Province Park - Franklin IN

City:: Franklin, IN
Site Type:: Parks and Recreation
New Deal Agencies:: Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
Quality of Information:: Very Good
Marked:: No
Site Survival:: Extant

Description

City park, formerly called Pioneer Park. The park includes the first cemetery plot in Franklin Township, with burials from the 1840s.

Presumed attribution of the Creekside Shelter is confirmed by newspaper accounts at the time of construction.

Source notes

Name change - 2-27-23 email from R. Stultz, Franklin Parks to D. Logan

Cemetery - Nostalgia News, #31 (Spring 1991), Johnson County Historical Museum, pg. 21

WPA project record card, OPN 165-52-3118, in the collection of the Lawrence County Historical Museum, Bedford, Indiana. Project concerns construction and repair of drives, landscaping, and appurtenant work as continuation of OPN 65-52-3039. Text includes the statement: "In addition to projects specifically approved."

"WPA Workmen Build New Shelter House, 3-Mile Driveway on Pioneer Park Project,"

Franklin Evening Star (51)227, April 2, 1936, pg 1, Newspapers.com image provided by Johnson County Public Library 3/2/2023

Site originally submitted by Doug Logan on March 5, 2023.