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Revisiting Showmen’s Rest

The most southern end of Forest Park is the final resting place of the trapeze artists, bareback riders, lion tamer, strongmen, clown families and dozens of others, including “Smiley,” “Baldy,” “4 Horse Driver,” and “unknown” in the Showmen’s Rest section of Woodlawn Cemetery. The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus was making their way from Michigan City to Hammond, […]