Lexington and Concord

Lexington and Concord are two towns located in the Middlesex county of Massachusetts, just northwest of Boston. The two towns are well known as the site of the first shots of the American Revolutionary War, on April 19, 1775, where the "Shot heard 'round the world" took place. Lexington is home to Minute Man National Historical Park.
==Trivia==
*When Lexington was first founded in 1642, it was an outlying part of the town (now city) of Cambridge called Cambridge Farms, but as the population grew, Cambridge Farms became its own separate parish with its own church and minister, though they were still under jurisdiction of the town of Cambridge itself. In 1713, Cambridge Farms became its own separate town from Cambridge, and that is when Cambridge Farms changed its name to Lexington, however, it is disputed on where Lexington's name came from. One view is that the town was named in honor of Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexington, a British diplomat, and the other view is that it was named after a village in central England called Lexington, whose name was first recorded in William the Conqueror's Domesday Book as Laxintone, and may have been derived from the Old English word Leaxingatūn, meaning the 'farmstead or estate of the people of a man called Leaxa'. 
**In the years following the 1775 Battle of Lexington, the Massachusetts town became the namesake of Kentucky's second largest city, as well as 23 other settlements across the United States, including one in Alabama, one in California, one in Georgia, one in Illinois, two in Indiana, one in Kansas, one in Maine, one in Michigan, one in Minnesota, one in Mississippi, one in Missouri, one in Nebraska, one in New York, one in North Carolina, one in Ohio, one in Oklahoma, one in Oregon, one in South Carolina (which is also the name of the county it is the county seat of), one in Tennessee, one in Texas, one in Virginia and one in Washington state.
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