Hero Park

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Hero Park Memorial Plaque

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  • Location: Mounted on north side of Sugar Loaf Rock
  • Description: Plaque
  • Materials: Bronze
  • Cast: ca. 1920
  • Dedicated: 1920
  • Inscription: THIS / HERO PARK / AND MEMORIAL / IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED / TO THE MEMORY / OF THE SPLENDID SONS / OF STATEN ISLAND / WHO SO NOBLY / GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE WORLD WAR / 1917 -- 1918

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