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Tompkinsville Park
Bay St., Victory Blvd.
Staten Island
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Acres: 0.42
The Hiker 
Read a history from Parks’ Historical Signs Project. This text can be found posted within the park.
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- Sculptor: Allen G. Newman
- Description: Standing figure (life size), on pedestal with four plaques
- Materials: Bronze, North Jay granite
- Cast: 1916
- Dedicated: 1916
- Foundry: Jno. Williams, Inc.
- Donor: Public subscription
- Inscription: 1) Pedestal north face: HIKER MONUMENT / ERECTED / IN COMMEMORATION OF / THE HEROES OF ALL WARS / IN WHICH / OUR BELOVED COUNTRY / WAS ENGAGED / FOR THE / PRICIPLES OF DEMOCRACY / AND / A LASTING CIVILIZATION [---] JOSEPH S. DECKER COM. / NO. 20 DEPT. N.Y. UNITED / SPANISH WAR VETERANS / 2) Pedestal south face: DEDICATED / TO / THE DAUGHTERS / OF THE / AMERICAN / REVOLUTION / 1776-1812 / 1848-1861-65 / 1898-1917-18 / 3) Pedestal east face: DEDICATED / TO / OUR YOUNGER COMRADES / OF THE / AMERICAN LEGION / 1917-1918 / WHO SUCESSFULLY / WAGED WAR ON FOREIGN SOIL / FOR / FREEDOM / PATRIOTISM / AND HUMANITY / 4) Pedestal west face: DEDICATED / TO / OUR OLDER COMRADES / OF / ROBERT G. SHAW POST NO. 112 / GRAND ARMY OF / THE REPUBLIC / WHO BATTLED IN THE WAR/ THAT TRIED MEN'S SOULS / AND GAVE / TO FUTURE GENERATIONS / THE HERITAGE OF / A REUNITED COUNTRY / 1861-1865 /
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