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number of homes built after 1980 is less than 100, excluding the low-income housing area on Boyd Street. As the neighborhood grew, there were various needs that came up through the years including the need for a new school, the need for churches, the need for parks, and other normal amenities of a growing neighborhood.
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Keystone has a task force and neighborhood patrol. The
Keystone Task Force organizes community events including fundraisers, scholarships, and various other activities. The Keystone Neighborhood Patrol is a group of neighbors who volunteer some of their time to patrol the neighborhood to help prevent
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Keystone. The neighborhood is a mix of modern and traditional development as older areas developed with a grid like layout. Keystone is well known for not being a grid as no single street takes you from one border
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Keystone Dr has two tennis courts along with some playground equipment. Democracy Park just north of 87th St and Templeton Dr
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Keystone Pool was built by the early 1950s as requested by the residents. Mr. Hargleroad who owned much of the northwest end of Keystone agreed to build the pool and purchase 200 memberships for the area if the neighbors purchased 200 more. The Hargleroad addition makes up most of the northern
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advertising the great opportunity for land that had yet to be plowed. Boulevards were laid out which is why the center of
Keystone is not like many of the neighborhoods that developed at the time where they mostly had a grid like layout. The boulevards were laid out with trees lining them and were
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Keystone pool is a popular feature of the neighborhood. When Keystone was being developed, the current neighbors asked the developer to build a swimming pool. The developer agreed and the pool was built at the corner of 83rd and Templeton. The pool has changed through the years building a
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Keystone is an active neighborhood well known for its tree lined roads. Keystone is home of the great Howard Rudloff, where he may be seen sitting on the porch of his iconic red brick ranch home, one of the first in the neighborhood, bordering
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Homes began to pop up around the current homes and started to stretch down Boyd Street. After
William Paxton Jr's death, tracts began to be sold. Advertisements used the winding, tree lined roads as a selling point. In 1925 Adams School was built just south of the Paxton home that sat at the
310:. The influence of the railroad is seen along the trail within Keystone. The trail runs along 88th St but curves towards 90th St just before reaching Keystone Dr. The remnants of the old Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley railroad that followed the same path can still be seen today.
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Voorhees in 1883 and a year later deeded it to his son William Paxton Jr., who would own the land until his death in 1910. The Keystone Stock Farm occupied much of the land owned by the Paxtons.
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Keystone Park Addition. The land was divided into tracts and sold in amounts anywhere from 2 acres to 20 acres. Advertisements started running in the
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Unlike some of the older neighborhoods, Keystone does not have a grid-like setup outside of a few blocks. However, unlike many new subdivisions the layout does not rely on cul-de-sacs to reduce through traffic.
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