Clay Center in Clay County, Kansas — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)

Better Homes & Gardens' Highest Community Honor

Photographed By William Fischer, Jr., February 16, 2015

1. Better Homes & Gardens' Highest Community Honor Marker

Inscription. More Beautiful America
Achievement Award

Presented to
City Beautiful Committee
Clay Center, Kansas

For outstanding accomplishment in
civic improvement and in recognition of
vision industry and civic pride

Erected 1934 by Better Homes & Gardens and the City Beautiful Committee.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Horticulture & Forestry.

Location. 39° 22.401′ N, 97° 7.73′ W. Marker is in Clay Center, Kansas, in Clay County. Marker is in Utility Park, accessed off Pomeroy Street west of 4th Street. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Clay Center KS 67432, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Other nearby markers. At least 7 other markers are within 11 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. M60 Tank (approx. ¼ mile away); Civil War Memorial (approx. ¼ mile away); Clay County Veterans Memorial (approx. ¼ mile away); Clay Center Municipal Band Shell (approx. 0.3 miles away); Swedesburg Swedish Evangelical First Lutheran Church Cemetery (approx. 8.2 miles away); Founders of St. John's Parish in 1874 (approx. 11 miles away); St. John's Episcopal Church (approx. 11.1 miles away).

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From information provided by Marci Penner in The Kansas Guidebook for explorers (2005), Utility Park was built during the Great Depression by city utility customers who could not pay their utility bills. Their work garnered national attention and recognition by Better Homes & Gardens. The zoo was added after World War II.

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Photographed By William Fischer, Jr., February 16, 2015

2. Better Homes & Gardens' Highest Community Honor Marker

Original Utility Park Entrance image. Click for full size.

Photographed By William Fischer, Jr., February 16, 2015

3. Original Utility Park Entrance

Credits. This page was last revised on September 1, 2020. It was originally submitted on February 24, 2015, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania. This page has been viewed 347 times since then and 16 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on February 24, 2015, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania.