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[Jock]

Most of the park's area is on landfill created by the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley Railroad, defunct companies whose lines once terminated there.

There really is a Reading Railroad!  Not just on monopoly!

[Jock]

Empty Sky is the official state memorial to the September 11 attacks of the World Trade Center. Situated on a berm the parallel walls engraved with the names of victims are oriented to face the former World Trade Center site.

[Jock]

Across the river is some hallowed ground with the Freedom Tower replacement

[Jock]

Time to depart Liberty State Park on the Ferry over to Ellis Island and Lady Liberty.

[Jock]

Ellis Island is a federally-owned island in New York Harbor that was once the busiest immigrant inspection station in the United States. From 1892 to 1924, nearly 12 million immigrants arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey were processed there under federal law.

[Jock]

The Statue of Liberty stands in Upper New York Bay, a universal symbol of freedom.  I was thankful to still see her there which gives me hope for the future!

[Jock]

Lady Liberty in all her glory!

[GregKhougaz]

Great shots as always, Jock! 👍👍 Thank you for sharing.

[Jock]

Day Three Shrewsbury, MA – Laconia, NH ~ 300 miles

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

[Jock]

A sweet and sorrowful piece of history awaits when visiting the newly named Prospect Park in Shrewsbury. The Park encompasses the Garden of Sweet Remembrance—a pergola, low-lying walls, and a now empty reflecting pool. These are the ruins of the beautiful grounds where the Whittall mansion once stood.

[Jock]

Matthew J. Whittall was a prominent businessman and Mason. In 1912 he commissioned his mansion, Juniper Hall, to be built on the tallest hill overlooking the town of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. The public was welcome to tour the formal gardens and admire the flowers that bloomed there. After Whittall passed in 1922, his widow Gertrude dedicated the pergola in his memory. Their mansion later became a home for retired Masons, before eventually falling into disrepair. The house was torn down in 1979, and the land now belongs to the Town of Shrewsbury.

[Jock]

Though the elegant mansion that once stood here is long gone, the Garden of Sweet Remembrance is a beautiful and peaceful spot to visit, and it holds the magic of a time gone by and a love remembered.

[Jock]

Recently the death of a local young teenager presented an opportunity for her friends to conduct a remembrance of her in this garden.  All throughout the garden where “rocks” with thoughts and feelings of her and life.

[Jock]

Worcester State Hospital was once a mental health facility. While most of it has been torn down and replaced, what remains is a spooky round building I call the “Nut House”!  Can’t imagine why someone would have issues there.

[Jock]

And the clock tower so the residents could watch the time of day past them by…