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Lincoln, Massachusetts
Town
Codman House
Codman House
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Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts
Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts
Coordinates: 42°25′33″N 71°18′16″W / 42.42583°N 71.30444°W / 42.42583; -71.30444Coordinates: 42°25′33″N 71°18′16″W / 42.42583°N 71.30444°W / 42.42583; -71.30444
CountryUnited States
StateMassachusetts
CountyMiddlesex
Settled1650
Incorporated1754
Government
 • TypeOpen town meeting
 • Town
   Administrator		Timothy Higgins
Area
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Elevation
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Population
 (2020)
 • Total7,014
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Time zoneUTC−5 (Eastern)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (Eastern)
ZIP Codes
Area code(s)339/781
FIPS code25-35425
GNIS feature ID0619402
Websitewww.lincolntown.org

Lincoln is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 7,014 according to the 2020 United States census, including residents of Hanscom Air Force Base who live within town limits. The town, located in the MetroWest region of Boston's suburbs, has a large amount of colonial history and a sizeable amount of public conservation land.

History

Lincoln was settled by Europeans in 1654, as a part of Concord. The majority of Lincoln was formed by splitting off a substantial piece of southeast Concord and incorporated as a separate town in 1754. Due to their "difficulties and inconveniences by reason of their distance from the places of Public Worship in their respective Towns," local inhabitants petitioned the General Court to be set apart as a separate town. Because the new town was composed of parts "nipped" off from the adjacent towns of Concord, Weston (which itself had been part of Watertown) and Lexington (which itself had been part of Cambridge), it was sometimes referred to as "Niptown."[1]

Chambers Russell, a Representative in the Court in Boston, was influential in the town's creation. In gratitude, Russell was asked to name the new town. He chose Lincoln, after his family home in Lincolnshire, England. His homestead in Lincoln was later known as the Codman House property, which was occupied after his death by his relatives, the Codman family.

Lincoln is one of the few American towns named after the county of Lincolnshire, England,[2] and not the Revolutionary War Major General Benjamin Lincoln or President Abraham Lincoln.[3]

Paul Revere was captured by British soldiers in Lincoln on the night of April 18, 1775. Minutemen from Lincoln were the first to arrive to reinforce the colonists protecting American stores of ammunition and arms in Concord. Colonel Abijah Pierce of Lincoln led his troops, armed with a cane. He upgraded his weapon to a British musket after the battle. Five British soldiers who fell in Lincoln are buried in the town cemetery. A substantial portion of the first battle of the Revolutionary War, the battles of Lexington and Concord, was fought in Lincoln.[4]

Reverend Charles Stearns, a Harvard-trained minister, served the Congregational Church in Lincoln from late 1781 until his death 45 years later.

Education

The Lincoln School District operates elementary and middle schools, while the zoned high school is Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, in Sudbury, of the school district of that name.[5]

Lincoln's non-base area is home to one public K–8 school, the Lincoln School. In December 2018, voters in Lincoln approved the construction of a new K–8 school building and a Proposition 2+1⁄2 property tax override to pay for the school.[6] To date $80 million financing has been raised via bond issuance for a $93.9 million renovation project at Lincoln School.[7]

The on-post K–8 Hanscom School of Hanscom Air Force Base, a base which is partially in Lincoln, is operated the Lincoln School District.[8] Dependents of active duty military living on the base are sent to Bedford High School of the Bedford School District. High school students living on the base who are not dependents of active duty military personnel are sent to Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High.[9]

The private school The Carroll School maintains its middle school in Lincoln.[10]

Geography

Lincoln has a total area of 15.0 square miles (39 km2), of which 14.4 square miles (37 km2) is land and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2) is water, representing 4.26% of the town's total area. (Source: United States Census Bureau.)

Demographics

See also: List of Massachusetts locations by per capita income

Template:Historical populations At the 2020 census,[11] there were 7,014 people residing in the town. The racial makeup of the town was 76.2% White, 3.2% African American, 0.2% Native American, 6.4% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 1.0% from other races, and 5.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.3% of the population. The 21.03% drop in population between the 2010 and 2000 censuses was the largest of any municipality in Massachusetts. Diversity in the public schools is higher due to the METCO program.

The majority of the land in the town is zoned for residential and agricultural use.

Points of interest

Transportation

Commuter rail service from Boston's North Station is provided by the MBTA with a stop in Lincoln on its Fitchburg Line.[13] Lincoln was previously home to a second railroad station, Baker Bridge station, which was the site of a deadly 1905 train wreck.[14]

  • The 1988 They Might Be Giants album Lincoln is named after the town, as it is the hometown of both of the band's founding members.
  • Lincoln is featured in the 2013 video game The Last of Us, as well as the 2023 HBO television adaption, although the game indicates that Lincoln is part of Amherst County, which does not exist; the real Amherst is a town approximately 75 miles (120 kilometers) west of Lincoln.

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ↑ An account of the celebration by the town of Lincoln, Mass., April 23rd, 1904, of the 150th anniversary of its incorporation, 1754-1904 p.27 (p.63 of the PDF)
  2. ↑ MacLean, John (1987). A Rich Harvest: The History, Buildings, and People of Lincoln, Massachusetts. Lincoln, Ma: Lincoln Historical Society. pp. 113–114.
  3. ↑ "Town History". Lincoln Historical Society. Archived from the original on November 5, 2012. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
  4. ↑ "The Project Gutenberg eBook of the Battle of April 19, 1775, in Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville and Charlestown, Massachusetts, by Frank Warren Coburn".
  5. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Middlesex County, MA" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. pp. 2-3 (PDF p. 3-4/4). Archived (PDF) from the original on July 22, 2022. Retrieved October 28, 2024. - Text list Archived 2022-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Camero, Holly. "Lincoln voters approve money for school building project". Lincoln Journal. Archived from the original on October 15, 2019. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
  7. ↑ Financial Section and Warrant for the 2022 Annual Town Meeting Lincoln, Massachusetts
  8. ↑ "Hanscom AFB Education". Militaryonesource.mil. Retrieved October 28, 2024. - This is a .mil site.
  9. ↑ "Gordon Optimistic about Renewal of State Aid for Military Affiliated Students". The Bedford Citizen. May 2, 2024. Retrieved October 28, 2024.
  10. ↑ "Home". The Carroll School. Retrieved October 29, 2024. 25 Baker Bridge Road Lincoln, MA 01773
  11. ↑ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  12. ↑ "Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary".
  13. ↑ MBTA website.mbta.com. Accessed August 31, 2007.
  14. ↑ "Rear-End Collision Brings Deaths to 17". The Boston Daily Globe. November 27, 1905.
  15. ↑ Ohlson, Kristin (October 25, 2012). "The Cooperation Instinct". Discover Magazine. Martin Nowak watched pages of new calculations spill from the printer. He was working in his little corner of paradise, a room in his Lincoln, Massachusetts, home with big windows where he can watch deer nibble at the trees and birds flit around a feeder.
  16. ↑ "Updated: Epstein was invited to suspended prof's Concord home, documents show". The Concord Bridge. February 26, 2026. Nowak also owns a home in Lincoln.

Further reading

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