Cason Family Park now open to public

Cason Family Park now open to public

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — Cason Family Park has officially opened to the public as the newest community park in over two decades.

How saving a one-room schoolhouse turned into WL’s Cason Family Park

(Photo: Dave Bangert)Lynn Cason, standing in a new park bearing his family’s name on opening day Thursday, told the story a few times about a day in summer 2016, meeting a few hundred yards away near the corner of Cumberland Avenue and the new U.S. 231 with then-West Lafayette Mayor John Dennis.On the table was the question about what to do with the Morris School, a one-room schoolhouse last used in the early 20th century and that had an expirat…