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Watertown Arsenal (MA) (Images of America)

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In 1988, the U.S. Base Realignment and Closure Commission announced the closure of the Army Materials Technology Laboratory in Watertown, the last remnant of the famous Watertown Arsenal, which served the rustic from in a while after the War of 1812, through two world wars and much of the Cold War. Known for its contribution to the advance of probably the most so much powerful artillery ever made, including the famed “atomic cannon,” the Watertown Arsenal also earned a reputation in other ways. Within the early 1900s, it hosted famous efficiency experts, such as Frederick Winslow Taylor. Later it pioneered necessary advances in materials science and stood as an important regional institution that employed generations of other people from the Boston area. Along how it hosted many famous visitors, including Franklin D. Roosevelt and Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

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