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Sunday, July 8, 2007

On a summer afternoon in the Common Pleas Courthouse Park, the splashing of water in the fountain memorializing Union soldiers from the Civil War competes with the whine of a lawn mower. The lush grass cushions footsteps under trees towering above the two-story historic structure.

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