Winterset City Park

The final 6 acres (2.4 ha) of what was to be Winterset City Park years later was bought on September 17, 1825, from Henry Smith for $200.

The citizens disagreed and some of the women in Winterset gained permission from the city government to raise money to preserve the land as a place for leisure.

The tower was built from 1926 to 1927 to stand as a memorial for Caleb and Ruth Clanton Clark, one of the original pioneer families that settled in Madison County.

A short distance from Clark Tower is a stone house's ruins, where it is claimed that Frank and Jesse James slept one night.

To the north of the cabin, there is a six-ton granite boulder that commemorates the discovery of the Red Delicious apple in Madison County in 1872.