Every great city has a signature place that serves as a destination, an icon for the city. Our downtown corner park will be a place for community members to gather and celebrate. It will be a space for special events, library programs, recreational activities all while providing a quiet place to relax or meet up with friends.
Park plans include a short brick and ornamental metal fence along the perimeter with stamped and sealed concrete sidewalks throughout. A personalized Frontenac town clock would be located at the opening of the park on McKay street where visitors will be greeted by our coal mining tribute with a bronze miner bust. Bench and bistro style seating will be available for visitors to relax and enjoy the space. The park will also hold a small covered shelter for educational programs or for local musicians to perform at special events. All of this comes together to create a downtown space the entire community can enjoy!
Our vision is to create a welcoming green space right in the heart of our downtown.
This space will be designed for citizens to use in a variety of ways. Some of the uses will be for outdoor library programing, a quiet place to read a book or catch up with friends. An outdoor place to enjoy a cup of coffee or sit as a family and enjoy ice cream on a warm Summer day.
It will provide an outdoor space to enjoy lunch or dinner from our downtown establishments, and let’s not forget our students who use our downtown during their open campus lunch.
From celebrations at Frontenac’s Mining Days to taking in music at a special event, our downtown corner park will be a hub for community activity while enhancing the looks of our downtown!
Our vision for the corner park honors Frontenac’s rich coal mining past with a bronze bust of a coal miner, as well as brick pillars which will tell the story of the Frontenac Coal Mine Explosion at mine No. 2, the worst mining disaster in Kansas history.
This monument will pay tribute to the forty-four men and boys who lost their lives on that cold, wet, dreary day of November 9, 1888. The miners of Frontenac, by their death, tragically brought about safer practices in their trade. Their names long forgotten; their deaths forever changed Kansas mining laws.
