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No amusement park, trolley park, or kiddie park ever stood in North Liberty in any source reached. The county's amusement ground of the era, Springbrook Park — later Playland Park — stood in South Bend and is that city's record; the fair's one season there is the fairs leg's. What this township got instead, two generations later, was a state park: Potato Creek, dedicated as a recreation area on 6 June 1977, whose 327-acre Worster Lake carries a swimming beach, boat rental, and campgrounds on township ground east of town. Its whole course is the parks leg's; here it registers as the destination that replaced, for this town's families, the amusement parks other towns' children grew up with — reached by car on State Road 4, free to enter with a park pass, and public. Darcy Worster, the naturalist who campaigned for it, built his case in part on hand-crafted model insects he sent to legislators — the park's own interpretive tradition keeps the story, and it is the closest thing this record has to a children's-entertainment founding legend.