Muncie, city, seat of Delaware County, eastern Indiana, on the White River; incorporated as a city 1865. Manufactures include aerospace and telecommunications equipment, pharmaceuticals, metal products, machine tools, and electrical components. Ball State University (1918) and two junior colleges are here. The city is named for the Munsee group of Delaware people, who settled on the site in the 1770s. Industrialization was spurred by the discovery of natural gas in 1886. Muncie, as the “typical” American town, was the subject of the Middletown books (1929, 1937) by the anthropologists Robert S. Lynd and Helen M. Lynd. Similar studies of the city were made in the early 1980s. Population 77,216 (1980); 71,035 (1990); 67,430 (2000).Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001
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