Explore Mahaska County | 2021

ADVENTURES
Trolley #4 Mural
113 High Ave W • Oskaloosa, IA
A trolley once again sits in downtown Oskaloosa, but it will no longer take
you anywhere! Step into the alley between Hunter’s Gift & Coffee Cafe
and Taso’s Steakhouse to see the Oskaloosa Traction & Light Co. mural
painted by local artist Brant Bollman. “I am fascinated by a time gone by
when people would hop on the trolley to ride from Beacon to downtown
or from downtown to William Penn,” says Bollman. “The trolleys would
taxi on High Avenue and wait for their scheduled route times.”
“I like the idea of plucking a moment
out of time and setting it in that alley.”
- Brant Bollman, Artist
More places where art and history play together . . .
Oskaloosa Herald Murals
123 N Market St • Oskaloosa, IA
On the back (west) side of the former Herald
building, local artist Matt Kargol installed three
bright yellow murals. “I wanted to make the
murals glow in a similar way to how it used to
glow late at night as I would return from an
away football game and the writers, editors,
and press operators would be working to get
the sports written and printed for the Saturday
morning paper,” says Kargol. “It was always
magical to drive by the printing press and the
beautiful glow that would emanate through the
window into the streets.”
John F. Lacey Mural
102 1st Ave E • Oskaloosa, IA
On the side of the building at the corner of 1st
Ave E and S Market, local artist Brant Bollman
painted a bold blue mural celebrating a figure
of local history: John F. Lacey. “General Lacey is
perhaps the most consequential person to ever
live in Mahaska County,” says Bollman. “He
went on to become a Civil War Hero, an 8-Term
Congressman, and the legislative father of the
National Park System.”
The Alley
109-115 S Market St • Oskaloosa, IA
Take a stroll or dine outdoors in The Alley
between Smokey Row and Lu Roo & Co
Boutique/Bridal Dreams. The Alley is lined with
tables and chairs, murals by FACE of Mahaska
County, and stories of local history.
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