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Milton Peter Demetre Park is a municipal park in Charleston South Carolina formerly known as Sunrise Park.Milton Demetre owned a spit of land which provided views across Charleston Harbor of the Battery. During the 1960s Demetre obtained permits and filled his waterfront lot with dirt a practice which was later outlawed. In 1970 the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers ordered Demetre to stop filling the waterfront property and litigation resulted.