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Ground broken 19 October 2023 · opening unreached
The largest lodging house ever built under this town's name is a state inn, and it is not in the town. The facts of record, from the State of Indiana's own groundbreaking account of 19 October 2023: the Lodge at Potato Creek, on the scenic south shore of Worster Lake at Potato Creek State Park near North Liberty, the eighth lodge of the Indiana State Parks Inns system and the first built since 1939; a preliminary plan of 120 guest rooms, a full-service dining room seating 150, a conference centre with three break-out rooms and capacity for 350, an indoor aquatic centre, indoor and outdoor gathering spaces, a mini-nature room, a café and a gift shop; $100 million appropriated in the state budget to support construction; operation through the Indiana Inns Authority, the legislatively established quasi-governmental entity that runs the inns. The boundary discipline of the famous-locations leg applies with equal force here: the lodge stands in Liberty Township, and this section claims it at township size. Its construction course, completion and opening date were not reached in any carrier — a named gap whose settler is the DNR's lodge project page read at opening. When it opens, the present map of this section inverts: a town that could not document a single nineteenth-century hotel will have, three miles from its line, the newest state-park lodge in Indiana.