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People relax in Central Park's Sheep Meadow, a 15-acre lawn where folks gather to picnic, people-watch and sleep under large Sycamore trees. After Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed Central Park, a flock of sheep was added to reinforce the quiet nature. In the 1870s a shepherd drove a flock of sheep across the drive to and from the meadow until they were banished to Brooklyn.
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- MELISSA FARLOW
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calvert, central park (manhattan island), frederick law, geography, grasslands, human actions and reactions, manhattan island, meadows, new england states, new york, new york city, north america, olmsted, parks, plants, sheep meadow (central park), sleeping (by humans), tourists and tourism, trees, united states, vaux
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- Frederick Law Olmstead_National Geographic magazine 3/2005
