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| This photo of the old swimming pool is from my first visit to Rose Island back in January 2009 before it was open to the public. |
The Rose Island Amusement Park was once the Louisville area's premier family attraction in the early twentieth century. The park had a wide array of attractions for its time including a swimming pool, hotel, zoo, and dance hall. The flood of 1937 essentially wiped out most of the park and it was never reopened. The ruins of the park sat abandoned for decades on the bank of the Ohio River, as it became part of the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant. After INAAP was shut down the land became part of Charlestown State Park. In 2011 the trails of Charlestown State Park finally expanded into the former Rose Island Amusement Park making access to the park relatively easy.
