The Delaware County Courthouse is located at 100 West Main Street, Muncie, IN 47305; phone: 765-747-7726. See: Delaware County Neighborhoods
Photo: J.C. Johnson House, circa 1897, located at 322 E. Washington Street in Muncie. Formerly listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Photographed by User:Nyttend (own work), 2012, [public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, accessed October, 2024.
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Established in 1827, rural Delaware County was annexed into the Muncie city limits. It was named for the Delaware (Lenni Lenape) Indians who still inhabited the area at that time. The first discovery of natural gas in Indiana occurred in 1876 in the town of Eaton, Delaware County.
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