An Indianapolis What If: The Proposal to Dam the White River

This episode explores a proposal in the early 1920s to construct a dam on the White River at present day 38th Street in Indianapolis in order to create a large lake in the river valley north of that point, The proposed lake would have flooded the town of Rocky Ripple and made Butler University a lakeside campus.This podcast is based on one of the first blogposts I published on Class900Indy.com back in 2018. An updated version of this blog may be found here: https://www.class900indy.com/post/a-river-runs-through-it-but-we-d-rather-have-a-lake-the-fairview-park-reservoirSources for the podcast may be found at the bottom of the blog post above.Want to help offset the hosting costs for the blog and podcast? Leave a donation here: https://ko-fi.com/class900indyhistory.Venmo can be accessed here: https://venmo.com/u/ejfujawa