Boston Common: America’s First Public Park — VOA Learning English
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Almost 400 years ago, America’s early European colonists voted to tax each household in Boston about $70 in today’s money. The money was used to buy a local farm. The plan was to use it as a common area for the public.
That is how Boston Common, in the state of Massachusetts, became America’s first public park.
Liz Vizza is president of the Friends of the Public Garden, an organization that supports Boston Common. She noted that Bostonians did not have backyards – private outdoor spaces behind their homes. Boston Common, she said, became “their front yard and backyard and common ground. It was a place that everybody owned.”
On any given day, colonists walking though Boston Common would see…
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