Lexington, Massachusetts Lexington, Massachusetts Statue of Captain John Parker and Hayes Memorial Fountain on Lexington Common, by H.
Statue of Captain John Parker and Hayes Memorial Fountain on Lexington Common, by H.
Flag of Lexington, Massachusetts Flag Official seal of Lexington, Massachusetts Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts Lexington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Settled in 1641, it is jubilated as the site of the first shots of the American Revolutionary War, in the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775.
Lexington was first settled about 1642 as part of Cambridge, Massachusetts. What is now Lexington was then incorporated as a church, called Cambridge Farms, in 1691.
Lexington was incorporated as a separate town in 1713.
Some citizens believe that it was titled in honor of Lord Lexington, an English peer. Some, on the other hand, believe that it was titled after Lexington (which was pronounced and is today spelled Laxton) in Nottinghamshire, England. In the early colonial days, Vine Brook, which runs through Lexington, Burlington, and Bedford, and then empties into the Shawsheen River, was a focal point of the farming and trade of the town.
For decades, Lexington interval modestly while remaining largely a farming community, providing Boston with much of its produce.
Lexington began to prosper, helped by its adjacency to Boston, and having a rail line (originally the Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad, later the Boston and Maine Railroad) service its people and businesses, beginning in 1846 (As of 2015, the Minuteman Bikeway is situated in the site of the former rail line).
For many years, East Lexington was considered a separate village from the rest of the town, though it still had the same officers and Town Hall.
Most of the farms of Lexington became housing developments by the end of the 1960s.
Lexington, as well as many of the suburbs along the Route 128 corridor, experienced a jump in populace in the 1960s and 70s, due to the high-tech boom.
Property values in the town soared, and the school fitness became nationally recognized for its excellence. The town participates in the METCO program, which buses minority students from Boston to suburban suburbs to receive better educational opportunities than those available to them in the Boston Public Schools. On April 19, 1775, what many regard as the first battle of the American Revolutionary War was a battle at Lexington.
Lexington was the Cold War locale of the USAF "Experimental SAGE Subsector" for testing a prototype IBM computer that appeared in July 1955 for evolution of a computerized "national air defense network" (the namesake "Lexington Discrimination System" for incoming ICBM warheads was advanced in the late 1960s). Topography of Lexington and environs Lexington is positioned at 42 26 39 N 71 13 36 W (42.444345, -71.226928). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 16.5 square miles (42.8 km ), of which 16.4 square miles (42.5 km ) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.4 km ), or 0.85%, is water.
Lexington borders the following towns: Burlington, Woburn, Winchester, Arlington, Belmont, Waltham, Lincoln, and Bedford.
Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. According to a 2012 estimate, the median income for a homehold in the town was $191,350, and the median income for a family was $218,890.
In 2010, 20% of the inhabitants of Lexington were born outside of the United States. Main article: Lexington Public Schools (Massachusetts) Lexington's enhance education fitness includes six elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school.
Overall the Lexington school precinct is among the top ranked in the state and nationally.
Bridge Elementary School and Jonas Clarke Middle School were High Performing National Blue Ribbon Schools in 2010 and 2013 in the order given. They have been ranked as top schools based on Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test scores.
Lexington High School was ranked in 2014 as the 19th best high school in the country by U.S.
News. In 2012 and again in 2017, Lexington High School won the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Bowl competition. In addition to Lexington High School, students may attend Minuteman Regional High School.
Lexington High School Lexington Christian Academy Lexington Montessori School The Waldorf School of Lexington The Lexington Chinese School (LCS; ) holds its classes at Belmont High School in Belmont. In 2003 over 400 students attended classes at LCS, held on Sundays. Engraved memorial bricks lining the Lexington Depot sidewalk In 1891 it was brought back to this hill by the Lexington Historical Society.
Lexington is home to the Lexington Symphony, which performs regularly at Cary Hall. Lexington is most well known for its history and is home to many historical buildings, parks, and monuments, most dating from Colonial and Revolutionary times.
One of the most prominent historical landmarks, positioned in Lexington Centre, is the Common, or as it later became known, the Battle Green, where the battle was fought, and a statue of John Parker, captain of the Lexington militia stands.
Another meaningful historical monument is the Revolutionary Monument, the nation's earliest standing war memorial (completed on July 4, 1799) and the gravesite of those colonists slain in the Battle of Lexington.
Lexington Memorial, the Centre Depot (old Boston and Maine train station, today the command posts of the town Historical Society), Follen Church (the earliest standing church building in Lexington, assembled in 1839), and the Mulliken White Oak (one of Lexington's most distinguished and earliest trees). Lexington is also home, along with neighboring Lincoln and close-by Concord to the 900-acre (3.6 km2) Minute Man National Historical Park.
Lexington's town center is home to various dining opportunities, fine art arcades, retail shopping, a small cinema, the Cary Memorial Library, the Minuteman Bikeway, Depot Square, and many of the aforementioned historical landmarks.
Arlington's Great Meadows, is a widespread meadow and marshland positioned in East Lexington, but owned by the town of Arlington, Lexington's neighbor to the east.
The Lexington Community Center is a meeting place for Lexington residents.
Notable Lexington neighborhoods include Lexington Centre, Meriam Hill (and Granny Hill), Irish Village, Loring Hill, Belfry Hill, Munroe Hill, Countryside (sometimes referred to as "Scotland"), the Munroe District, the Manor Section, Four Corners, Grapevine Corner, Woodhaven, and East Lexington (fondly "East Village", or "The East End").
The "Old Reservoir," sometimes referred to by locals as "The Res," used to furnish drinking water to Lexington inhabitants and encircling areas.
Heath was established in 1885 at 125 Spring Street in Lexington, near the present day intersection of Route 128 and MA Route 2, and was headquartered on that spot until its 1995 sale to Houghton Mifflin.
Lexington is home to a several historically momentous modernist communities assembled by notable architects.
The Lexington Community Center, opened on October 17, 2015.
Rollie Massimino, led Villanova Wildcats to basketball nationwide championship in 1985, former Lexington High School teacher and coach John Parker, captain of the Lexington militia at the Battle of Lexington & Concord Charles Ponzi, con man, bought mansion in Lexington amid 1920 (see Ponzi scheme) Lexington is a sister town/city of: "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Lexington town, Middlesex County, Massachusetts".
Tracing the Past in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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"1980 Enumeration of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1950 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1920 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1890 Enumeration of the Population" (PDF).
"1870 Enumeration of the Population" (PDF).
"1860 Census" (PDF).
"1850 Census" (PDF).
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"QT-P8: Race Reporting for the Asian Population by Selected
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"Lexington, MA 02421 Zip Code Detailed Profile".
"Lexington, MA Income and Careers".
"2010 National Blue Ribbon Exemplary High Performing Schools" (PDF).
"2013 National Blue Ribbon Exemplary High Performing Schools" (PDF).
Past High School National Science Bowl Winners (1991 - 2016) | U.S.
Lexington Chinese School.
"Lexington Chinese School 221 Concord Ave.
"Lexington Symphony | Concert Venue: Cary Memorial Hall".
"Cary Hall | Lexington Symphony Czechs & Diamonds February 11".
We Are Lexington, MA - Celebrating 300 Years, "The Oldest Tree in Lexington" by Nell Walker.
Willards Woods Conservation Area Kathleen Burge, Boston Globe, Out to save the undivided home, 2011 Feb 24 "29 Are Chosen for Fellowships From the Mac - Arthur Foundation", The New York Times, June 2, 1998, retrieved January 29, 2012 Hudson, Charles (1913), History of the town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from its first settlement to 1868, Houghton Mifflin, p.
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Lexington's Sister Cities History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume 1 (A-H), Volume 2 (L-W) compiled by Samuel Adams Drake, presented 1879 and 1880.
Lexington section by Charles Hudson in volume 2 pages 9 33 (note page 9 missing).
History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts,Volume 1 - History, Volume2 - Genealogies, by Charles Hudson, presented 1913.
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