The colonial-era heart of Easton — a circular green at the meeting of Northampton and Third Streets, with the Peace Candle at its centre. The candle is a 106-foot temporary "candle" that goes up over the existing Civil War monument every December, lit through the holiday season as a community gesture. The rest of the year, the obelisk underneath honours Civil War dead.
The square has been the civic centre since the town was laid out in 1752, and most of the surrounding buildings — banks, the State Theatre, the old hotel — date from the prosperous late nineteenth century. Friday and Saturday nights it fills with the overflow from the surrounding restaurants and bars; the Easton Farmers' Market (continuously running since 1752, the oldest in the country) operates here on Saturdays.