Ball Brothers Manufacturing Company officially moves its glass manufacturing facility to Muncie, Indiana, to make use of the natural gas boom in the area.
Ball brothers purchased and donated the Indiana Normal Institute to the state. The campus reopened in 1918 as Indiana State Normal School – Eastern Division, now known as Ball State University.
Edmund F. Ball unveils plans for Minnetrista, a cultural center at the site of the Ball Brothers’ Muncie homes. The state-of-the-art facility opened in 1988.
