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Our last stop was downtown near the public library and city hall at Market Square. The Public library is an amazing building of Victorian Gothic architecture and the terra-cotta façade was manufactured in England. Dedicated in 1902, it features a Sicilian marble statue of Queen Victoria in front of a grand building. Across the square Nelson Mandela is remembered with a bronze but he has a warm and dry spot inside the town hall.
I was amused by the Episcopal Church just down the street from the Library. The Main Street level entrance has been turned into a women's clothing store with an English Perpendicular church raising above.

One of the first and last things to see on our tour was the Campanile Memorial built to commemorate the landing of the first settlers in 1820. It is a copy of the Campanile of St Marks in Venice and has 204 steps to the observation deck. It contains the largest carillon of bells in the country. Unfortunately, it has been closed for renovation but it is a distinctive shape on the waterfront.