Lyons also was pivotal in the establishment of Eskenazi Hospital. After dinner, Lyons got on Bluitt’s boat, and they stayed on the boat well throughout the night. They celebrated Lyons’ birthday with dinner at Bella Vita Lakeside Grille on Geist Reservoir. For a long time Bluitt wanted Lyons to go boating with him, however, Lyons was afraid of water. Bluitt’s favorite memories was celebrating Lyons’ 74th birthday. “He was like a dad and a brother to me,” said Bluitt, Lyons general secretary at IMA.Īs Bluitt and Lyons worked closely together, they also had a good friendship. City-county councilman Monroe Gray honored Fitzhugh with a proclamation Aug. Lyons was the former president of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance (IMA) where he served as president for 20 years. “Chicago had Jesse Jackson, Atlanta had Martin Luther King, Indianapolis had Fitzhugh Lyons.” “He was a legend in his own right,” said Allen, an Indianapolis Public Schools board member. Lyons was a mentor for many, including Kenneth Allen and Dr. He retired from Galilee in 2019 after 50 years of preaching and teaching. Additionally, prior to any shoreline development, recreational use was already contemplated at Morse with plans to work with the state Department of Conservation to stock the lake with game fish, and for the installation of boating facilities.Lyons was pastor emeritus at Galilee Missionary Baptist Church, where he began preaching in 1981. While this plan did not move forward, plans to develop Morse did, and the early development at Morse does not appear to have had as much drama associated with it as did the same actions at Geist years earlier. As part of the drama associated with the land around Geist, in 1961 Shorewood/the IWC, offered a land exchange, where 500 acres of land at Morse would be set aside for a park, in exchange for development moving forward at Geist. More detail about the issues with development around Geist can be explored in this post, but Morse was pulled into the discussion when not long after Shorewood was created, IWC transferred 3,120 acres around Morse to the company. ![]() In 1960 the IWC started Shorewood, a real estate subsidiary, which was established to sell land around both Morse and Geist reservoirs (land which was still owned by IWC) for development. The selling of land along Geist for development purposes had created a several years long controversy, as the land had been set aside for park use. ![]() The red oval is the future location of the dam.Īside from providing water for Indianapolis, the reservoir had another valuable aspect to it: land. Cicero Indiana is at the top right corner of the map. The 1953 United States Geological Survey map below shows the land where Morse would be located prior to construction circled in red. However, like the secretive land purchases which had preceded the construction of Geist, no announcement of the location was made, but rumors began to circulate in 1949 about large land purchases being made along Cicero Creek northwest of Noblesville. ![]() By 1947 Cicero Creek was the target site, although surveys for the exact location were still being conducted, and in 1948 engineers determined that the reservoir would be on a section of Cicero Creek directly south of the town of Cicero, with the dam being constructed near the confluence of Cicero and Hinkle Creeks. The narrow valley, as well as its depth, made this an ideal location for the new reservoir. In that area, the creek wandered through a narrow valley (at least when compared to the Fall Creek Valley and the nearby White River Valley), with the adjacent bluffs rising 30-40 feet above the valley floor. ![]() A portion of Cicero Creek northwest of Noblesville had promise.
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