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(Lick Skillet)
Delaware County, Indiana
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Township:  Harrison
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Coordinates:  40.2845  -85.5766  [S1] - [S2] -

Intersection of Delaware County Roads 1000W and 650N in Harrison Township  [S2] -

Southwest of Gaston - Along current CR 650N, west of CR 925W near Madison County Line in Harrison Township  [S4] -

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 Lick Skillet:  [S2] -
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Industry:  Tile Works
- Production mill and tree beehive kilns fueled first by wood and then by natural gas - Started production 1883 - [S2] -

-  "The tile works occupied 5 acres, leased by the Myerses from Charles Leeson.  I turned out scads of clay drainage tile - 400 rods a day of the standard 4-inch diameter size alone.  [S3] -
-  Slickville Historical Marker:  [DCHS Newsletter, Apr-June 2008, page 1, 2]
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Commerce:  General store - Grist Mill - two Blacksmith Shops - Saw Mill - [S2] -
The hope for a railroad proved not to be and the gas well dried up, so after about 25 years the town was no more  [S2] -
W. Burtram Blacksmith Shop - Late 1890's to early 1900s -  [S4] -
 
 
7 Sept 1996, 2 pm:  Dedication of Historical Marker for Slickville - [S2] - [S3] -

Marker Text: 
Slickville Tile Works
Site of production mill and three beehive kilns, first fueled by wood and then by natural gas, circa 1883-1910, owned and operated by Manassa Myers, Sr., family.  Produced drainage tiles (hollow cylinder-shaped sections) from adjacent clay pit for local use.  Drainage tiles have been used throughout Indiana to develop and maintain farm land."
 

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S1 Google Maps:  Search:  40.2845  -85.5766  
S2 Newspaper Article:  "Slickville lives again at marker".  The StarPress (Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana), 8 Sept 1996, page 3A.  Acc002080/Doc0789.pdf Doc0789.pdf
S3 Newspaper Article:  Our Neighborhood, by Bill Spurgeon "Never heard of Slickville? It once was a thriving community"  The StarPress (Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana), 27 Aug 1996, page 2B.  Acc002080/Doc0790.pdf Doc0790.pdf
S4 Newspaper Article:  [Album of Yesteryear, The Star Press (Muncie, Indiana), 1 Sept 1996, page 2B] - Doc2918.pdf
S5 Flook, Chris. Lost Towns of Delaware County, Indiana. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2019. Bk4212

http://lostdelawarecounty.chrisflook.org/ 		 
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