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Nearly every park with a decent mountain has a "castle" on it in the Northeastern US. I assumed this was normal until I started moving around the country and found the castle-building bug apparently never caught on. Why were so many recreational castles built in the Northeast?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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