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2 unusual facts about Lipe Art Park


Lipe Art Park

The park is located on an urban brownfield site where a multi-track train yard lay in the 19th and early 20th centuries, a yard whose round-house was the site of an important anti-slavery rally in 1852 at which the eminent abolitionist Frederick Douglas spoke.

Located in a historically thriving, creative neighborhood (the near west side), Lipe Art Park was named after a local inventor and businessman, Charles E. Lipe, who owned the C. E. Lipe Machine Shop at 208 S. Geddes Street.



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