Webb City, Missouri, approved an agreement this week with Cardinal Scale Manufacturing to build a Cardinal Route 66 Park on the city’s east side.
According to the Joplin Globe:
It will have a pavilion, tables, landscaping, flag poles and signs. Cardinal Scale also will provide assistance with maintaining the park.
The city has agreed to build a sidewalk and a concrete pad for the pavilion. As city funds become available, additional sidewalks and a paved parking lot will be added to the park.
According to earlier reporting, the Joplin Museum Complex is involved in the park’s creation:
It would entail providing an ore bucket, a mining drill, a mine hoist and some other machines for display in a new park to be developed by the Webb City Parks Department and Cardinal Scale Manufacturing Co.
According to drawings of the proposed park, the site would be dedicated to the founders of the scale company, the late Marion Perry and William H. Perry Jr. Signs would be erected to recognize Joplin’s contribution of the mining machinery, according to the proposal. The park would be located on the original path of Route 66, and another marker would be erected in recognition of the historic highway.
Cardinal Scale, right off Route 66 in Webb City, was founded in 1950 as a maker of all sorts of industrial scales.
The Cardinal Route 66 Park is slated to open sometime this year.
(Blueprint of Cardinal Route 66 Park in Webb City via Cardinal Scale)