Newspaper Headline from 1886

ID: 1900 ~ Source: Kokomo Gazette ~ Creator: Kokomo Gazette ~ Date: October 12, 1886

This file appears in: Natural Gas Well Drilled in Kokomo

This front-page headline from the Kokomo Gazette, a weekly newspaper, celebrates the first discovery of gas in Kokomo and what that portends for the city.

This file appears in: Natural Gas Well Drilled in Kokomo

Natural Gas Well Drilled in Kokomo

By Howard County Historical Society

The use of natural gas as fuel goes back to the 1820s, but its real value didn’t become apparent until the 1880s. The discovery of a gas reserve in Pennsylvania revolutionized the steel and glass manufacturing industries there in the 1870s and…