The community could easily have been called Custardsville, since the Custard family settled in the area shortly after Barton, opening a sawmill on the Pocono Creek, and eventually establishing a Lutheran church (a daughter church of the Hamilton Union Church in Hamilton Square, Pennsylvania).
Features of the square include the town's cenotaph in front of the town hall, a large Queen Victoria Monument at the centre of the gardens and a statue of John Laird, the first Member of Parliament for Birkenhead and the son of William Laird.
Dahntay Jones (born 1980), professional basketball player, currently playing for the Indiana Pacers.
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Hamilton Square was established in 1692 and was named after Alexander Hamilton in a wave of anti-British feeling at the time of the War of 1812.
Hamilton Square was named after Alexander Hamilton in a wave of anti-British sentiment at the time of the War of 1812.
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The funds were stored by John Abbott II for state treasurer Samuel Tucker inside a tub containing broken crockery.
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The station was built in order to provide a station on the lines from New Brighton and West Kirby that was more convenient for the town centre of Birkenhead than either Birkenhead Park or Hamilton Square (which are otherwise the nearest stations).