This week in Lexington
About Lexington
Lexington started out as Plum Creek: a frontier trading post in 1860, then Fort Plum Creek in 1864, then a railroad town once the Union Pacific arrived in 1866. It became the Dawson County seat in 1873 and took the name Lexington in 1889, and its 1914 red-brick courthouse still anchors the square on Washington Street. Today it is a young, many-language town of about 10,000 where the chamber says welcome in English, Spanish and Somali, and where the city was named Nebraska Community of the Year in 2026.