Yund Park • Benton Ave. at Park Ave.

 

Jacques (Jacob A.) Yund
1857 - 1910

COURTESY OF GARY BIGELOW • FIND-A-GRAVE

In 1905, French-born Helena jewelry and loan merchant Jacques (Jacob A.) Yund donated to the City of Helena a triangle of land at the intersection of N. Benton and N. Park Avenues, for the purpose of a park. Note the tall (109 ft.) flagpole, which was erected in 1917.

Yund Park Aerial Photo, 1932
Highlighted in Green

COURTESY OF JEFF MORRISON

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World War I Fervor

 

Flagpole Downed by Motorist and Wind, 1947

In 1951, a 50' steel flagpole was erected on the traffic island at the intersection of N. Park and Neill Ave. Was it the steel top of the 1917 pole? The island pole was moved across Neill Ave. to its current location in front of the Civic Center sometime before 1964.