The Charles River, however, snakes 80 miles from its source at Hopkinton’s Echo Lake to the locks and dam where it spills ...

5. Follow the Dr. Paul Dudley White Charles River Bike Path from the Museum of Science to the Galen Street Bridge in Watertown for a scenic 17-mile loop along both shores of the Charles River. The ...

The Charles began taking a new course in 1634, when entrepreneur Thomas Mayhew erected a small stone dam in Watertown to power a grist mill, making the river one of the first in the country to be ...

A dam that has stood on the Charles River since 1934 will be removed after a vote from town leaders in Natick, Massachusetts; if not removed, the dam was in need of major repairs, as a breach of ...