Warder Park

Warder Park
Warder Park's Thomas Jefferson Statue.
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TypeMunicipal
LocationJeffersonville, Indiana
Coordinates38°16′30″N 85°44′32″W / 38.275032°N 85.742161°W / 38.275032; -85.742161
Created1881
Operated byJeff Parks Department
StatusOpen all year
Carnegie Library
The old Jeffersonville post office, located in the park

Warder Park is located in Jeffersonville, Indiana on Court Avenue. This park has been a part of the community since the mid-19th century, when it had a bakery to produce hardtack to Union soldiers during the American Civil War.[1] The park wasn't established officially until the year 1881 and is named after then Mayor Luther Warder.[2] Warder had wanted the site for a new city hall, but the city council chose a site between Spring and Pearl on the north side of Market Street for the city hall, and named the park after Warder as a gesture of goodwill.[3] A Carnegie Library was built in 1903.

  1. ^ Carnegie Library, Jeffersonville, Indiana (USA) - Carnegie Library Buildings on Waymarking.com
  2. ^ An Informal History of Clark County, Gerald Haffner, Ph.D., p. 109
  3. ^ Kramer, Carl. This Place We Call Home (Indiana University Press, 2007) p. 240