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United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 5,7- Page I North Liberty Park LIST OF RESOURCES St. Joseph County IN Two contributing buildings: former bathhouse, bandstand Three non-contributing buildings: an open frame picnic shelter with hipped roof and two open frame picnic shelters with gable roofs Three contributing structures: remains of dam (with pedestrian bridge), former pool basin (including concrete check dams), fieldstone bridge abutments One non-contributing structure: concrete bridge over former dam Two contributing objects: fieldstone planter, fieldstone bench One non-contributing object: stone memorial One contributing site (the entire park), which includes the low stone wall along the bottom of the hill, two stone corner entrances, a pair of entrance posts, three sets of fieldstone steps down the hill, and a circular fieldstone ruin in the northwest corner of the park NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION North Liberty Community Park, originally called simply North Liberty Park or City Park, lies on the northwest side of the small town of North Liberty in southwestern St. Joseph County, Indiana. The park is located on Jefferson Street, north of the extension of West Market Street. The park encompasses a little under seven acres and is essentially rectangular with a trapezoidal piece missing at the southwest corner. Potato Creek runs southward through the park, and a small parcel of land west of the creek just north of the extension of Market Street is privately owned. The east edge of the park is at street level, but most of the property is downhill from there in a little valley that is the flood plain of the creek. A chainlink fence marks the boundary of the park except on the east and part of the south. West of the creek the land is all wooded. East of the creek more than half of