Watertown, New York
The area was surveyed for the first time by Benjamin Wright in 1796. Watertown had its first residents in 1798. The first people to live in Watertown chose Watertown because of the water power that the Black River gave. Watertown legally became a settlement on March 14, 1800. The city became the county seat of Jefferson County in 1805. Watertown was incorporated as a village in 1816, and became a city in 1869.