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Often overlooked, Liberty Square is a wonderful downtown oasis which reminds visitors of times and places unseen. The square's focus is a statue dedicated to the 1956 anti-communist revolution in Hungary. But that revolution is not why this is called Liberty Square.
Why is this called Liberty Square? Liberty Square existed with this name far before the revolution of 1956.
The popular theory is that near the end of the eighteenth century a sixty foot liberty pole was erected to commemorate the Stamp Act riots of 1765. This had been a loyalist neighborhood, and would have been a natural location for the King's stamp master.
However, the other explanation provided by Donlyn Lyndon's City Observed is that it was the site of a gigantic feast and celebration held in the area to commemorate the French Revolution.
Either way, Earl R. Flansburgh & Associates designed the current land use in the middle of Liberty Square, as well as the Angell Memorial statue area in nearby Post Office Square. Beautiful Victorian commercial buildings, such as 10 Liberty Square, make this a wonderful place to remember times and places unseen.