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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18BS_hemingray-glass-company_Muncie-IN.html
Side AFounded as Gray & Hemingray inCincinnati, Ohio in 1848. Incorporated1870 in Covington, Kentucky; companyproduced glass bottles, jars, oillamps, light globes, tableware andinsulators. After discovery of naturalgas in east-central Indiana,Hemi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17CG_first-indiana-gas-well_Eaton-IN.html
The first significant commercial gas well came in Sept. 15, 1886, near here south of the Mississinewa River and East of the railroad, ushering in the gas boom era. Almeron H. Crannell, a Civil War veteran and later resident of Hartford City, drill…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17CF_slickville-tile-works_Gaston-IN.html
Site of production mill and three beehive kilns, first fueled by wood and then by natural gas, circa 1883-1910, owned & operated by Manassa Myers, Sr. family. Produced drainage tiles (hollow cylinder-shaped sections) from adjacent clay pit for loc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKZD_world-war-i-war-memorial_Muncie-IN.html
The Elizabeth Sears Memorial to Deceased Veterans of theWorld War 1917 - 18
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKZC_shaffer-chapel-african-methodist-episcopal-church_Muncie-IN.html
Structure, circa 1893, is Muncie's oldest standing public school building. Purchased by church congregation, circa 1928. Rallying point in August 1930 when bodies of two African-American men, lynched in Marion, were brought to Muncie for embalmmen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKZB_ball-brothers-glass-manufacturing-company_Muncie-IN.html
Side - A Company incorporated in New York 1886 to manufacture glassware (particularly fruit jars). Brothers Edmund, Frank, George, William, and Lucius Ball all were trustees. Company - promised money, land, and free natural gas - came to Muncie; f…