County: Saline

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Photographer: John Charlton/KGS

Place Name: Coronado Heights

Short description: Coronado Heights picnic area, looking west from the "Castle," in Saline County. The "Castle," a Dakota Sandstone building completed in 1936, sits atop a butte at Coronado Heights public park. The park's features were built during the 1930s as part of a Works Progress Administration project. Coronado Heights was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

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