WATERTOWN, a city of northern New York, U.S.A. It has a municipal airport. Pop. (1920) 31,285 (81% native white) ; 193o Federal census 32,205. The Thousand islands are 22 M. N. and the Adirondacks 45 M. N.E. The city's parks include one of 196 ac., two large athletic fields, municipal golf links, swimming pools and children's playgrounds. There is a beautiful public library (1904), a memorial to Governor Roswell P. Flower, whose home was here. Among its products, valued in 1927 at $17,796, are automobile bodies, railroad air-brakes, paper, silk fab rics, knitted silk garments, women's coats, electrical machinery, flour and breakfast foods, thermometers and optical goods. The
city owns a hydro-electric plant of 7,500 h.p. (opened 1927).
Since 192o it has had a city-manager. The charities are financed through a community chest. Watertown was founded in 180o, and named after the water-power, which has been used since 1802. It was incorporated as a city in 1869. The first portable steam engine made in the United States was made in Watertown in 1847, and here in 1878 F. W. Woolworth established the first five and ten cent store.