Place 23: City Center & Paul Bunyan
1958; 1985The statue faces Outer Canal Street from the City Center lawn, near Bassey Park. The text gives almost 1.6 km from Freese's to City Center. The straight separation here is about 1.6 km; the precise walking route remains unresolved.
About City Center & Paul Bunyan
City Center and the Paul Bunyan statue form a civic landmark in the northeastern part of central Derry. The statue stands on the City Center lawn facing Outer Canal Street, with Bassey Park nearby. This combination of monument, lawn, street, and park gives the area a public character distinct from the Main Street shopping blocks. In the atlas the site appears in both 1958 and 1985 and helps connect downtown routes with the canal-side park district.
Why this pin is marked A
Named in the novel. The street or the site is named in the text; the exact lot is the atlas’s.
The site is marked A because the City Center lawn, the statue’s orientation toward Outer Canal Street, and its association with Bassey Park are stated. A route also places City Center almost a mile from Freese’s, and the mapped straight-line separation is close to that figure. These clues strongly anchor the civic area, but the exact walking path, lawn boundary, statue coordinate, and arrangement of municipal buildings are not supplied. The atlas reconstructs those details without claiming a surveyed civic plan.
