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This confluence of events triggered a year period of decline. Fountain Square. History of Fountain Square. Several family members lived in the area and loved it of course. Thank you for your incredibly fascinating work and photos! My grandmother owned a house at Prospect St.

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Her instructions were that upon her death, her house be sold and the money used for the fountain. The city commissioned Indianapolis native and sculptress Myra Reynolds Richards to create the memorial that would serve as Fountain Square's new namesake.

Reynolds Richards designed the new fountain, titled "Pioneer Family," as a monument to Hill's legacy. Erected in , the statue shows the Hill family — mother, father, son and daughter — dressed in Native American clothing. They are all looking in different directions, as if sizing up the land they are entering.

Around this time, Fountain Square began to develop as a center of commerce for the city, Barnett said. The area was also Indianapolis' first theater district, as 11 theaters opened between and , according to the Polis Center. As traffic shifted from horses to mules to automobiles, complaints began to arise about the fountain, which to this day is located in the middle of Prospect Street.

Due to safety reasons, and to improve the traffic flow of one of the city's major commercial areas, the city removed the fountain in and relocated it to the Garfield Park Conservatory, where it remained for over a decade. But while traffic flow may have improved, the namesake of the area was too important to the community to be gone for long.

The United Southside Community Organization fought — successfully — for the fountain's return. And that's why they were really up in arms when they took it away. But there was a clamor enough that they got it back 15 years later in 19 69," Greiff said.