Clara Wilson, Regent of the Lexington Chapter 2019-2022, initiated the idea of a monthly Saturday morning clean-up at McConnell Springs. After years of faithful volunteers, led by Rebecca Mosolgo as chapter chair of the Conservation Committee, the board of McConnell Springs named the Lexington Chapter the Volunteer Organization of the Year. In addition to being a well-preserved natural place, McConnell Springs is historically significant in Lexington as the location where the city was given its name. William McConnell and his party of kinsmen, companion surveyors, explorers and would-be settlers established a small camp in the area in June 1775. The group named their camp "Lexington" in honor of one of the first battles of the American Revolutionary War in Lexington, Massachusetts