Dartmouth Commons

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The Dartmouth Commons was an approximately 300 acres area of land set aside by the government in the late 1700s for the settlers common use in Dartmouth Nova Scotia. Maintained by the Halifax Regional Municipality only a small portion of it remains today. Today the area is called the Leighton Dillman Scenic Garden, which named after a diligent voluntary keeper of the garden. Other areas of the common are developed into a baseball field, a building that housed the former town - and later, city - of Dartmouth City Hall, then the Dartmouth Regional Library then after that the Dartmouth Heritage Museum, the Dartmouth Sportsplex, Dartmouth High School, Bicentennial Jr. High School, an elementary school called "Park School" (since torn down) and two burial grounds. Between the Dartmouth Sportsplex and Dartmouth High School there is an Urban Forest. Under the "Halifax Regional Municipality Act" the municipality cannot develop the Dartmouth Commons, nor charge a fee to use the ball fields .