Tide Water Pumping Station

SW corner of 900S and 300E, Coal City, Indiana. County/parish: Clay.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 03, 1999. NRIS 99001076.

6 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 1 contributing structure.

Also known as:

  • Benton Station
  • SOHIO Pumping Station

From Wikipedia:

Tide Water Pumping Station

Tide Water Pumping Station, also known as Benton Station and SOHIO Pumping Station, is a historic pumping station complex and national historic district located in Harrison Township, Clay County, Indiana. The complex includes the 1+12-story, brick gale roofed pump house (1915); frame warehouse; a metal shed; two Queen Anne style dwellings; a metal garage; a concrete sluice and bridges; and the remains of a tennis court, dam and pond, and buried pipes. It is one of 14 pumping stations built along a 546.16 mile oil pipeline built between Crawford County, Illinois and Rixford, Pennsylvania. The station closed about 1957.: 6, 8 

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132002734

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