# Railroad Park *Public park in Waverly, Wright County, Minnesota, and site of the Hubert H. Humphrey Memorial historical marker.* Railroad Park is a park in [[Waverly]], [[Wright County, Minnesota]].[^1] The Historical Marker Database records the text of the marker in the park. By that text, Hubert H. Humphrey gave his last public address at the park on Memorial Day, May 30, 1977.[^1] The marker, *Hubert H. Humphrey Memorial*, was dedicated on September 10, 2005.[^1] The marker also records Humphrey's residence in Waverly and his death at his Waverly home on January 13, 1978. It carries a sentence Humphrey used to describe the town.[^1] The record assembled for this article does not establish when or by whom the park was created, who owns or maintains it, or the origin of its name. ## Where Railroad Park is in Waverly, in Wright County, [[Minnesota]].[^1] The *Hubert H. Humphrey Memorial* marker stands in the park and is entry no. 78365 in the Historical Marker Database. The marker records the park as the place of Humphrey's last public address.[^1] The marker connects the park to Humphrey's residence at Lake Waverly, in the same town. It records that he died there on January 13, 1978.[^1] The year he acquired the property is not established in the record. The marker's text includes Humphrey's sentence about the town: "It's just a small town near a lake in Minnesota, but to me, it's the peace of the world."[^1] ## In the at-issue record One at-issue entry in the project's Humphrey package concerns the park. The entry is AI-Humphrey-065, dated May 30, 1977. It records three things from the marker: the last public address at Railroad Park, Humphrey's death in the same town on January 13, 1978, and the sentence the marker carries.[^1] The project anchors the entry to a White House Government Transparency Task Force fact sheet of July 2026. Its stated reason is that the public record of a public life is the baseline against which its corpus is audited.[^2] The anchor document's content is not reproduced in the record for this article. ## Notes [^1]: Historical Marker Database, *Hubert H. Humphrey Memorial* (marker dedicated September 10, 2005; entry no. 78365) — records the marker at Railroad Park, Waverly, Wright County; its text, including Humphrey's sentence on the town; the Waverly residence; the May 30, 1977 last public address at the park; and the January 13, 1978 death at the Waverly home. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=78365 [^2]: The White House, *The White House Government Transparency Task Force Fact Sheet* (July 2026) — the document the project names as anchor for at-issue entry AI-Humphrey-065; cited for that anchoring only. https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/07/the-white-house-government-transparency-task-force-fact-sheet/