Congerville

Township: Center

Location:
Muncie: Area bounded by Memorial Drive and Madison, 26th and Franklin Streets

Congerville could best be described as a neighborhood in Muncie since it was never incorporated.

"...neighborhood bounded roughly by Memorial Drive [12th Street] and Madison, 26th and Franklin streets. In the waning years of the 19th century Congerville was an industrial as well as a residential suburb, and its growth and fame extended well into the 20th century."

"Its factories included the Midland Steel Co. west of Walnut Street between 15th and 21st streets, a firm that left the city in the early 1900s. The Midland plant moved to the new community of Gary, where iron ore could be taken from northern Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota by boat. It was cheaper than rail transportation and besides, the natural gas used for fuel by the firm in Muncie had pretty much run out." [S2 page 4A] ??

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"Congerville got its name from a family named Conger, early residents of the area. There was a Congerville School, on the northeast corner of Elm and 21st streets; until 1931 there was a Congerville streetcar line. Roosevelt School, across Elm to the west , replaced the Congerville school."

"And then there were the Congerville Fliers. A semiprofessional football team in the early 1900's, they played teams from similar industrial communities around the Midwest. Briefly, in 1923, the Fliers became the Muncie Fliers, playing in what would become the National Football League. Unhappily, they did not win a single league game, and the Fliers dropped out after that." [S2 page 4A] -

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Sources: [S3 page 194] -

" 1901 - March 18 - A Large part of Congerville is annexed to Muncie City" [S3 page 194]

Congerville Eagles Basketball Team players - named in caption - abt 1927 -
[Album of Yesteryear, Muncie Star, 15 Nov 1987] - Doc2680.pdf

Congerville annexed to Muncie, 18 Mar 1901 [S3, p 194]

The Enterprise Company secured four large iron and steel and machinery factories for the city in 1892 and 1893: the Whiteley Reaper Works, the Midland Steel Company, the Common Sense Engine Company, and the Indiana Iron Works. In the next few years, the company also attracted the Whiteley Malleable Iron Works, the Muncie Wheel Company, and the Muncie Iron and Steel Company. South of the Indiana Iron Works, the Muncie leadership convinced Conger, the Akron industrialist, to lay out a factory suburb for workers in the iron and steel plants, which he named Congerville. [31] These successes made Muncie the center of iron and steel manufacturing in the gas belt by the mid-1890s.

[31] Conger was also persuaded by the Enterprise Company to build the Indiana Iron Works, which became the source of employment for many of the workers in Congerville, Indiana. See Kemper, History of Delaware County, 153; Ned H. Griner, Gas Boom Society (Muncie, Ind., 1991),

Link, (Accessed 11 March 2017)

Congerville & Whiteley Trolley Car Picture - Link, (Accessed 11 March 2017)

Professionally, Muncie was once home to the Muncie Flyers of the National Football League (NFL). Also known as the Congerville Flyers, the team played professional football from 1905 to 1925 and were one of the 11 charter members of the NFL, playing in the league from 1920 to 1924. Not to be confused with the Muncie Flyers of the NFL, the city was also home to a minor league hockey team, the Muncie Flyers of the International Hockey League for a single season (1948–1949). Link, (Accessed 11 March 2017)

Congerville Flyers Football Team, 1915 - Link, (Accessed 11 March 2017)

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Sources
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S1	Google Earth
S2	Our Neighborhood. Muncie, Indiana: The Muncie Star, 25 July 1994.
S3	Kemper, G.W.H., M.D., ed. A Twentieth Century History of Delaware County Indiana, 1908; reprinted., Evansville, Indiana: Whipporwill Publications, 1984. Vol. 1: http://www.archive.org/stream/twentiethcentury01kemp#page/n3/mode/2up Vol. 2: http://www.archive.org/stream/atwentiethcentu00kempgoog#page/n6/mode/2up
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