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Muncie (/ ˈ m ʌ n s i / MUN-see) is an incorporated city and the seat of Delaware County, Indiana, United States. Previously known as Buckongahelas Town, named after the prominent Delaware Chief, [8] it is located in East Central Indiana , about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Indianapolis . [9]
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Muncie is a city in Indiana in the United States. It is...
- Delaware County, Indiana - Wikipedia
Muncie, city, seat of Delaware county, eastern Indiana, U.S. It lies along the White River, 55 miles (89 km) northeast of Indianapolis. Muncie is the average American town described in the classic sociological study Middletown, published in 1929 by Robert S. and Helen M. Lynd.
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- How Muncie Became A Manufacturing City
- The Legacy of The Ball Family
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The ground on which you now live is Myaamiaki Native American land. It was stolen and colonized by some of our ancestors two hundred years ago. The Myaamiaki are one of several Indigenous nations with ancestral homelands in what is now Indiana. Our community was actually founded by the Lenape, another Native nation. The Lenape arrived along the Whi...
Muncie became a village in 1827, a town in 1854, and a city in 1865. Our economy was driven by agriculture in these first few decades. As such, the earliest settlers came as farmers, teamsters, service workers, and merchants. Most arrived from New England, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky. A few even came from overseas. Then in 1886, th...
As this Gas Boom got underway, a prominent Irish immigrant named James Boyce convinced the Ball brothers to move their glass mason jar manufacturing business to Muncie in 1887. The Balls obliged and relocated operations here. For most of the next century, Ball Corporation produced millions of the nation’s canning jars right here in Muncie. The gas ...
In the early 20th century, the Ball families also established two prominent institutions that still serve us, Ball State University and IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital. Since their founding, the university and hospital have attracted thousands of new Munsonians to work as healthcare providers, support staff, administrators, and educators. Thousand...
Right now, something genuinely special is happening. Several new businesses opened recently, or will soon. Our downtown is undergoing a decades long-renaissance. Our trail system is fast becoming one of the best in the nation. The local arts community flourishes. And Muncie Entrepreneurs launch new enterprises frequently, pushing our city’s ameniti...
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The city of Muncie gets its name from one of the two primary languages (“Munsee” and “Unami”) of the Lenape Native Americans who lived in Delaware County from the 1790s until 1821. After the American Revolution, numerous Native groups formed the pan-tribal Western Confederacy to block white settlement and retain Native territory.
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Muncie, named after the "Munsee" clan of Lenape people and home to Ball State University, is a city in the east of Central Indiana. It was an industrial titan in its time but then felt the effects of deindustrialization. Get in edit. Map of Muncie. Get around edit.
Muncie was officially incorporated in 1865 as a largely agricultural settlement comprised of pioneers and other early settlers. With the discovery of natural gas in the late 1870s, industrial business moved into the area including the Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company in 1887.
