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FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



The playground, consisting of 14I acres, is centrally sit- 

 uated in the village on Broad Meadow Road, and was given 

 to the town by the late Amory Appleton Lawrence. He 

 was a graduate of Harvard in the Class of 1870, and was one 

 of a committee in charge to construct a memorial gateway 

 for his class. While acting in that capacity he saw the work- 

 men digging up the old fence, when it occurred to him that 

 for the sake of former associations it should be preserved. 

 So he bought a large section from the contractor and had 

 it shipped to Groton, where it was set up anew. 



On the front of the right-hand post at the entrance is a 

 bronze tablet with the following inscription : 



THE 



LAWRENCE 



PLAYGROUND 



and on the back of the same post is another tablet bearing 



these words : 



GIVEN BY 



AMORY A. LAWRENCE 



TO THE 



TOWN OF GROTON 



A. D. 1901 



IN MEMORY OF THE MANY 



LAWRENCES 



WHO HAVE LIVED 



THERE 



