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Erected by the Common Council in 1771, this fence surrounds New York’s earliest park. The park was leased in 1733 for use as a bowling green at a rental of one peppercorn a year. In 1776, Patriots destroyed an equestrian statue of George III that stood here and are said to have removed the crowns that capped the fence posts, but the fence itself remains.
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