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Welcome to American Alarms’ business and home security page for Belmont, Massachusetts. This informational page provides important crime data along with additional information for those living in or considering moving to Belmont.
According to the FBI Crime Database for Massachusetts’ 279 cities and towns, Belmont was ranked 188th in “Most Property Damage per 100,000” in 2013 improving from 168th in 2012. It was 185th for “Most Burglaries per 100,000” improving from 96th in 2012.
Based in New England since 1971, we’ve worked in the Belmont area for decades. We know the landscape and we have good relationships with local police and fire officials. Our team of employees (200 strong and growing) live in the communities we serve, this means our customers are our neighbors.
In 1630, forty families arrived in Belmont, naming the settlement Pequosette, after a local native tribe. By 1638, the name was changed to Watertown and the town was ordered to pay a sum to the Pequosette tribe. As the settlement grew it included the present day towns Belmont, Cambridge, Lincoln, Waltham, Watertown and Weston. In 1859, Belmont was incorporated and named after the estate of John Perkins Cushing.
From the time the land was settled and well into the 1900’s Belmont served as a center for agriculture and farming for Boston. Industry was almost solely agriculture until Frederic Tudor, began ice harvesting from Fresh Pond. Once his business became successful, in 1834 he built a railroad from Fresh Pond to his headquarters in Charlestown. This allowed for major trade routes to Boston which allowed Belmont to become the premier provider of agriculture and produce to the city. Until the 1980’s Belmont provided most of Boston’s livestock and produce. Due to this Belmont’s population increased by 90% in the 1920’s and eventually greenhouses were built to support Boston’s food needs.
Now Belmont is primarily a commuter suburb of Boston.
Belmont doesn’t have a battle history like many of surrounding towns, however it does have historic homes. Both the Redtop and the Edwin O. Reischauer Memorial House are located in Belmont as well as historic train stations. Redtop is the home of William Dean Howells, a famous author from the nineteenth and twentieth century’s, famous for being the editor for the magazine “Atlantic Monthly” which was started by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow among others. Mark Twain is also known to have visited the house eight times.
Carlton Fisk a hall of fame catcher lived in Belmont during his playing days with the Boston Red Sox. Over his illustrious career, he was an eleven time All-Star, Rookie of the Year, and won a Gold Glove award.
Dale Murphy has lived in Belmont after retiring from baseball in 1993. Much like Fisk he had an excellent career, winning the MVP award two consecutive years, garnering seven All-Star game appearances, five Gold Glove awards and four Silver Slugger Awards.
James Taylor spent time in Belmont before becoming the famous musician that he became today. He has released sixteen albums, and has had six number one singles. Among his most famous songs are Carolina on My Mind, Fire and Rain, You’ve Got a Friend, How Sweet it is, and Handyman.
Tom Bergeron lived in Belmont for some time after growing up in Haverhill. Bergeron is best known as the host for the shows America’s Funniest Home Videos, and as the host of Dancing With the Stars. He has also won both a daytime and a primetime Emmy Award.
Home security lives at the intersection of technology, service and community. American Alarm provides comprehensive home security systems for people in Belmont because our technology and customer service are unsurpassed, but also because we know their community.
Based in New England since 1971, we’ve worked in the Belmont area for decades. We know the landscape. We have good relationships with local police and fire officials. Our team of employees (200 strong and growing) live in the communities we serve, this means our customers are our neighbors.
Belmont Family Calls American Alarm After Other Alarm Monitoring Company Fails To Be Responsive
American Alarm takes great care to provide quality craftsmanship and responsive service with every home security system we install and/or monitor. Our Security Command Center has one of the lowest response rates in the industry for alarm monitoring. In less than 20 seconds our trained operators are on the line with the proper authorities insuring that our customers are safe.
Unfortunately a Belmont family found out the hard way that their existing alarm monitoring company wasn’t as responsive. In this case, the fire department was almost at the scene before the alarm monitoring company made contact because the owners’ daughter happened to be home and called the fire department herself. If no one had been home the amount of damage would have been greater than it was.
Since then we have helped this Belmont family by installing a new fire alarm and home security system. They have also opted to have a back-up radio system installed to insure that in the event that their phone line goes down our alarm monitoring professionals will still be able to respond as quickly as possible.
If you want to learn more about the community of Belmont, MA see:
http://www.town.belmont.ma.us/
Belmont, MA, United States
Sales: 781-859-2400
Security Command Center:
781-859-2700
FAX: 781-648-0199
Technical Support: 781-859-2600
Accounting: 781-859-2500
Human Resources: 781-859-2300
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