# Military equipment in parks

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 30, 2024, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/military-equipment-in-parks/1008299 "2024-09-30T19:10:12Z")\
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So @SunUp didn’t live far away from me. I lived in Maplewood and Luxmanor down. How about you?

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Potomac Woods (at least during the 70’s).

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Pretty close to where I lived in Luxmanor, but we moved to Philadelphia in 69.

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**Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/military-equipment-in-parks/1008299/84 "2024-10-23T17:08:16Z")

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> [@mozchron](#):
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> I found out later its not a park (although the grounds are park-like and open to the public). It’s a military museum. So mystery solved.
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> Now we have the new mystery of why our small college town has a huge-ass military museum. It doesn’t seem to fit the demographics.

It sounds like a private military museum/park, like the one near me (Cantigny) which I mentioned upthread.

My guess would be that it was established and funded by a local resident who is (or was) a military buff, and who may or may not have had any connection to the college.

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