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Many features of Olmsted and Vaux’s original 1867 proposal for Fort Greene Park are still visible today. The plan included a platform and large open area in the northwest corner of the park, intended for public gatherings. Meandering pathways connected several smaller green spaces and two larger recreational play grounds. Olmsted and Vaux drew a sketch for a Prison Ship Martyrs Monument

Many features of Olmsted and Vaux’s original 1867 proposal for Fort Greene Park are still visible today. The plan included a platform and large open area in the northwest corner of the park, intended for public gatherings. Meandering pathways connected several smaller green spaces and two larger recreational play grounds. Olmsted and Vaux drew a sketch for a Prison Ship Martyrs Monument to serve as a focal point near the center of the park, however it was never constructed. Paying homage to the Brooklyn soldiers who lost their lives during the Revolutionary War, a newly designed memorial was built by the firm of McKim, Mead, and White in 1908, and put in the central location Olmsted had originally proposed.

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