Ball Brothers’ Colossal Batch Tower

Read time: 12 min.

Much of Muncie’s history is tied to the Ball Brothers, five New York industrialists who moved their fledgling glass business here in the 1880s. Although the company’s Muncie glassworks closed in 1962, a colossal physical reminder of Ball’s industrial omnipotence here is a mysterious tower left behind on East Memorial Drive.

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