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Ô»¨·²¹¬±² Þ¿¬¬´» Ù®»»² ß®»¿ Ü®¿º¬ Ó¿­¬»® д¿² <br />ïîñêñîðïð <br /> <br />Lexington Town Common, c. 1865 (Lexington Historical Society <br /> <br /> <br />Sarah Gould, whose family moved to Lexington in 1847, remembered the two-rail fence <br />two-rail fence around the Common, and remembered <br />the cellar hole of the meeting house wh <br /> (The c. 1875 image on page 9 illustrates these features). <br /> <br />took on new meaning after 1875 when the significance of <br />th <br />the April 19 battle was cel <br />spectators that came to see President Grant and other dignitaries recognized the <br />hundredth anniversary of the Battle catapulted the Common into a new era of sacred park <br />space. Monuments and memorials sprang up throughout the Common, beginning with <br />the Parker Boulder, dedicated in 1884. The fence was removed, the grass manicured, and <br />the massive American elms continued to ring the greensward, now shading the village <br />green instead of the Common pasture. <br /> <br />War I. The first documented date for this term is April 9, 1925 when an article in the <br />th <br />Christian Science Monitor described the events surrounding the 150 anniversary of the <br />Battle. The intent of the Battle Green as a commemorative space rather than a pasture, <br />however, was transformed fifty years earlier by the 1875 Centennial celebration and the <br />installation of the commemorative monuments that followed. <br /> <br />п­¬ Ü»­·¹²­ ÔÔÝ Ð¿¹» ïî <br /> <br /> <br />