Des Moines Historical Society - Waveland Trolley Loop Project Print

star-24px 2021 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Public places
An accessible, walkable park will be created from a vacant, long-neglected site that will include an interactive trolley sculpture and interpretive signage to memorialize the historic Des Moines trolley line.

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Groundbreaking for Waveland Trolley site.
Attendees at groundbreaking event.

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