Before Rutgers' Livingston Campus, there was Camp Kilmer

[Tango Two]

Driving along Cedar Lane where it meets Road 1 and the southern border of Rutgers’ Livingston campus, there is a series of one-story buildings that sit next to the pronounced curve in the road.

These buildings serve as warehouses and administrative offices for the university.

But their original purpose was far more important and is in danger of being forgotten.



http://www.mycentraljersey.com/stor...ivingston-campus-there-camp-kilmer/973185001/

 

[pele78]

http://www.fortwiki.com/Camp_Kilmer

https://www.google.com/search?q=cam...ry9azYAhVDmuAKHe1dBoIQsAQINw&biw=1366&bih=618

Wish Rutgers WW2 history was better appreciated and documented (see thread on SS Rutgers Victory)

Actually Camp Shanks (another embarkation camp in Orangeburg, NY) has a museum

http://www.hudsonrivervalley.com/sites/Camp-Shanks-World-War-II-Museum-/details

 

[SteveVA2]

My father spent a large part of his WWII service at Camp Kilmer, which great for him and our family. We were living in Highland Park and my mother and her mother and dad and the rest of her family were in New Brunswick. My grandfather had a glass shop downtown where Rt 18 is now. We lived in NB until 1950 on Welton St and then moved to Plainfield. I went to Lord Sterling school in NB thru 2nd grade.

 

[m1ipabrams]

I worked for the RU Facilities Dept as a student/recent grad during the early 90s and developed a digital map of all of the buildings and utilities(water, electric, steam, etc) for all of the NB campuses. The area between Busch and Livingston campus still has the foundations of all of the old buildings that razed to the ground. We would identify the location of old water mains from original drawings, add them to the digital model and then go out and verify their location/existence. There are all sorts of random fire hydrants in the woods there, sort of surreal.

 

[Armor and Sword]

I'd like to know more about Camp Kilmer. My father, who grew up in the NB 6th Ward used to tell me stores of going there as a kid and ended up seeing/talking to German POWs during WWII. I could never find anything written about Kilmer being a POW camp. I did learn recently that it was used as a refugee camp for Hungarians during the 1956 revolution, which probably accounts why NB and Central Jersey has such a big Hungarian population.

 

[RU-ROCS]

My father spent a large part of his WWII service at Camp Kilmer, which great for him and our family. We were living in Highland Park and my mother and her mother and dad and the rest of her family were in New Brunswick. My grandfather had a glass shop downtown where Rt 18 is now. We lived in NB until 1950 on Welton St and then moved to Plainfield. I went to Lord Sterling school in NB thru 2nd grade.

My dad started his Korean War service at Camp Kilmer. He’s almost 88 now and only recently has started talking about his time there and elsewhere while in the Army.

 

[Tango Two]

http://www.fortwiki.com/Camp_Kilmer

https://www.google.com/search?q=cam...ry9azYAhVDmuAKHe1dBoIQsAQINw&biw=1366&bih=618

Wish Rutgers WW2 history was better appreciated and documented (see thread on SS Rutgers Victory)

Actually Camp Shanks (another embarkation camp in Orangeburg, NY) has a museum

http://www.hudsonrivervalley.com/sites/Camp-Shanks-World-War-II-Museum-/details

My father spent a large part of his WWII service at Camp Kilmer, which great for him and our family. We were living in Highland Park and my mother and her mother and dad and the rest of her family were in New Brunswick. My grandfather had a glass shop downtown where Rt 18 is now. We lived in NB until 1950 on Welton St and then moved to Plainfield. I went to Lord Sterling school in NB thru 2nd grade.

I'd like to know more about Camp Kilmer. My father, who grew up in the NB 6th Ward used to tell me stores of going there as a kid and ended up seeing/talking to German POWs during WWII. I could never find anything written about Kilmer being a POW camp. I did learn recently that it was used as a refugee camp for Hungarians during the 1956 revolution, which probably accounts why NB and Central Jersey has such a big Hungarian population.

My dad started his Korean War service at Camp Kilmer. He’s almost 88 now and only recently has started talking about his time there and elsewhere while in the Army.

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