Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company

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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; ...

Sam Bass and the Big Springs Robbery

The first and greatest robbery of a Union Pacific train took place near here on the night of September 18, 1877. The legendary Sam Bass and five companions, after capturing John Barnhart, station-master, and destroying the telegraph, forced Union Pacific ...

The Ring

1831 - 1932

“This day [June 11] the first clearance on the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal was issued from his office to the Mauch Chunk Canal Boat No. 30, Capt. William C. Zanes, bound to Bristol with 30 ...

Honoring the Ex-Braceros and Their Contributions

Honoramos los Ex-Braceros y Sus Contribuciones

During and after World War II, nearly 5,000,000

contracted braceros came to work in agriculture

and on the railroads, the majority in California and

the San Joaquin Valley, under U.S. and Mexican Treaty,

demonstrating their patriotism during the great ...

Haymarket During the Civil War

“Pass Around Their Army Without Hindrance”

On June 25, 1863, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and about 5,000 of his cavalrymen approached

Haymarket. They acted on orders from commanding Gen. Robert E. Lee, who was on the western side of the Bull Run ...

The Town Spring

Civil Engineer R.B. Tufts noted on the 1897 Morgan County map that "The Public Spring . . . which for all these years has been sending forth a bold, steady stream of pure, cold water, was the cause of establishing ...

Ringling Brothers Circus

“The Greatest Show on Earth” was born and grew to maturity in Baraboo, just north of here. When the five Ringling brothers gave the first performance of their "Great Double Shows, Circus and Caravan," May 19, 1884, the main tent ...

Haymarket During the War

Civilian Hardships

Throughout the Civil War, Haymarket and its residents endured the consequences of occupying an important geographical location. Marching armies

passed through the town during the First and Second Battles of Manassas,

the engagement at Thoroughfare Gap, the “Buckland Races,” and numerous

other ...

Springing Over the Monocacy

The Enduring Aqueduct

Springing Over the Monocacy. Captain William McNeill of the U.S. Topographical Engineers called this aqueduct “...a work which, while it is highly ornamental, unites...in its plan and execution, ‘the true principles of economy, usefulness and durability.’ ” Much ...

Engineering Marvels on the Comstock

From the first recorded ore discoveries in 1859, the Comstock area was part of a global community. Arriving from places as diverse as the Germanies, Poland, Russia, and North America, Jewish immigrants with engineering backgrounds, entrepreneurial spirit, and creativity, they ...