early 20th century the town/city was said to have more millionaires per capita than any other town/city in the nation.
Geographically, Watertown is positioned in the central part of Jefferson County.
It lies 72 miles (116 km) northeast of Syracuse, New York and 31 miles (50 km) south of the Ontario border.
The town/city is served by Watertown International Airport.
It has the longest continually operating county fair in the United States and holds the Red and Black football franchise, the earliest surviving semi-professional team in the United States.
The Black River - Prelucrare 3 - D pentru Watertown (Details) - New The town/city of Watertown was settled in 1800 by pioneers from New Hampshire, most prominently Hart Massey, Henry Coffeen, and Zachariah Butterfield, part of a large migration into New York from New England after the American Revolutionary War.
The drop in the Black River at Watertown's locale provided abundant water power for early industry.
In 1851, the town/city was joined to the state by the barns .
Watertown claims that Rodman native Frank W.
Woolworth left Watertown and opened his first store in Utica, New York in 1879.
Among the many manufacturing businesses was the Davis Sewing Machine Company, which originated in Watertown.
In 1805 Watertown became the governmental center of county of Jefferson County, New York, and it was made an incorporated village in 1816.
In 1869, Watertown was incorporated as a city.
In 1920, the town/city adopted a town/city manager style of government.
The Jefferson County Courthouse Complex is an example of the substantial architecture of the city, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
An early industrialized city that earned great richness for many of its people by the turn of the 20th century, Watertown also advanced an educated experienced class of doctors and lawyers.
A number of factors affected Watertown's progress.
In the deindustrialization of the mid-20th century, Watertown suffered economic and populace declines.
The town/city has been working in recent decades to redevelop its downtown and revive the heart of the city.
Since the town/city is positioned just 25 miles (40 km) from the global boundary via the Thousand Islands Bridge, shopping by Canadian visitors is an meaningful part of the small-town economy.
Watertown, South Dakota was titled in the city's honor.
Flower Memorial Library, Jefferson County Courthouse Complex, Paddock Mansion, Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Emma Flower Taylor Mansion, Thomas Memorial AME Zion Church, Trinity Episcopal Church and Parish House, and Watertown Masonic Temple are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Downtown Watertown According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 9.3 square miles (24 km2).
Businesses harnessed water power to problematic one of the early industrialized centers in New York.
Jefferson Community College (JCC) is positioned in the part of the town/city near the fairgrounds.
Watertown has a humid continental climate (Koppen: Dfb), with cold, snowy winters and warm, wet summers. Unless otherwise noted, all figures cited below are from the GHCN station positioned closer to downtown.
Winters can be very cold: temperatures remain at or below the freezing mark on an average 54 days annually, and fall to 0 F ( 18 C) or below on an average 20 evenings. Moreover, Watertown is positioned in plant hardiness zone 4b, which means that one can expect the temperature to drop below 20 F ( 29 C) at least once per year. Summers are mild to warm, and temperatures of 90 F (32 C) or above on average occur on only 3.1 days annually.
Precipitation averages 43.1 inches (1,090 mm), and is distributed fairly uniformly throughout the year, with slightly more amid autumn and slightly less amid spring and late winter. Since Watertown is situated near the easterly edge of Lake Ontario, it receives a bountiful amount of lake-effect snow, averaging 112 inches (280 cm) of snow flurry per winter.
Climate data for Watertown, New York (GHCN station, 151.5 m (497 ft) AMSL), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1893 present Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 11.9 9.8 6.1 1.6 0 0 0 0 0 0.2 3.3 10.5 43.4 Climate data for Watertown International Airport, New York (96.9 m (318 ft) AMSL), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1949 present New York State Zoo at Thompson Park.
Founded in 1920, the mission of the New York State Zoo is to promote the conservation of wildlife and wild places by helping improve members build positive sustainable relationships with nature.
The historic Thompson Park itself is a large, city-owned enhance park featuring tennis courts, playgrounds, a enhance pool, multiple picnic areas, large open fields which host various sports and activities, an 18-hole golf course, multiple hiking trails, and many picturesque views of the town/city of Watertown and encircling areas due to its very high elevation.
Olmsted, a prolific landscape architect. During the considerably snowy winters in Watertown, the park offers many large hills for sledding, as well as multiple cross-country skiing trails throughout the park and encircling forests.
Located between the Town Square and Community College, the fairground each year hosts the Jefferson County Fair, which is the earliest continually operating fair in America. The fair has a heavy focus on small-town agriculture, especially small-town dairy and livestock farming, maple syrup production, and wineries. The fairgrounds also offers many sporting fields for various small-town sporting affairs, most prominently Watertown's own semi-professional football team, the Watertown Red & Black, which is the country's longest-running semi-professional football program.
In addition, a enhance pool, skateboarding park, picnic areas, hiking trails, and an indoor ice-skating rink are featured inside the fairgrounds. In the Spring of 2015 the Watertown Bucks launched their debut season in the newly formed North Country Baseball League which marks the 1st time experienced baseball returned to town/city in over 15 years.
Although not positioned inside the city, Watertown is the closest American town/city to the well-known Thousand Islands Region, as well as the prominent sport-fishing and diving region known as the Golden Crescent, which extends from Henderson Harbor to the Thousand Islands. Being inside 30 miles of these regions makes the town/city a prominent destination and stopping point for tourists amid the summer. The Farm and Crafters Market in Watertown, where farmers, vendors, bakers, and many the rest set up an open market every Wednesday from 6 AM to 3 PM, the Wednesday after Memorial Day to the 1st Wednesday in October all along Washington Street to advertise and sell their produce.
Watertown is served by the Watertown City School District.
Wiley Intermediate School, Case Middle School, Watertown High School, and Immaculate Heart Central Elementary, Intermediate, and Junior and Senior High Schools, the Catholic and secular educational establishments. There is also a Faith Fellowship Christian School.
Jefferson Community College is a two-year college positioned in the town/city as well.
The small-town newspaper, the Watertown Daily Times, is presented seven days a week and serves Jefferson, St.
The Watertown market is served by four commercial tv stations.
The earliest is Carthage-licensed, CBS-affiliated WCNY-TV (channel 7), put on the air in 1954 by the publishers of the Watertown Daily Times.
In 2001, United Communications entered into an agreement with Smith Broadcasting to operate a Fox network partner with low power transmitters in Watertown and Massena.
Watertown is also served by PBS member stations WPBS-DT/WNPI-DT (channels 16/18), NBC partner WVNC-LD (channel 45) and ABC partner WWTI-TV (channel 50), which also operates the area's CW partner through The CW Plus.
Watertown was the hub of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad, which was later combined into the New York Central Railroad network.
Watertown sat at the junction of five different lines, as trains from Syracuse, Rome, Oswego and Utica passed through Watertown on their way to points along the St.
The Watertown passenger station, situated along the Black River behind Public Square at what is now J.B.
Wise Place, was described as among the finest in the New York Central system.
However, with the diminish in travel by rail after World War II, passenger service to Watertown was ended in the 1950s and the station itself torn down to make way for a parking lot.
Although the rail network is greatly attenuated compared to its peak in the early 20th century, CSX Transportation still transports freight by rail through Watertown.
Interstate 81 runs through the Watertown area.
Interstate 81 passes just to the west of the town/city of Watertown, near Salmon Run Mall.
Route 11 runs from easterly New Orleans, Louisiana, to its northern end at the Canada US border in Rouses Point, New York.
US 11 runs north-south through the town/city of Watertown.
Many state highways converge on the city.
New York State Route 3 is an east-west route that begins in Sterling and heads north and east to Watertown.
NY 3 heads east into Watertown, overlapping with both US 11 and NY 12 through downtown before to leaving the town/city to the northeast to head through the Adirondacks to Plattsburgh.
New York State Route 12 is a north-south route through the city, extending northward to Clayton then following the St.
New York State Route 12 - F is a spur connecting NY 12 in downtown Watertown to NY 180 near the Watertown International Airport in Dexter.
Samuel Beardsley, New York State Attorney General (1836-1839) and U.S.
Congressman and governor of New York (1892-1895) Denis O'Brien, New York State Attorney General (1883-1887) American writer Fred Exley interval up in Watertown, and the town/city provides the setting for much of his 1968 novel A Fan's Notes.
Watertown was the given setting for the 1990 Bette Midler film Stella.
Little Trees air fresheners were invented in Watertown in 1951; now the town/city is home to the Car-Freshner Corporation command posts and manufacturing plant.
Harry Chapin made a famous quote "I spent a week there one afternoon" about Watertown.
His song "A Better Place to Be" was inspired by a story he heard in Watertown.
Frank Sinatra's 1970 concept album Watertown charts the story of a middle-aged man in Watertown, New York, whose wife has left him with his children.
In the 2005 film Robots, the fictional town of Rivet Town is based on Watertown, where Robots director Chris Wedge lived amid his teens.
In the Law & Order: SVU episode "Selfish", there was a mention of Watertown and Evans Mills as a wanted man had escaped to a cabin there.
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