Kennywood: Pittsburgh’s Working-Class Wonderland Turned Landmark

A Trolley Park for the Working Class (1898) On a spring day in 1898, crowded trolleys clattered out of downtown Pittsburgh carrying steel mill workers and their families toward a green hilltop above the Monongahela River. Their destination was Kennywood Park, a brand-new “trolley park” created as a weekend escape from the city’s smoke and…