Brown Square

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Location	Rochester, NY, United States
Modern Address	251 Verona. Rochester
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Description	Brown Square is at/near today's Brown Square Park, 251 Verona. An 1860 map of Rochester shows Brown Square between Jay (on the north) and Brown (on the south), with Jones St. on the east. It is one block from modern Frontier Field. See https://rochesterbaseballhistory.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/bielewicz-hallowed-grounds-04-01-17.pdf
Sources	Astifan, "Baseball in the 19th Century"
Comment	Astifan, "Baseball in the 19th Century" says Brown Square was the site of Rochester's first match game. Other early games were played at Jones Square, Franklin Square, and the Babbitt Tract. The 1860 Rochester map shows Jones Square bounded by Jones Avenue on the south, bounded by Schuyler on the east, about where the modern Jones Square is. Franklin Square in 1860 was on the east side of the river, bounded by Andrews on the south, Bowery on the north, and bisected by Chatham (north/south running street). "Mumford's meadow" was the site of a (predecessor?) baseball game c. 1825. See chronologies. The site of this meadow is shown in the linked-to pdf. Edit with form to add a comment
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Found by	Bruce Allardice
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Entered by	Bruce Allardice

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Page	Date	City	Borough	State	Team 1	Team 2	Score	First in	Contributor
Ballgame	1858-09-03	Rochester		NY	Flour City Club of Rochester	Niagara Club of Buffalo	16 - 25		Bruce Allardice