Massachusetts
Middlesex
Town of Lexington

Lexington

Lexington is a northwestern suburb of in . The Lexington 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".
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  • Type: Town with 30,200 residents
  • Description: town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Cambridge Farms”, “Lex”, “Lexington Centre”, “Lexington Village”, “Lexington, MA”, “Lexington, Massachusetts”, and “Shot heard ‘round the world”
  • Postal codes: 02420 and 02421

Places of Interest

Highlights include Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library and Lexington Battle Green.

Museum
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The Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, formerly known as the National Heritage Museum and the Museum of Our National Heritage, is a museum located in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Park
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The , 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.

Museum
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is a historic American Revolutionary War site associated with the revolution's very first battle, the 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Munroe station.

Neighborhood
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was a commuter rail station in the Munroe Hill neighbourhood of Lexington, Massachusetts, serving the Lexington Branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Commuter Rail system. The depot was located near .

Lexington

Latitude
42.4473° or 42° 26′ 50″ north
Longitude
-71.2245° or 71° 13′ 28″ west
Population
30,200
Elevation
213 feet (65 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US LXI
Open location code
87JCCQWG+W5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158918651
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4941935
Wiki­data ID
Q929667
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Armenian—“Lexington” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lexington, Massachusetts”
  • Afrikaans: “Lexington”
  • Arabic: “ليكسينغتون”
  • Armenian: “Լեքսինգթոն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Leksinqton”
  • Bashkir: “Лексингтон”
  • Basque: “Lexington”
  • Belarusian: “Лексінгтан”
  • Bulgarian: “Лексингтън”
  • Catalan: “Lexington”
  • Cebuano: “Lexington”
  • Chechen: “Лексингтон”
  • Chinese: “Lexington”
  • Chinese: “列克星敦”
  • Chinese: “列星敦”
  • Chinese: “列星頓”
  • Czech: “Lexington”
  • Danish: “Lexington”
  • Dutch: “Lexington”
  • Esperanto: “Lexington”
  • Faroese: “Lexington”
  • French: “Lexington”
  • Georgian: “ლექსინგტონი”
  • German: “Lexington”
  • Greek: “Λέξινγκτον”
  • Haitian: “Lexington, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Lexington”
  • Hebrew: “לקסינגטון”
  • Hungarian: “Lexington, MA”
  • Hungarian: “Lexington”
  • Ido: “Lexington, Massachusetts”
  • Ido: “Lexington”
  • Irish: “Lexington, Massachusetts”
  • Irish: “Lexington”
  • Italian: “Lexington”
  • Japanese: “レキシントン (マサチューセッツ州)”
  • Japanese: “レキシントン”
  • Kazakh: “Лексингтон”
  • Kirghiz: “Лексингтон”
  • Korean: “렉싱턴”
  • Latin: “Lexingtonia”
  • Macedonian: “Лексингтон”
  • Mazanderani: “لکسینگتون (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “لکسینگتون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lexington”
  • Moksha: “Лэксингтон”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lexington”
  • Norwegian: “Lexington”
  • Persian: “لکسینگتون، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “لکسینگتون”
  • Polish: “Lexington”
  • Portuguese: “Lexington”
  • Romanian: “Lexington, Massachusetts”
  • Romanian: “Lexington”
  • Russian: “Лексингтон”
  • Sardinian: “Lexington”
  • Scots: “Lexington”
  • Serbian: “Лексингтон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lexington, Massachusetts”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lexington”
  • Silesian: “Lexington”
  • Slovak: “Lexington”
  • Slovenian: “Lexington”
  • Spanish: “Lexington (Massachusetts)”
  • Spanish: “Lexington”
  • Swahili: “Lexington, Massachusetts”
  • Swahili: “Lexington”
  • Swedish: “Lexington, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Lexington”
  • Tatar: “Лексингтон”
  • Tatar: “Лексиңтон”
  • Turkish: “Lexington, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Lexington”
  • Ukrainian: “Лексінгтон”
  • Ukrainian: “Лексінґтон”
  • Urdu: “لیکسنگٹن، میساچوسٹس”
  • Urdu: “لیکسنگٹن”
  • Volapük: “Lexington”
  • Welsh: “Lexington, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Lexington”
  • Western Armenian: “Լեքսինկթըն”
  • “Lexington”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lexington”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.