Update on Camp White Watertown, Mass.

I would like to thank Marilynne Roach at the Watertown Historical Society for this new information. I now have the exact location for the Spring Hotel and a better idea for the field used for Camp White. 

The above map shows the Spring Hotel in between Church & Spring Streets. 

This map shows the Lothrop property. Camp White was just to the west of it. Howard St. is shown on the far right of the map. It is hard to read, but the street in the lower left is Bemis St. In modern Watertown Bemis St. is not near the Charles River. This means it has been renamed. On the larger map this street crosses the river. Today Bridge Street does that in about the same spot. It is either the same street or a new bridge was built in the same area. Using these two streets for perspective I would guess that the camp was in the area of todays police station. 

I also learned today that the troops drilled at what would become Whiting Park in a few decades. 

These maps are from: 

http://vc.lib.harvard.edu/vc/deliver/advancedsearch?_collection=maps

DAN SULLIVAN 

(It appears that the Whiting Park references I found had been mistakes) 5/6/13