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[joebanks]

Chardon Courthouse Sq. September, 1990.

This image looks at where the previous pic was taken.

North East Ohio was settled by New Englander's, who brought their town sqaures with them. Even downtown Cleveland, surrounded by sky scrapers has it's town square, laid out in 1796.

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[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

It's weird, they planned out all town and cities when they settlers (also known as invaders) came here.

I read in uni readings that they deliberately didn't have town squares or any places large numbers of people could meet in some towns in England and maybe other places, because of fear of uprisings.

[joebanks.livejournal.com]

That may have been just the point of the town square in New England. The whole idea of the town meeting, where issues were decided by the community, or back then, white, male, landowners; still an effort to have a democratic government.