Parks
Parks in Kearney Today
East side:
Nina Hammer
Collins
Harvey – baseball/softball
West side:
Baldwin – soccer
Harmon
Lincoln Way - soccer, softball
Pioneer
Centennial
Parks of the Past in Kearney:
West Kearney Park – 2 acres in center of section
Condemned in 1913 – all streets,
alleys, avenues and boulevards vacated
½ section purchased by Industrial
School to be used for agriculture
Riverside Park – At south end of 8th Ave (Steinbrink’s) between 11th
& 13th Streets.
Centennial is also between 11th &
13th Streets but east between 5th & 7th
Kearney Lake – ice skating and slide in winter
Boating, swimming, diving in summer
Dance pavilion
Union Pacific Park – between depot and 2nd, Railroad and street
Oregon Trail marker, dedicated in
1910
Parks in Other Buffalo County Towns
None described in Centennial books
Mabel Vohland’s Trail Dust to Star Dust does include parks
Davis Park – Land donated in 1887 by
Isaac Davis.
He and nephew James had established the Gibbon Mill
City Park - Across from the Post
Office.
Women’s Club sponsored project of landscaping and planting shrubs & flowers
Monument
a. Names of Gibbon Homestead Colony members
b. Honorary members – Individuals already here when Colony arrived
Recreation on the Wood River
– Tied to Flour Mills
Shelton – Old timers remember
Lake Shelton at the north edge of town
above the dam
Popular picnic spot
Ice skate in winter
Swim and boat in summer.
For several years in the early 1900's a small steamboat ran on the lake
Area boat races were held.
Glenwood – Glenwood Park, created at the widened river above the dam
Late 1880s
Family picnics, swimming, boating, fishing
Baseball field on the flat area above the river bed
Owned and operated by Charles Nelson
Closed around 1910 after Nelson’s death
White Bridge Park –
1 mile north of Glenwood (92nd Road)
2 miles east (Antelope Road)
Southeast corner of intersection
J. J. Klein owned 80 acres, Wood wanders through west to east
Probably opened in 1903
Advertised during June & July 1903 as 35 minutes from Kearney.
Items about people picnicking there
started in August
Advertised as 4 miles north of KMA in August ads
Fourth of July celebration at the park in 1904
Bridge painted white and won an award in Feb 1905,
Washed out in spring flood in June,
replaced with metal suspension bridge.
[Why was it called White Bridge Park before that?]
Jacob J Klein died in May 1938 at age 72 and is buried in the Kearney
cemetery
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