Saline County Memories: The story behind Benton’s Owens-Mooney Park

A feature on Owens-Mooney Park traces the history of the small downtown Benton green space and the people it commemorates. The site once held a mercantile building and later a grocery and furniture store, before a 1991 fire destroyed the structure. In 1993, the Benton Rotary Club established the park in memory of local men Bart Owens and Randy Mooney, who had died tragically.