• The Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad was a railroad company chartered in 1845 and opened in 1846 that operated in eastern Massachusetts. It and its...
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    day. Lexington began to prosper, helped by its proximity to Boston, and having a rail line (originally the Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad, later...
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    Belmont border to the west.: 247  The Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad (Lexington Branch) opened north from West Cambridge in 1846; the Watertown...
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    owned by the Fitchburg, and was never successful, closing in 1855. The Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad was chartered in 1845 and opened in 1846 as a...
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    Alewife Linear Park Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad St. John the Evangelist Church Walden Street Cattle Pass Watson's Corner Cambridge Police Department...
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    Minuteman Bikeway (category Lexington, Massachusetts)
    a railroad, the path's right-of-way (ROW) was laid out east of Lexington in 1846 by the Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad and west of Lexington in...
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  • These railroads were owned by or closely related to the Boston and Albany Railroad, later part of the New York Central Railroad. These railroads were owned...
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    between the Alewife area and Somerville Junction. Passenger trains from the Lexington Branch and the Central Massachusetts Railroad were diverted to the Fitchburg...
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    when service on the Lexington Branch was suspended. The Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad opened from West Cambridge to Lexington on September 1, 1846...
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  • Boston and Lowell Railroad in North Cambridge and through which it had access to North Station in Boston. From there, the route ran 98.77 miles west through...
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    north, Broadway and Main Street on the south, and the railroad tracks on the west. Most of the streets form a grid aligned with Cambridge Street, which...
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    Alewife Brook Reservation (category Geography of Cambridge, Massachusetts)
    Boston and Lowell Railroad bought the former Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad, by then renamed the Lexington and Arlington Railroad, and constructed...
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  • Lyceum organized. 1846 Cambridge Chronicle begins publication. Stickney-Shepard House built. Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad begins operating. Alvan...
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    the Lexington Branch, located in the East Arlington section of Arlington, Massachusetts. The line opened as the Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad in...
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    Boston and Worcester Street Railway Cambridge Railroad Conway Electric Street Railway Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Grafton and Upton Railroad Metropolitan...
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    Lexington Branch. The station opened in 1846 as part of the Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad. It was damaged by fire on November 24, 1918. Although a...
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    a dozen families in Lexington. On 4 July 1854 the railroad, which would soon be known as the Chicago and Alton, reached Lexington. Suddenly everything...
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    Ariel and Puck. Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad for later history of the right-of-way, including use as a rail trail Sandy River Railroad for later...
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    overall Cambridge water system. Its water is fed to the pond via an aqueduct from the Hobbs Brook and Stony Brook Reservoirs, located in Lexington, Lincoln...
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    two segments in 1870 and 1881 to connect the Lexington Branch and Central Massachusetts Railroad to the Boston and Lowell Railroad. Passenger service lasted...
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    Boston and Lawrence. Lexington and Arlington (Middlesex Central Railroad) The Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad was chartered in 1845 and opened in...
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    Bedford Depot (category Former Boston and Maine Railroad stations)
    Park. The Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad was built to what is now Lexington Center in 1845–46, and bought by the Boston and Lowell Railroad in 1870...
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    Branch split from the Fitchburg Railroad at West Cambridge. In 1870, the Boston and Lowell Railroad (B&L) bought the Lexington Branch to prevent it from becoming...
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    years: Cambridge Village (later Newtown and now Newton) in 1688, Cambridge Farms (now Lexington) in 1712 or 1713, and Little or South Cambridge (now Brighton)...
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    Branch Railroad, running from the Old Colony at Neponset, west to what is now Mattapan station. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad succeeded...
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  • Lexington, North Carolina; no human deaths but well over 100 show animals killed. This likely led to the demise of "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West Show...
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  • neighborhood in northwestern Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Its boundaries are Versailles Road to the south, Norfolk Southern railroad tracks to the north...
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    Louisville Southern Railroad network reached the city in 1888. Its construction commenced in 1884 and ran from Louisville through Shelbyville and Lawrenceburg...
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  • Parkway/State Route 15, West Rock Ridge State Park, in New Haven Pequabuck Tunnel, rail tunnel, originally Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad, Plymouth Pitkin...
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    Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999. Otis K. Rice, The Allegheny Frontier: West Virginia Beginnings...
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