Welcome !


Welcome to the Gigabits for Lexington website. Although started in support of Lexington's application to become one of the towns in the Google Fiber For Communities trial, we would like to continue this website whether or not we win this opportunity to explore the next generation of speed for Internet communications.

[Note: The registration facility described in this paragraph is not implemented yet, although it is our intent to open up participation in the future] Although this website will be available for all to read, we encourage you to register with us so that you can join in the creative process and contribute new articles for discussion. To do that, please fill out the registration form. Once we have approved this application, you will be able to compose your own articles about ideas for what you would do with the ability to communicate 1,000 times faster than is common today.

As a start, we have created several articles describing the Town of Lexington and how we are currently stretching our current use of existing bandwidths in anticipation of the future.



History in Lexington

Lexington Massachusetts is famous for being the place where the First Shot of the American Revolution was fired.  We are very proud of our place in history and memorialize this event every year on Patriots Day, a unique holiday in Massachusetts.

The Lexington Historical Society website covers a wide array of topics relating to Lexington History, the historical places you can visit in Lexington, the Society's work to preserve and inform people about the historical aspects of Lexington, and many engaging activities about Lexington history written for children of all ages.

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Another unique aspect of Lexington are the group of people committed to Historical Reenactments..  The most prominent such organization is the Lexington Minutemen, a group of  volunteers who assume the persona of the 77 colonists and their families who were on the Lexington Green on April 19, 1775.  An addition group of 150 volunteers from His Majesty's 10th Regiment of Foot assume the persona of the British Redcoats. On Patriots' Day at the historically accurate time of 5:45am, up to 10,000 people each year witness the reenactment of the Battle of Lexington.


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Throughout the year History continues to be a major theme of life in Lexington.  Guided tours of the historic houses in Lexington are lead by guides dressed in historically accurate attire -- some of whom assume the dramatic roles of characters from the Revolutionary period in an annual performance of In Their Own Words. 


Finally, The Town of Lexington has created a site that summarizes many of the historical sites in Lexington, as well as other things for tourists to see and do in Lexington.

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