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[Park at E. 12th Street Kings Highway.]

Park at E. 12th Street Kings Highway (n.e.cor.)--Sgt. Joyce Kilmer Square. Quentin Road to north of this.

1961

Sgt. Joyce Kilmer Square

[Park at E. 12th Street Kings Highway.]

Park at E. 12th Street Kings Highway (n.e.cor.)--Sgt. Joyce Kilmer Square. Quentin Road to north of this.

IMAGE DATE1961
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Sgt. Joyce Kilmer Square, at the intersection of Kings Highway, Quentin Road, and East 12th street; June 18, 1961.

Kilmer was a poet and print journalist whose work appeared in the New York Times, prior the outbreak our World War I. In the Army, Kilmer rose to the rank of sergeant. He was killed on July 30, 1918 in the second battle of the Marne.

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