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1854 – present
The park's historic structures are interpreted where they stand, which makes the park itself the collection. The reconstructed Schrader Springhouse, reached by a half-mile walk on Trail 4 from the Porter Rea Cemetery parking lot, is opened to visitors by the naturalist, who explains how the farm family that built it used spring water as refrigeration before iceboxes — with, on Archaeology Day, a treat cooled in the historic system itself, thanks to donations from the Friends of Potato Creek. The Naragon Red Barn, at the West Boat Launch, shelters a population of Indiana brown bats and a tour of the township's agricultural past. Porter-Rea Cemetery, deeded in 1854, carries its 2003 Historical Bureau marker and a virtual tour produced under the state's cultural-resources program telling the Huggart Settlement's story at the graves themselves. Gard's forty acres in section 25, and on P. Walsmith's land in section 30 — none of them marked on the ground, all of them now part of what a visitor can know standing at Worster Lake.