For years I worked literally across the street from Mt Auburn Cemetery where Julia Ward Howe and Samuel Gridley Howe are buried. I spent my lunch hours exploring that beautiful cemetery where so many famous people are laid to rest.
Perkins is also in Watertown and you'd always see the teachers out with the students - many of whom lost their sight in adulthood and had to learn to use canes and guide dogs. Perkins does wonderful work. Because of the school, Watertown had all the intersection lights wired to sound a ringing alarm when the lights turned red & yellow for "walk" (remember before the walk/don't walk lights?). Now they have the sound of a cuckoo clock which allows the sight impaired to know it's ok to cross.
http://www.perkinsmuseum.org/museum/
Harpers Ferry is the name of longtime "nightclub" in Boston. Ha! I wonder how many know the origin of the name.