Who owns Nelson Circle? For hundreds of years, the official answer was ‘no one’

Nelson Circle sits in the center of Nelson Township. Wendy DiAlesandro/The Portager

Who owns Nelson Circle? For hundreds of years, the official answer was ‘no one’

- Wendy DiAlesandro

Nelson Circle, which is actually shaped like a square, is a small plot of land in the heart of Nelson Township that for many years seemed to belong to… nobody.

For possibly hundreds of years, the township has been maintaining the Circle and even, over 130 years ago, authorized the placement of a veteran’s monument on it. But a few years ago, trustees discovered they didn’t hold the deed and they couldn’t figure out who did.

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