The town's own parks: Memorial Park, Bourissa Hills, and the new Colfax Park

AS OF NOVEMBER 2026 · administration by council liaison, per the Government leg

The state's own township record names the town's parks in one sentence: "Bourissa Hills and Memorial Park are in the Town of New Carlisle" — the Indiana township association's Olive Township page, which names the township's two county parks in the same breath. Memorial Park is the town's festive ground: the Hometown Days festival fills it each July, the farmers' market sits in it on Saturdays from June through September, and the Wiffle Ball championship's fields — Migley Field and the Wiffle Kingdom grounds — stand on and around it (Sports carries the game whole). Bourissa Hills is the town's second park, its name carried into the county's sporting vocabulary by the Little League's "Palace of Bourissa Hills" and by a Wiffle Kingdom section named for it. To these the town added a third in the present year: Colfax Park, a small lot at Cherry and Front streets named for Schuyler Colfax and dedicated in June 2026 — the South Bend Tribune's account quotes the historical society's director at the dedication; Colfax himself, the South Bend statesman, is South Bend's record to tell, and the naming — a town honoring the county's most famous political name on a street-corner lot — is this town's fact. The parks' government, in the record reached, is a council liaison: the Government leg's roster carries the parks among a council member's liaison charges (Abbott, Parks), and no separate park board or parks master plan for the town surfaces in the sources read. The founding courses of Memorial Park and Bourissa Hills — their gifts or purchases, their naming occasions — do not stand in the record reached and are a named gap (GAP-NC5-REC-1), settler the town council's minutes and park records and the town press runs; the parks print at their present documented size, not at an invented depth.

Sources:

1. Indiana Townships (in.gov/townships), Olive Township: Parks — "Two county parks are in the Township: Bendix Woods and Spicer Lake… Bourissa Hills and Memorial Park are in the Town of New Carlisle."
2. Town of New Carlisle official site (the Memorial Park farmers' market, Saturdays June–September, festival Saturday excepted).
3. South Bend Tribune, 28 June 2026 (Colfax Park dedicated June 2026, Cherry and Front streets; the society's director quoted).
4. The Government leg of this build (the council liaison charges, Abbott holding Parks) — pointer.