Rock Solid History News Digest 07.02.21

This week, learn about a young chess grandmaster ♞♕, new park 🌳, Chinatown monument 💓,  bridge for buffalo 🐃, and a carved snake 🐍!

12-year-old Abhimanyu Mishra becomes youngest grandmaster in chess history
By Ben Morse for CNN 

Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners names new County park in honor of Thomas Mundy Peterson
By New Jersey Stage (photo  above courtesy of New Jersey Stage)

Landmarks designates Kimlau War Memorial an archeological site
By Veronica Rose for Cityland NYC 

Where the buffalo roam: world’s longest wildlife bridge could cross the Mississippi
By Kari Paul for The Guardian 

Sinuous Stone-Age snake sculpture unearthed in Finland
By Kristin Romey for National Geographic (photo below by Satu Koivisto)