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0 Visitors Center offers information and
hospitality between 9 00 A.M and 5,00 P.M
362 days a year.
0 The Minuteman Bikeway, a hugely popular
rail -trail, is in the Rail Trail Hall of Fame
f) Vine Brook provided water power for the
town in the 17th and 16th centuries It flows
from the Old Reservoir runs under Lexington
Center, and eventually empties into the
Shawsheen River.
01 -ower Vine Brook conservation area
covers 108 forested acres and includes 2.1
miles of trails Portions of Routes A and G
follow a paved path running along Vine Brook
itself with other trails leading to old sand and
gravel pits now ponds
0 During Word War 1i "victory gardens` were
set up as a way to expand the public food
supply. The Victory Garden Site at the former
Lexington Gardens was the focus of a PBS TV
show that began in the 1970s.The garden was
maintained until the property was sold.
()Today s North Street conservation area
was an operating sand pit as recency as the
1950s,when it supplied sand for the construe,
tion of parts of Route 128 Now a large pond
inhabits the 26 -acre forest and wildlife habitat
SaWillard's Woods conservation area
comprises 107 acres of fields, meadows pine
groves, wetlands, and a picnic area Much of
Willard a Woods is a kettle hole a geo ogical
depression formed about 90.000 years ago by
the melting of a mass of glacial ice
0 Chiesa Farm conservation area has 18
acres of pasture along Adams Street Traces of
a ring tramped by the farri s horses are visitt'
near where the trail enters the street
0 Parker Meadow conservation area,
comprising 17 acres of fields, forest and
wetlands was farmed early in the 17th century
It is named for a later owner who was killed on
Lexington Green an Apnj 19, 1775. In the early
1980s the Lexington Conservation Commis-
sion built a pond around a spring there to
protect the watershed and as a habitat for
wildlife A granite bench overlooks the pond,
0, Belfry Hill Park contains a replica of the
bell tower that stood on the Green from 1767
to 1797 On April 19, 1775, the bell sounded
the alarm that the Regulars were com;ng.
G)LIncoln Park, reclaimed in the 1980s from
the old town dump and landfill, is now a
handicapped -accessible open space with
walking paths The Teresa & Roberta Lee
Fitness and Nature Path, with 16 self-directed
fitness stations winds through the park. The
Lincoln Street recreation area includes sports
fields and a playground
Q -)The Old Reservoir known locally today as
-The Res,' once provided drinking water to
Lexington and the surrounding areas Now it's
a popular site for swimming and skating
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