July 29, 2010: Rep. Markey meets with Waltham resident, Sam Richman, in the Washington office. Sam spent a week in Washington as one of two elected student Senators representing Massachusetts at the 2010 Boys Nation Conference.

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Commonwealth Communities: Waltham

Form of Government: Mayor-Council

2000 Population: 59,226

Fun Facts!

1. Waltham is known as Watch City because it was for many years a center of the watch industry in America.

2. Boston merchant Francis Cabot Lowell founded the nation's first public company in Waltham in the year 1814, when he built a textile factory along the river

3. In 1820, the first industrial strike in the nation was led by Waltham women against unfair wage reductions at the Boston Manufacturing Company.

4. In 1835, Dr. Francis F. Field (a dentist) invented a process for making chalk crayons in Waltham.

5. The Science-Fiction writer, Isaac Asimov resided in Waltham.

6. Carroll Spinney, better known as Big Bird on Sesame Street, was born in Waltham in 1933.

7. Brandeis University and Bentley College are both located in Waltham.