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Colonial Circle - OU0442
Part of the Olmsted Park and Parkway System.
Besitzer: GOF
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Höhe: m ü. NHN
 Region: Vereinigte Staaten > New York
Cacheart: Sonstiger Cachetyp
Größe: Kein Behälter
Status: Archiviert
Versteckt am: 2012-04-09
Erstellt am: 2012-04-09
Veröffentlicht am: 2012-04-09
Zuletzt geändert am: 2015-06-13
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175 Aufrufe
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Beschreibung EN
From http://www.buffaloah.com

 

Soldiers Place, also called Soldiers Circle, forms the central connecting point of Buffalo's parkway system, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Soldiers Place is the point at which Lincoln, Chapin, and Bidwell Parkways converge. The parkways in Olmsted's day were smoothly paved and intended solely for use of private carriages. Featuring 200-foot rights of way and flanked by several rows of trees, they were designed to provide open space for the neighborhoods through which they passed.

 

Soldiers place was originally a very large circle that was meant to hold the likes of the Soldiers & Sailors monument now gracing Lafayette Square. When the monument was erected downtown, Soldiers Place received four large naval parrot rifles mounted on Grand Army of the Republic carriages and accompanied by stacks of cannon balls. Colonial Circle also had similar guns and projectiles. From the very start, junkmen found the cannon balls irresistible.

 

The cannons and ammunition stacks were removed from Soldiers Place in 1937 by Parks Commissioner Frank A Coon who condemned them as traffic hazards. Motorists would cut across the street-level circle, sometimes crashing into the massive gun tubes. Coon argued that the cannons had no historic significance -- the navy had supposedly condemned the guns without ever putting them into service. Coon had removed the artillery pieces from Colonial Circle the year before for the same reasons. Everything was sold for scrap.

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