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Warder Park is located in Jeffersonville, Indiana on Court Avenue. This park has been a part of the community since the mid-19th century, when it had a bakery to produce hardtack to Union soldiers during the American Civil War.〔(Carnegie Library, Jeffersonville, Indiana (USA) - Carnegie Library Buildings on Waymarking.com )〕 The park wasn't established officially until the year 1881 and is named after then Mayor Luther Warder.〔''An Informal History of Clark County'', Gerald Haffner, Ph.D. p.109〕 Warder had wanted the site for a new city hall, but the city council chose a site between Spring and Pearl on the north side of Market Street for the city hall, and named the park after Warder as a gesture of goodwill.〔Kramer, Carl. ''This Place We Call Home'' (Indiana University Press, 2007) p.240)〕 A Carnegie Library was built in 1903. ==Carnegie library== The Carnegie Library was one of the early Carnegie libraries funded in Indiana by Andrew Carnegie, to the tune of $15,000. The Neo-Classical architecture was done by Arthur Loomis, a nationally respected architect in the firm of Clarke & Loomis Architecture, with the cornerstone being set on September 19, 1903.〔Haffner p.111〕 Loomis was a native of Jeffersonville. The building once held classes for Indiana University Southeast. The Carnegie Library is the central focus point in Warder Park and now contains the Remnant Trust of Rare Books and Documents. The building will eventually hold an extensive collection of titles, including: * A 19th-century edition of ''Life and Times of Frederick Douglass'' * A 560-year-old page of a Gutenberg Bible * A 1350 copy of the Magna Carta * A copy of the first British Edition of Lewis and Clark's ''Travels to the Source of the Missouri River''. The Carnegie Library opened Oct 25, 2006 after a 4 million dollar renovation for the Remnant Trust and also included a bas-relief sculpture, titled ''The Timeline of Liberty'', by sculptor Lorenzo Ghiglieri. The 6-ton, three panel (7 feet tall and 20 feet wide), bronze sculpture traces 2,500 years of human liberty from ancient Greece to modernity. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Warder Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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