Watertown

Historical marker location:

across from 719 Main Street, Watertown, Massachusetts

( Marker is on Main Street (Massachusetts Route 20), on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1930

1630 - 1930.

In 1837, Harvard University held a "prostitute parade" where students marched through Boston with prostitutes to protest a law that would have made it illegal to hire women for "immoral purposes."