Bird Song Park

In 2020 the Downtown Angola Coalition completed a Pocket Park Project Quip Grant through the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs and Indiana Arts Commission. It has a pollinator garden with native Indiana prairie plants, community made birdhouses, twinkle lights in the trees, interactive mural sidewalks, 2 sculptures, and 3 benches. 

This project was possible through a partnership between Purdue Extension, Cameron Memorial, Angola Rotary, Blue Heron Ministries, Master Gardeners, Easter Seals Rise, Steuben County Soil and water, Sherwin Williams, Clean Water Indiana, Indiana Arts Commission, MSD of Steuben County, Everage Auto, KPC Media and the Herald Republican, Cahoots and artists, Elton Bishop, KPC Media, Cheryl Kellett and Reggie Johnson. We would like to cultivate these relationships further. We are grateful for this wonderful opportunity to beautify a downtown green space! he pocket park project is part of a QUIP grant through the Indiana Office of Rural & Community Affairs and the Indiana Arts Commission.

On January 1, 2021, a monolith was erected in the park. In May, 2021, there was a ribbon cutting. By this time, Bird Song Park had attracted additional birdhouses, left by anonymous community members, and a community rock garden, where painted rocks have been collected, traded, or left behind, painted by an anonymous artist. In Spring of 2021, MSD of Steuben County child development class will be designing and implementing an interactive fairy garden for children to play.

In August, 2022, an informational sign was erected to inform visitors about the native plants within the gardens.