THROUGH THE YEARS
Riverside Park featured the first playground in Cedar Rapids. Children played more than 12 feet above the ground.
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Cedar Rapids joined the movement of building playground structures in the early 1900s. Just fifty years prior, playgrounds did not exist. Children played in rural fields, on empty lots and in streets. At the beginning of the 20th century, a concern about unsupervised activity and worry that playing on the street would lead to truant behavior forwarded the concept of structured play spaces.
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AUGUST 2016