Muncie
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- Names
Muncie
Munseetown
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on White river; founded on land of Delaware tribe, who were moved west in 1820; grew with establishment of railroad & discovery of natural gas; noted as subject of "Middletown" by R & H Lynd, a sociological study of "typical American town."
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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