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First Indiana Gas Well IN156 Print E-mail

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, drilled the well.


Placed by the Indiana Historical Bureau under grant from Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company

600 E. Harris St., Norsemen Park, Eaton, Delaware County Indiana

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