After the liberation from the Turks, in order to "put things in their place" in the plan of construction of the town, Prince Nikola invited Josip Slade to make the first regulation plan of Niksic. In March 1883 Slade was already in Niksic to inspect the current situation, and in May of the same year he made the plan, which was accepted by Prince Nikola who brought it to Niksic the following month and introduced the future builders with it. Thus the basis for the construction of the new town was created. The plan envisaged spacious, rectangular square in the core of the town and four smaller in other regions, linked by wide, straight and radially oriented streets. It envisaged the construction of boundary objects, mostly terrestrial and one-story buildings, surface water drainage, tree rows and green areas, as well. From March 1885 until the beginning of the World War I the square served as a shopping center, market place and the main market for the northern part of Montenegro. At the end of the nineteenth century, a large number of retail stores and craft shops were opened on the square, and in 1886 the market got two small houses, one for the sale of matches, gun powder and cones, hunting ammunition and weapons, salt, tobacco, toys and the second one for paying taxes (dacija). A gas station belonging to Ilija Kadovic was next to them until the World War II. Two round stands with canopies for selling milk, dairy products and eggs were later built. Next to each small house there was a well. In April 1944 the square and the entire town of Niksic, were bombed by the Allies. 168 were killed and more than 200 people wounded. In the night between 17 and 18 September 1944, German troops withdrew from the city to Danilovgrad, and on 18 September units of the Montenegrin Sixth Brigade entered the town. Niksic was liberated after three years and five months of the occupation, and the town's population organized a warm welcome on the square for the liberators. The square changed its name several times. Before the World War II it was called Karadjordje Square, and after the war Marshal Tito Square. From 1992 its name is Freedom Square.