The Abe Martin Lodge and its cabins in Brown County State Park take their name from a period when the rugged hills of Brown County formed the backdrop for homespun humor. Rustic cabins provided the park's first lodging, with a commissary for groceries and a shower facility for visitors. Over time, the commissary became a dining room and the cabins were remodeled. The lodge was named in honor of Kin Hubbard for his most famous character, Abe Martin. Hubbard, an Indianapolis News cartoonist, created Abe Martin as the voice of his political and social opinions and set the character in Brown County, which he described in 1905 as a rugged, almost mountainous, wooded section of Indiana lacking telegraphic or railroad connections and inhabited largely by people who subsisted by blackberrying, sassafras-mining, and basket making. Hubbard also added characters such as Miss Fawn Lippincut, Uncle Niles Turner, and Tell Binkley, drawing their names from childhood acquaintances and Kentucky jury lists. His cartoon depiction of Brown County was syndicated nationwide from 1905 until his death in 1930. The lodge later expanded, adding sleeping rooms in the late 1960s, more sleeping rooms, family cabins, and conference rooms in the 1980s, and an Aquatic Center in 2008.