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Grown Man Mourns as Trenton's Playing Fields Vanish

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Pre-Knicks NYC
Location New Jersey
Immediacy of Report Retrospective
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A Trenton NJ commentator pauses to rue the destruction of a favorite old tavern, adding that in the last twenty years "[w]e have seen whole streets spring up as if by magic, The fields where we played ball are now filled with machinery."

 

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"Local Items," Trenton State Gazette, August 16, 1853. Accessed via subscription search May 20, 2009.

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