Lying just below Watson’s Hill between Pleasant Street on the west and
Sandwich Street on the east, is an open square known as Training Green,
from the fact that in the earlier days companies of militia were trained
there in the manual of arms. In the center stands the Soldiers’
Monument, erected in 1869 to the memory of Plymouth men who served in
the army and navy and who gave their lives during the Civil War. This
tract of land was used before the arrival of the Pilgrims by the Indians
for growing corn. It has contributed its share of arrow heads and other
Indian relics, as have the other hills and fields in the immediate
neighborhood.