Postcard of crowd enjoying a spectacle at Cook's Park, with the clubhouse to the right, at what was formerly 410 W. Maryland St. "Pigeon Springs was a very popular health resort in the 1850's. It was located on the east bank of Pigeon Creek, where Maryland Street now crosses. It had extensive buildings for lodging guests who came to enjoy the rest and the mineral waters. William Bates, the proprietor, catered especially to the Southern trade. (http://historicevansville.com/image.php?id=recreational%2FPigeon+Springs+-+sketch.jpg) A salt well was part of the park. Through the 1860s-1890s the ownership/name seems to have varied, but sometime between 1890-1895, the F.W. Cook Brewing Co. constructed/reconstructed Cook's Park on this location. The club house (sometimes called the pavilion) and lake date to 1915. Later known as Exposition Park and Pleasure Park, it operated until the Prohibition years, and the clubhouse was razed in 1935. Nothing remains of this park today.