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We would like to provide the residents of  Earl Park  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Earl Park Home page. The Earl Park Home page provides as much information as possible on Earl Park. Knowing Earl Park’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Earl Park’s Home page, you will also find Earl Park’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Earl Park has a population of 353. 45.9% of Earl Park’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.1 are female. 49.7% of Earl Park is married and 77.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $79,037, and the average rent is $642. Household median income in Earl Park is $52,917, and the individual median income is $25,125. Earl Park’s Ethnic is the following: White(95.2%), Hispanic(8.8%), Black(1.7%), Other(1.4%), Multiple(1.1%), Pacific(0.6%).


Earl Park was laid out July 31, 1872, by Adams D. Raub and named for his uncle, Adams Earl, one of the promoters of the Big Four railway from Lafayette to Kankakee. It consisted of 217 lots, the public sale of which on August 8 attracted some 2,000 people. Free lunch and free transportation on a special train of freight cars from Lafayette was provided.


The town's first building was a grain elevator, the second the railway station. Elias Wees opened the first general store, providing residents with groceries and provisions.Earl Park's first school, a one-story frame building, was erected around 1874 and expanded to a second story around 1878. The town gained a Catholic church in 1880, and a Methodist one in 1881, each costing about $2,500 to build and furnish. Every year, Earl Park holds the Earl Park Fall Festival, which attracts thousands of people from all over the United States.


It features a carnival, tractor pull, flea market, demolition derby, and some of the finest Blue Grass bands in the United States. Earl Park is home to the Benton County Wind Farm, the first large wind farm in Indiana, established in 2008. Earl Park was the birthplace of Matilde E. Moisant, the second woman in the United States to receive a pilot's license.


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