South Royalton Green
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| South Royalton Green | |
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| South Royalton Park | |
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| Type | Public park |
| Location | South Royalton, Vermont, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 43°49′11″N 72°31′16″W / 43.81984°N 72.52110°W |
| Opened | c. 1856 |
The South Royalton Green is a historic public park in the center of South Royalton, Vermont.
The park has numerous features, including one contributing to the South Royalton Historic District: the South Royalton Park Bandstand. The octagonal wood-framed gazebo was built in the Queen Anne style in 1892.[1][2]
The park also features a fountain at the center of the park (originally a two-tier cast iron fountain), a cannon, a granite Civil War statue, and a granite memorial to Royalton residents who served in the World Wars, Korean War, and Vietnam War. The largest memorial is a stilted granite arch, the Handy Memorial (1915), commemorating Hannah Hunter Handy who rescued nine children following the Royalton raid. Other features of the park include paths bisecting the lawns regularly, intersecting at the fountain, trees at the park's borders and interspersed, and wrought-iron benches.[2]
Near the park, in the center of Chelsea St., lies a round granite water trough surrounded by a granite curb. The trough was installed for horses, though today it serves as a planter for flowers and a buffer to slow automobile traffic around the commercial area. It was installed in 1912 during the Old Home Days movement, replacing a wooden trough previously located there. It was paid for by the South Royalton Women's Club, and has an inscription reading "Erected 1912 by So. Royalton Women's Club / Public Benefit Society". Town residents rejected several proposals to move the trough, including to the edge of the park. No serious accidents have taken place there, though the granite is cracked from a fire built inside on a Halloween past. The trough is not listed on state or national historic registers, though it would contribute to an updated national historic district listing.[1]
