Photographer/Creator

Chet Smolski, Rhode Island Collge

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Date

5-1993

Description

Indianapolis’ White River State Park was built around the site of the Central Canal, a failed canal venture from the early nineteenth century. Since the restoration in the 1980s, the park has become the cultural center of the city and is considered America’s only urban cultural state park.

Notes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_River_State_Park

Rights

This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.

Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Recommended Citation

Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

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Keywords

Indianapolis, Indiana; White River State Park; urban parks; urban beautification; Central Canal; historic;

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