How White River State Park Can Finish Beautifying the first Gateway to the West

In 1820, when John Mccormick built the first cabin in Indianapolis on Fall Creek, when Fall Creek entered the White River at three different locations, it was this that would become the nexus of a whole new city and state capital. In the next year, Isaac Wilson, a Revolutionary War  veteran built Wilson's Flour Mill. 

Upon Wilson's death, the flour mill would relocate and become known as the three-story Indianapolis Steam Mill, the first incorporated business in the city. The Steam Mill used the power of Fall Creek where it entered  the White River to cut wood. By the time the National Road had crossed over the White River in 1834, numerous other mills had cropped up in the area to make everything from flour, cornmeal and stock feed