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The first significant commercial gas well came on September 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.
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Eaton, Indiana · United States
