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Charlestown State Park is an Indiana state park on 5,100 acres (20.64 km 2) in Clark County, Indiana, in the United States. The park is on the banks of the Ohio River , 1 mile (2 km) east of Charlestown .
The park was once a part of the huge 15,000-acre Indiana Army Ammunition plant, which used to occupy the land. The park is located 8 miles east of Interstate-65, off of Ind. 62.
Stone fortification and mounds at the Devil's Backbone rock formation. Devil's Backbone is a rock formation and peninsula formed by the flow of Fourteen Mile Creek into the Ohio River, and is currently situated in Charlestown State Park near Charlestown, Indiana, and across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky.
The first state park in Indiana was McCormick's Creek State Park, in Owen County in 1916, followed in the same year by Turkey Run State Park in Parke County. The number of state parks rose steadily in the 1920s, mostly by donations of land from local authorities to the state government. Of the initial twelve parks, only Muscatatuck State Park ...
5. Pokagon State Park. Pokagon State Park, a little over an hour east of South Bend off of I-69, in Angola, Ind., had about 710,000 visitors last year and is Indiana’s fifth state park.
Rose Island became part of the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant.When the plant was deactivated, the land was given to the new Charlestown State Park.There was no land access to the area where Rose Island was located, but the concrete pilings of the footbridge connecting the peninsula to the mainland remain and can be seen from one of the park's hiking trails.
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