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Ground broken 19 October 2023
On 19 October 2023 the Governor of Indiana came to Liberty Township to break ground for a building whose fame is a superlative of absence. Governor Eric J. Holcomb joined the Department of Natural Resources to break ground on the Lodge at Potato Creek, "the first state park lodge in Indiana built since 1939" — the eighth inn in the Indiana State Parks Inns system — on the south shore of Worster Lake. The published plan: 120 guest rooms, a full-service dining room seating 150, a conference center for 350, an indoor aquatic center, a café, a gift shop and a mini-nature room, supported by $100 million appropriated in the state budget that year, and operated through the Indiana Inns Authority. Whatever its eventual place in the park's life, the lodge has already done one documented thing: it put North Liberty's township on the state's front pages as the site of an eighty-four-year first. Its completion and opening state as of November 2026 was not reached in any carrier and stands as a named gap; the groundbreaking, the appropriation and the plan are the dated facts this section prints.