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Lexington is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, located 10 miles (16 km) from Downtown Boston. The population was 34,454 as of the 2020 census . [ 1 ] The area was originally inhabited by Native Americans, and was first settled by Europeans c. 1642 as a farming community.
The commission was replaced in 1919 by the Massachusetts Department of Public Works (DPW), which became the main state agency overseeing all aspects of road construction and maintenance. [6] The DPW was renamed the Massachusetts Highway Department in 1991.
The Old Belfry is a historic structure on Clarke Street in Lexington, Massachusetts, United States.It stands on Belfry Hill. [1]The belfry was erected at its current location in 1762, but it was moved a few yards away to Lexington Common [2] in 1768, after Jonas Monroe, on whose land it originally stood, wanted the town to pay him taxes for keeping it there. [1]
Boston, Massachusetts: At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews. OL 23272543M. Edwin P. Conklin, Middlesex County and Its People: A History. In Four Volumes. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1927. Samuel Adams Drake, History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County.
The Lexington Battle Green, also known as Lexington Common, is the historic town common of Lexington, Massachusetts, United States. It was at this site that the opening shots of the Battles of Lexington and Concord were fired on April 19, 1775, starting the American Revolutionary War. Now a public park, the common is a National Historic Landmark.
[3] [4] Started soon after the construction of Lexington's first modernist house, [5] Six Moon Hill was the first of many modernist developments in Lexington. Developments that followed include Peacock Farm , started in 1951; Five Fields , also designed by TAC architects and begun in 1951; and the slightly later Turning Mill/Middle Ridge ...
Willard's Woods is a 100-acre (0.40 km 2) conservation area located in Lexington, Massachusetts.It was first founded as a large orchard farm in the 1870s, [1] and has since expanded and become a popular recreational area, with three miles of trails, two streams running through it, a nice boardwalk type path near a pond, a bike path going from opposite ends of the woods, and a variety of plants ...
Hancock St., on the eastern side of Lexington Green 42°26′57″N 71°13′49″W / 42.449167°N 71.230278°W / 42.449167; -71.230278 ( Buckman National Historic Landmark