Muncie, Indiana Muncie, Indiana Muncie City Hall in 2006.
Muncie City Hall in 2006.
Official seal of Muncie, Indiana Muncie, Indiana is positioned in the US Muncie, Indiana - Muncie, Indiana Location of Muncie in the United States Muncie / m nsi/ is an incorporated town/city and the seat of Delaware County, Indiana.
It is positioned in East Central Indiana, about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Indianapolis. The United States Enumeration for 2010 reported the city's populace was 70,085.
It is the principal town/city of the Muncie urbane statistical area, which has a populace of 117,671. Its name was officially shortened to Muncie in 1845 and incorporated as a town/city in 1865.
Muncie advanced as a manufacturing and industrialized center, especially after the Indiana gas boom of the 1880s.
It is home to Ball State University.
As a result of the Middletown studies, sociological research that was first conducted in the 1920s, Muncie is said to be one of the most studied United States metros/cities of its size. The region was first settled in the 1790s by the Lenape (Delaware) citizens , who migrated west from their tribal lands in the Mid-Atlantic region (all of New Jersey, southeastern New York, easterly Pennsylvania, and northern Delaware) to new lands in present-day Ohio and easterly Indiana.
The Lenape established several suburbs along the White River, including Munsee Town, near the site of present-day Muncie.
New pioneer began to arrive in what became Delaware County, Indiana, about 1820, shortly before the area's enhance lands were formally opened for purchase.
The small trading village of Munsee Town, retitled Muncietown, was chose as the Delaware County seat and platted in 1827. On January 13, 1845, Indiana's governor signed legislation passed by the Indiana General Assembly to shorten the town's name to Muncie.
Soon, a network of roads connected Muncie to close-by towns, adjoining counties, and to other parts of Indiana.
The Indianapolis and Bellefontaine Railroad, the first to arrive in Muncie in 1852, provided the town and the encircling area with access to larger markets for its agricultural production, as well as a faster means of transporting citizens and goods into and out of the area. Muncie incorporated as a town on December 6, 1854, and became an incorporated town/city in 1865. John Brady was propel as the city's first mayor.
Muncie's early utility companies also date to the mid-1860s, including the city's waterworks, which was established in 1865. After the American Civil War, two factors helped Muncie attract new commercial and industrialized development: the arrival of additional barns s from the late 1890s to the early 1900s and the discernment of abundant supplies of natural gas in the area. Prior to the discernment of close-by natural-gas wells and the beginning of the gas boom in Muncie in 1886, the region was primarily an agricultural area, with Muncie serving as the commercial trading center for small-town farmers. Illustration of Muncie, looking southeast in 1884.
The Indiana gas boom of the 1880s ushered in a new era of prosperity to Muncie.
Abundant supplies of natural gas thriving new businesses, industries, and additional inhabitants to the city. Although agriculture continued to be an economic factor in the region, trade dominated the city's evolution for the next 100 years. One of the primary manufacturers that appeared early in the city's gas-boom reconstructionwas the Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company, which was titled the Ball Corporation in 1969.
The Ball brothers, who were searching for a new site for their glass manufacturing company that was closer to an abundant natural-gas supply, assembled a new glass-making foundry from in Muncie, beginning its glass manufacturing on March 1, 1888.
In addition to a several other glass factories, Muncie thriving iron and steel mills, including the Republic Iron and Steel Company and the Midland Steel Company.
(Midland became Inland Steel Company and later moved to Gary, Indiana.) Indiana Bridge Company was also a primary employer. By the time the natural gas supply from the Trenton Gas Field had decidedly declined and the gas boom ended in Indiana around 1910, Muncie was well established as an industrialized town and a commercial center for east-central Indiana, especially with a several barns lines connecting it to larger metros/cities and the arrival of automobile trade manufacturing after 1900. Numerous civic developments also occurred as a result of the city's expansion during the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s, when Muncie people assembled a new town/city hall, a new enhance library, and a new high school.
The city's gasworks also began operations in the late 1870s. The Muncie Star was established in 1899 and the Muncie Evening Press was established in 1905. A new enhance library, which was a Carnegie library project, was dedicated on January 1, 1904, and served as the chief branch of the city's enhance library system. The forerunner to Ball State University also appeared in the early twentieth century.
Several subsequent accomplishments to establish a private college in Muncie amid the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries also failed, but one proved to be very successful.
After the Ball brothers bought the school property and its vacant buildings and donated them to the State of Indiana, the Indiana State Normal School, Eastern Division, the forerunner to Ball State University, opened in 1918.
It was titled Ball Teachers College in 1922, Ball State Teachers College in 1929, and Ball State University in 1965. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, in tandem with the gas boom, Muncie advanced an active cultural arts community, which encompassed music and art clubs, women's clubs, self-improvements clubs, and other civil clubs.
Ottis Adams, who came to Muncie in 1876, later formed an art school in the town/city with fellow artist, William Forsyth.
Although their school closed with a year or two, other art groups were established, most prominently the Art Students' League (1892) and the Muncie Art Association (1905). By the early twentieth century a several barns s served Muncie, which helped to establish the town/city as a transit hub.
The Cincinnati, Richmond and Muncie Railroad (later known as the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway) reached Muncie in 1903.
The Chicago, Indiana, and Eastern Railroad (acquired by a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad system) and the Chicago and Southeastern (sometimes called the Central Indiana Railroad) also served the city.
In addition to the barns s, Muncie's roads connected to close-by towns and an electric interurban system, which appeared in the early 1900s, linked it to lesser towns and larger cities, such as Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Dayton, Ohio. With the arrival of the auto manufacturing and the related auto parts trade after the turn of the twentieth century, Muncie's industrialized and commercial evolution increased, along with its populace growth.
During World War I small-town manufacturers joined the rest around the county in convering their factories to manufacturing of war materiel. In the 1920s Muncie continued its rise as an automobile-manufacturing center, primarily due to its heavy trade and skilled workforce force.
Muncie's Klan membership was estimated at 3,500 in the early 1920s.
Increasing hostility toward the Klan's political activities, beliefs, and values also divided the Muncie community, before its popularity and membership decidedly declined by the end of the decade. Muncie inhabitants also made it through the challenges of the Great Depression, with the Ball brothers closing their part as primary benefactors to the improve by donating funds for assembly of new facilities at Ball State and Ball Memorial Hospital. (The hospital, which opened in 1929, later affiliated with Indiana University Health.) The Works Progress Administration (WPA) also provided jobs such as road grading, town/city sewage improvements, and bridge construction. The Lynds chose Muncie as the locale for their field research, although they never specifically identified it as "Middletown" the fictional name of the town in their study.
Muncie received nationwide attention after the printed announcement of their book, Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929).
The Lynds returned to Muncie to re-observe the improve amid the Depression, which resulted in a sequel, Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts (1937). The Lynds' Middletown study, which was funded by the Rockefeller Institute of Social and Religious Research, was intended to study "the interwoven trends that are the life of a small American city." The Lynds were only the first to conduct a series of studies in Muncie.
Caplow returned to Muncie in 1998 to begin another study, Middletown IV, which became part of a Public Broadcasting Service documentary titled "The First Measured Century", released in December 2000.
The Ball State Center for Middletown Studies continues to survey and analyze civil change in Muncie. A database of Middletown surveys conducted between 1978 and 1997 is available online from the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA). Due to the extensive knowledge collected from the Middletown studies amid the twentieth century, Muncie is said to be one of the most studied metros/cities of its size in the United States. In addition to being called a "typical American city", as the result of the Middletown studies, Muncie is known as Magic City or Magic Muncie, as well as the Friendly City. Ball State and Muncie's airport also trained pilots for the U.S.
Navy. The postwar era was another reconstructionof expansion for Muncie, with continued expansion and evolution of industries, assembly of new homes, schools, and businesses.
Since the 1950s and 1960s Muncie has continued as an education center in the state and emerged as a county-wide community center.
As enrollment at Ball State increased, new buildings were erected on the college's campus.
Beginning in the 1970s a several manufacturing plants closed or moved elsewhere, while the rest adapted to industrialized shifts and remained in Muncie.
Ball Corporation, for example, closed its Muncie glass manufacturing facilities in 1962; its corporate command posts relocated to Broomfield, Colorado in 1998. Muncie was also home to other manufacturing operations, including Warner Gear (a division of Borg - Warner), Delco Remy, General Motors, Ontario Corporation, A.
Muncie and Yorktown looking north in 2012.
According to the 2010 census, Muncie has a total region of 27.392 square miles (70.94 km2), of which 27.2 square miles (70.45 km2) (or 99.3%) is territory and 0.192 square miles (0.50 km2) (or 0.7%) is water. Ball State University after a January snow in 2014.
Muncie has a humid continental climate (Koppen climate classification Dfa) experiencing four distinct seasons.
Climate data for Muncie, Indiana The Ball brothers, industrialists and framers of Ball Corporation, were influential in the city's civic and economic development.
From its early days as a county-wide trading center for the encircling agricultural improve to its first wave of industrialized evolution brought on by the Indiana gas boom in the mid-1880s, Muncie has retained its ties to an industrialized economy, and to a lesser extent its agricultural roots.
In addition, the arrival of the forerunner to Ball State in the early twentieth century contributed to Muncie's evolution as an educational center, while Ball Memorial Hospital, established in 1929, led to the city's reputation as a healthcare center for east-central Indiana.
Muncie's primary industrial evolution encompassed glass manufacturing, iron and steel mills, and automobile manufacturing and auto parts factories.
Among its early primary employers was the Ball Corporation, established by the Ball brothers of Buffalo, New York, who opened a glass factory in Muncie in 1888. Other notable manufacturers in addition to the Ball Corporation with operations in Muncie have encompassed Borg - Warner, The Broderick Company (aformer division of Harsco), Dayton-Walther Corporation, Delco Remy, General Motors, New Venture Gear, Hemingray Glass Company, Ontario Corporation, A.
As in many mid-sized metros/cities in the Rust Belt, deindustrialization, which began in the 1960s, impacted Muncie's economy.
From 2001 to 2011, Muncie lost thousands of jobs as the town/city continued transitioning from a blue-collar workforce to a white-collar service economy primarily based on community care, education, and retail. Muncie has thriving some new manufacturers, while older factories have been converted to other industrialized uses.
In 2009 Muncie became the U.S.
While many older unemployed or underemployed inhabitants firmly identify with the manufacturing identity of the city, newer inhabitants identify with the city's shift towards educational and community services. Contention is greatest among inhabitants living in the once-industrialized sections of the city's south side, as much of the economic expansion over that last several decades has taken place on Muncie's north side. The town/city also struggles to retain college graduates.
Even with Ball State's presence, only 32.2 percent of Delaware County's working-age grownups (ages 25 64) hold a two-year or four-year college degree, which is below the nationwide average. The first decade of the 21st century saw a cultural shift toward small-town businesses and economic empowerment, boosted by the Muncie Downtown Development Partnership and the residents, patrons, and company owners of the downtown community.
In 2007, Muncie was rated the most affordable college town in America by real estate business Coldwell Banker. In 2015, Forbes ranked Muncie 27th among small places for company and careers and 18th for cost of doing business. First Merchants Corporation is based in Muncie, and the first Scotty's Brewhouse locale opened in the town/city in 1996. IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital is Muncie's biggest employer.
2 Ball State University 2,800 3 Muncie Community Schools 843 The Fine Arts Building on the ground of Ball State University, home to the David Owsley Museum of Art.
The visitor center for the Cardinal Greenway is situated in the restored Cincinnati, Richmond, & Muncie Depot.
The David Owsley Museum of Art collection, which includes over 11,000 works, has been in the Fine Arts Building on the Ball State University ground since 1935.
The Horizon Convention Center, positioned downtown, offers 47,000 square feet of exhibition space and homes the Muncie Children's Museum. The town/city also has a large group of autonomous art arcades. Three of the city's biggest performing arts centers belong to Ball State University: the 3,581-seat Emens Auditorium, the 600-seat Sursa Performance Hall, and the 410-seat University Theatre. Downtown performing arts spaces include the Muncie Civic Theatre and Canan Commons, an outside amphitheater and greenspace that opened in 2011.
In addition, the Muncie Ballet and the Muncie Symphony Orchestra are prominent in the city's arts community.
The Cardinal Greenway, Indiana's longest rail trail project, stretches 60 miles (97 km) from Richmond to Marion, Indiana.
Muncie's music scene has been home to such acts as Brazil, Everything, Now! Muncie also hosts a several small-town music festivals, including Muncie Gras and Muncie Music - Fest. Muncie also has a network of craft beer enthusiasts. Muncie is home to the NCAA Division I Ball State Cardinals which is a member of the Mid-American Conference.
Muncie was once home to the Muncie Flyers, also known as the Congerville Flyers, the city's experienced football team from 1905 to 1925.
The Muncie team was one of the eleven charter members of National Football League (NFL).
Muncie was also home to the Muncie Flyers, a minor league hockey team.
Daniel Chester French's Beneficence, emblem of Ball State University.
Ball State University Hoosier Academy Muncie Hoosier Academy Muncie Muncie Area Career Center Muncie Central High School Muncie Public Library's Carnegie Library.
The Ball State Daily News As part of the Indianapolis market, Muncie receives Indianapolis' network affiliates.
East Central Indiana's PBS member station, WIPB, is positioned in Muncie.
Indiana 67.svg State Road 67 Indiana 332.svg State Road 332 Muncie Indiana Transit System (MITS) provides 14 fixed bus routes daily, except Sundays. See also: Category:People from Muncie, Indiana Note: This list does not include Ball State University graduates.
Please see List of Ball State University alumni for notable alumni.
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