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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Underwood and Underwood 



HERE THEY FOUGHT FOR LIBERTY AND DIED 



Whit can be done in the proper placing of memorials in connection with the building of "Roads of Remembrance" as suggested by the American 

 forestry Association, is well shown. This is the Old North Bridge at Concord, where the patriots of the Revolution fought. 



provements completed it is quite probable that the en- 

 circling section, skirting the hills to the east of the city 

 and tying the whole system into a great circular highway, 

 will ultimately be carried out, and Hamilton given a 

 parkway system comparable to the best in America. Steps 

 are already under under consideration by civic organi- 

 zations to provide for the systematic planting of trees 

 along the proposed boulevards, and this essential feature 

 will not be omitted." 



In Brooklyn there is a plan for a Memorial Boulevard 

 that links with much of the history that is Brooklyn 

 made. The old King's Highway, over which other 

 soldiers marched at their country's call is to become a 



memorial to the men who answered a later call. It was 

 over this road the patriots marched to turn the tide in 

 the Battle of Long Island. It was on King's Highway 

 that the sons of Brooklyn marched to assemble for the 

 call of duty in every struggle in which America was a 

 contender from the War of the Revolution to the late 

 World War. Many of those who answered the last call 

 were direct descendants of those who took part in the 

 first strategic war move enacted by the Colonial troops 

 on the grounds traversed by King's Highway. They 

 treated the British troops, under the command of Lord 

 Cornwallis, to a military surprise by evacuating an en- 

 campment in the New Lots area in the dead of the night 



