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Brookville’s
Grandstand
Brookville,
Franklin County, Indiana
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Erected by: Installed 2002 Indiana Historical Bureau, Franklin
County
Historical Society, and 50 years of Franklin
County
Football Committee 2001
Located: Mill Street between 8th and 9th Streets,
Brookville,
Indiana
Text: This grandstand built 1922 to seat 1000 and serve
fans
of new Brookville semi-pro team.
Twenty box
seats
included to help pay for construction.
Central
platform
included for community activities.
Facility
later
used for youth sports.
Structure renovated
1992
for continuing use by community.
Baseball
has been played in Brookville since at least
1867
when local amateur teams played out-of-town
teams.
A local team joined semi-pro Southern
Indiana
Baseball Association 1922 and other regional
leagues
in later years. Land
given for the public park
by
Amos and Mary Butler 1907.
Wooden
grandstand
built here in 1914 seated 300.
