Brown County State Park is an Indiana state park on 15,776 acres (63.84 km2) near Nashville in Brown County, Indiana in the United States. The park opened to the public in 1929, and is Indiana's largest state park. It was the most visited Indiana State Park in 2008 with more than 1.3 million visitors per year. It is located along the Knobstone Escarpment and features dramatic views from its highest elevations.
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“Just the same as a month before,—
The house and the trees,
The barn’s brown gable, the vine by the door,—
Nothing changed but the hives of bees.”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
“In the County Tyrone, in the town of Dungannon,”
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“The park is filled with night and fog,
The veils are drawn about the world,”
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