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French Lick Resort is a resort complex in the Midwestern United States, located in the towns of West Baden Springs and French Lick, Indiana.The 3,000-acre (12 km 2) complex includes two historic resort spa hotels, stables, a casino, and three golf courses that are all part of a $500 million restoration and development project.
Lane opened a hotel around 1852 near the settlement of Mile Lick and named it the Mile Lick Inn. In 1855, when the community was renamed West Baden in reference to Wiesbaden (or Baden-Baden), a spa town in Germany that was known for its mineral springs, Lane changed the hotel's name to the West Baden Inn.
Northern Indiana: 2,718 acres, one-room schoolhouse nature center Clifty Falls State Park: Madison: Jefferson: Southern Indiana: 1,416 acres, includes a nature center Cool Creek Park and Nature Center: Carmel: Hamilton: Central Indiana: website, 90 acres, operated by the County Cope Environmental Center: Centerville: Wayne: Central Indiana
In 1962. it became the Ouabache State Recreation Area, before finally achieving state park status in 1983. [2] The Wabash River runs through the park, which provides fishing and nature viewing. A 100-foot (30 m) fire tower offers an excellent view of the park. The park receives about 200,000 visitors annually. [1]
The north shore drive of Clear Lake, Indiana in 1910. Clear Lake became incorporated as a town in 1933. [4] A post office was established at Clear Lake in 1870, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1903. [5]
On October 27, 1920, citizens of Madison, Indiana gave the land for the park, 570 acres (230 ha), to the state of Indiana at the suggestion of Richard Lieber. This was after a year's work by the citizens. A naturalist program for Indiana state parks started in 1927, with Clifty Falls being one of the first four parks to implement the program. [2]
Mounds State Park is a state park near Anderson, Madison County, Indiana featuring Native American heritage, and ten ceremonial mounds built by the prehistoric Adena culture indigenous peoples of eastern North America, and also used centuries later by Hopewell culture inhabitants.
Washington Park is a historic public park and national historic district located on Lake Michigan at Michigan City, LaPorte County, Indiana. The park encompasses 13 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, 11 contributing structures, and 21 contributing objects, and includes the Michigan City Zoo .