Photograph of Benjamin Palmer, Louisiana Historical Association Collection, Tulane University.

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This file appears in: Palmer Park: The Name
Photograph of Benjamin Palmer, Louisiana Historical Association Collection, Tulane University.
This file appears in: Palmer Park: The Name

By Kevin McQueeney & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor
Hamilton Square was renamed Palmer Park as a “testimony to the honor of the late B. M. Palmer” through a city ordinance on July 1902. Benjamin Morgan Palmer was pastor of New Orleans First Presbyterian Church. Palmer’s 1860 Thanksgiving sermon is…