Lincoln

Maybe you’ve never heard of sleepy Concord population 18,000, but your life has certainly been impacted by it. This is where "the shot heard round the world" was fired in the spring of 1775, setting off a chain of events that would eventually lead to the creation of the United States.
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  • Type: Village with 7,010 residents
  • Description: town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Lincoln Center”, “Lincoln Centre”, “Lincoln, MA”, and “Lincoln, Massachusetts”
  • Postal code: 01773

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lincoln Public Library and First Parish in Lincoln.

Library
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is a public library at 3 Bedford Road in Lincoln, Massachusetts. The library collection began in the late 1700s with a private subscription library started by Reverend Charles Stearns, and later a donation by Eliza Farrar of her husband, Professor John Farrar's library collection.

Place of worship
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is a place of worship.

Building
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is the home of the Bemis Lecture Series and the offices of the Lincoln Council on Aging, and is located in the town of Lincoln, Massachusetts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Concord and Weston.

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Maybe you’ve never heard of sleepy population 18,000, but your life has certainly been impacted by it. This is where "the shot heard round the world" was fired in the spring of 1775, setting off a chain of events that would eventually lead to the creation of the United States.

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is a town in with a population of 12,000. is the most affluent place in Massachusetts and one of the most affluent in the United States. It is home to Regis College.

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is a northwestern suburb of in . The Green is where the first shot of the American Revolution was fired and the first blood shed, and is known as "the Birthplace of American Liberty".

Lincoln

Latitude
42.42593° or 42° 25′ 33″ north
Longitude
-71.30395° or 71° 18′ 14″ west
Population
7,010
Elevation
253 feet (77 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US LCQ
Open location code
87JCCMGW+9C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158868007
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
4942021
Wiki­data ID
Q663035
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Lincoln” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لينكولن”
  • Armenian: “Լինկոլն”
  • Basque: “Lincoln”
  • Belarusian: “Лінкальн”
  • Catalan: “Lincoln”
  • Cebuano: “Lincoln”
  • Chechen: “Линкольн”
  • Chinese: “林肯”
  • Chinese: “林肯鎮”
  • Czech: “Lincoln”
  • Dutch: “Lincoln”
  • Estonian: “Lincoln”
  • Finnish: “Lincoln”
  • French: “Lincoln”
  • Galician: “Lincoln”
  • German: “Lincoln”
  • Greek: “Λίνκολν”
  • Haitian: “Lincoln, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Lincoln”
  • Hebrew: “לינקולן”
  • Irish: “Lincoln”
  • Italian: “Lincoln”
  • Japanese: “リンカーン”
  • Kazakh: “Линкольн”
  • Kirghiz: “Линкольн”
  • Korean: “링컨”
  • Mazanderani: “لینکلن (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “لینکلن”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lincoln”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lincoln”
  • Norwegian: “Lincoln”
  • Persian: “لینکلن”
  • Persian: “لینکولن، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “لینکولن”
  • Polish: “Lincoln”
  • Portuguese: “Lincoln”
  • Romanian: “Lincoln, Massachusetts”
  • Romanian: “Lincoln”
  • Russian: “Линкольн”
  • Silesian: “Lincoln”
  • Slovak: “Lincoln”
  • Slovenian: “Lincoln”
  • Spanish: “Lincoln (Massachusetts)”
  • Spanish: “Lincoln”
  • Swahili: “Lincoln, Massachusetts”
  • Swahili: “Lincoln”
  • Swedish: “Lincoln, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Lincoln”
  • Tatar: “Линкольн”
  • Turkish: “Lincoln, MA”
  • Turkish: “Lincoln, Mass.”
  • Turkish: “Lincoln, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Lincoln”
  • Ukrainian: “Лінкольн”
  • Urdu: “لنکن، میساچوسٹس”
  • Urdu: “لنکن”
  • Volapük: “Lincoln”
  • Welsh: “Lincoln, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Lincoln”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Lincoln Center Historic District and Town Hill Cemetery.

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