Sunday, November 11, 2007

Camp Kilmer NJ


Constructed in a matter of months at the start of WWII, Camp Kilmer was a huge processing & embarkation center sprawling across Piscataway & Edison & into South Plainfield. By the late Sixties it was a ghostly city of boarded up buildings & roads & railroad spurs to nowhere, popular with local teenagers & Rutgers students. It was many more years before government got serious about security at abandoned installations like Camp Kilmer, Sandy Hook, & the old Nike Missile bases. Rutgers has used much of the Kilmer property for campus expansion.

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