This was one of the first places Richard Lieber considered when establishing the Indiana State Park system.
With his twenty-man committee, he started acquiring parks, succeeding with McCormick's Creek and Turkey Run both opening on December 11, 1916, without any state funds (The Indianapolis Motor Speedway was a major private donor).
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It was after a tour of Yosemite National Park in 1900 that he became a proponent of conservation.
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