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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
Area code 774 was added to the 508 numbering plan area on May 2, 2001, forming an overlay complex and making ten-digit dialing mandatory for all calls. Some mobile telephone numbers assigned in the 1990s in communities in the former northern half of 508 (now the 978 area code) kept the area code after the split.
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]
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.
Book publisher D.C. Heath was founded 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 several historically significant modernist communities built by notable
Numbering plan areas and area codes since May 2001 September 1997 [1] – May 2001 [2] July 1988 [3] – September 1997 [4] [5] October 1947 – July 1988 [6]. Massachusetts is divided into five distinct numbering plan areas (NPAs), which are served by nine area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), [7] organized as four overlay complexes and a single-area code NPA.
This is a list of notable people from Lexington, Massachusetts. It includes people who were born or raised in, lived in, or spent significant portions of their lives in Lexington, or for whom Lexington is a significant part of their identity. This list is in order by primary field of notability and then in alphabetical order by last name.
Lexington Centre (often spelled Center since the 1980s), often simply called the Centre by locals, is both the geographic and retail center of Lexington, Massachusetts on Massachusetts Avenue. It is home to numerous restaurants, banks, retail shops, beauty parlors, a small cinema, a museum, the Cary Memorial Library , and many historic ...