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| | Lexington Massachusetts, 1890 |
 | | Lexington village, at the centre, and East Lexington, are the post-offices; the railway stations being these, and Munroe's, Pierce's Bridge and North Lexington. |
 | | The Massachusetts House, one of the hotels of this place, was the Massachusetts Building at the Philadelphia Centennial in 1876; having been taken apart, shipped to Lexington, and again put together. |
 | | Lexington was originally known as "Cambridge Farms." Among its early settlers were John Bridge and Herbert Pelham (who had grants of land here in 1642), Edward Winship (who built the first saw mill about 1650), Francis Whitmore, James Cutler and Nathaniel Bowman. |
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