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present day
What is left of the town's green is small, and it is told at its size. At 117 Olive Street, in the town's core, the Osceola Neighborhood Unity Garden stands in the directory record as a community garden — a neighborhood institution of the kind the Culture and Neighborhoods legs meet elsewhere, carried here as the town's one cultivated public plot, at directory strength. The Moran Elementary ground, told in the Schools section, doubles as its neighborhood's playfield. And under everything lies the original commons: the riverbank and the creek bank, the fishing and the bank-side paths that precede every formal acre in this section and persist alongside them — the county park's own trail system is, in part, those banks made official. No village green, bandstand park, or town square appears in the record reached; the town was platted on section lines and railroad time, and its public life has always run down the Lincolnway and out to the water rather than gathering on a green.
Sources
- Schools section (the Moran Elementary ground).