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McKinley Park
7 Ave., Ft. Hamilton Pkwy. bet. Bayridge Pkwy. and 73 St.
Brooklyn
Directions: Google Maps | MTA Trip Planner
Acres: 5.66
This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.
This park is named for William McKinley (1843-1901), twenty-fifth President of the United States. McKinley was born on January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio and attended Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he rose from private to brevet major. After the war McKinley attended law school in Albany, New York and practiced law in Ohio. He married Ida Stanton in 1871.
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