A Quincentennial Commemorative to Christopher Columbus
The European discoverer of the New World in 1492
Commissioned "The Admiral of the Ocean Sea"
An Italian Renaissance sailor whose great imagination, courage and navigational skills led to . . . — — Map (db m179145) HM
City of Waltham Centennial Memorial
1884 — 1984
Waltham Elected Officials – 1984
Mayor
Arthur J. Clark
Councillors-at-Large
Joseph J. Alessandro · John M. Duffy · Thomas R. Ferrick · Paul W. Giunta · James E. Regan · . . . — — Map (db m179146) HM
Through this place passed General Henry Knox in the winter of 1775 – 1776 to deliver to General George Washington at Cambridge the train of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga used to force the British Army to evacuate Boston. Erected by the . . . — — Map (db m18119) HM
(north face)
Commissioned Major General of US Volunteers MDCCCLXI
Command of Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac
Command of the Defences of Washington
Command of the Department of the Gulf
(south face)
Speaker Massachusetts . . . — — Map (db m179165) HM WM
This mall dedicated in honor of the men and women of this community who served our country in all wars thus preserving our freedom and our way of life
Erected by the City of Waltham 1973 — — Map (db m179141) HM
In grateful remembrance of Waltham men and men who served for Waltham in the Revolutionary War.
( 293 names are listed )
Sponsored by the Dorothy Brewer Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Erected A.D. 1940 by the City of . . . — — Map (db m179187) WM
(northern face)
To the Nation's Defenders
Francis H. Priest • Nahum Rand • F.P.H. Rogers • James Roony • Horace Sanderson • Samuel G. Savage • Robert C. Sherman • Simeon Smith • William A. Smith • Thomas E. Stickney • George G. . . . — — Map (db m179177) WM
On this site stood the Roberts Paper Mill, a prominent example of a thriving industry in Waltham in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
One can see the prosperity that the mills generated by visiting Gore Place,
Main Street in . . . — — Map (db m222225) HM
Served Metropolitan State Hospital and the Fernald School
Burials from 1947 to 1970 - c. 310 burials
C on the tombstones indicates Catholic Burials (right side of cemetary from Carriage Rd.)
P on the tombstones indicates Protestant . . . — — Map (db m244496) HM
Grove Hill Cemetery is the resting place for the family gravesite of Congressman, Mass. Governor, and Civil War General Nathaniel P. Banks.
The Hiram and Gardner Banks Family gravesites are nearby. There are also more than 100 other Civil War . . . — — Map (db m244983) HM