Warder Park | |
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Type | Municipal |
Location | Jeffersonville, Indiana |
Coordinates | 38°16′30″N 85°44′32″W / 38.275032°N 85.742161°W |
Created | 1881 |
Operated by | Jeff Parks Department |
Status | Open all year |
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.