Celebrate Lexington, MA with LEX250

July 3, 2025

Lexington in Action: Still Shaping History for Lex250

While Lexington celebrated Lex250 in April 2025, the town continues to honor the people and places that were significant to the Revolution, with four major projects.  Lexington Depot Museum The…

January 28, 2025

Explore the Lexington Sites of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

Paul Revere is one of the most significant figures of the American Revolution. Learn more about his midnight ride and some of the sites in Lexington that played an important…

December 31, 2024

Lexington, MA: A Historic Year in Review

In case you missed any of our blogs about our history and history-related events in 2024, here is a recap of the best highlights this year. A Review of Patriots’…

October 23, 2024

Counting Down to Lex250: 4 Key Lexington Projects

As we get closer to Lex250 in April 2025, let’s take a look at how Lexington is continuing to plan for the upcoming celebration. Discover more about four projects, led…

September 1, 2024

The Story of Marquis de Lafayette’s Visit to Lexington

In September, Lexington will continue its Lex250 celebrations with the Reenactment of Marquis de Lafayette’s 1824 Lexington Visit. Learn more about Marquis de Lafayette and why he was so influential…

August 14, 2024

Follow the Life of a Lexington, MA Reenactor

Do you ever wonder what it’s like to be a Lexington reenactor? Here is everything you should know about reenactors in Lexington, MA from what they do, what the job…

March 20, 2024

Travel Back in Time to Patriots’ Day

Every April, Massachusetts residents celebrate Patriots’ Day, when we commemorate the sacrifices of the militia and Minutemen on this fateful day. Learn more about how Lexington and Massachusetts celebrate this monumental…

November 10, 2023

The Recent History-Makers from Lexington

In 2022, Carolyn Bertozzi, a Lexington High School graduate from the Class of 1984, made history when she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “bioorthogonal chemistry” after previously having…

November 10, 2023

Lexington – The Town of History-Makers

“Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”  – Captain John Parker On April 19, 1775, seventy-seven “minutemen”…