Bowling Green Fence
Landmarks of New York
Erected by the Common Council in 1771, this fence surrounds New York’s earliest park. The park was leased in 1733 for use as a bowling green at a rental of one peppercorn a year. Patriots, who in 1776 destroyed an equestrian statue of George III which stood here, are said to have removed the crowns which capped the fence posts but the fence itself remains.
Marker is at the intersection of Bowling Green Drive and Broadway, on the left when traveling east on Bowling Green Drive.
Courtesy hmdb.org
