2010-12-06 Battle Green Draft Master Plan

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Ô»¨·²¹¬±² Þ¿¬¬´» Ù®»»² ß®»¿ Ü®¿º¬ Ó¿¬»® Ð´¿² ïîñêñîðïð evolved, other religious institutions were established here. Today five churches are visible from the Common and Belfry Hill. th Throughout much of the 19 century the battle site continued to function as a New England traditional town common an ill-organized public space of casual paths and pasture. In the early nineteenth century, it is described with a hollow oak stump in its Lexington Common, c. 1875 (Lexington Historical Society) In 1806 a new road to Bedford was laid out, separating a triangular piece of land off the Common to form a grassy island where the present Bedford Street and Hancock Street intersect. In January, 1840, the town voted to fence the Common with stone posts and wooden rails at a cost of $350. In 1847, when the First Parish Society built their new church and eighteenth and nineteenth century illustrate the Common as a tree-edged open pasture ringed by stone post and wooden rail fence. At the end of the century, the Common reverted from pasture to hayfield; the hay was auctioned off each year to a lucky town resident. The first photograph for the Common, an image dated 1865, shows the haying operation; the Common continued to be ringed by its granite post and wooden two-rail fence. Massive elms shaded the streets along the edge of the Common. Ð¿¬ Ü»·¹² ÔÔÝ Ð¿¹» ïï