The Lilly Orchard on the grounds of Park Tudor School has been an Indianapolis landmark for more than 100 years. Eli Lilly's father purchased the land in 1896, and the family started planting apple trees the following year. Mr. Eli recalled spending many a youthful Saturday on the hills and briar patches of the Lilly Farm with friends, playacting King Arthur or frontiersman Daniel Boone.
Generations of Park School and Tudor Hall students can still remember driving out to the Lilly Orchard on October afternoons to buy the apple cider for which the orchard became locally famous. The Lilly family deeded the property to Park School in 1965, but the Lilly Orchard remains open to this day and continues to provide autumn memories to many Indianapolis families.