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Muncie Fruit Jars

Muncie, IN (1906, 1908)

Everyone has seen the Ball Corporation’s famous mason jars. Especially with the home canning re-revolution of the past few years, anyone who has ever opened up pinterest or instagram has been inundated with them.  But nothing like what it was like in Muncie, Indiana in the late 1800s to early 1900s.

The Ball Brothers, owners of a small glass-making company originally from New York, moved to Muncie in 1888 after learning about the abundance of natural gas and fruit farms in the area, which would be a boon for their production of Mason Jars, whose patent had expired. The Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company began to dominate the economy of the small town.

The local baseball club played for the Inter-State Association in 1906, took a break for one year, and then the Indiana-Ohio League in 1908.  The team’s name, once again, was inspired by the local economy.

The Ball Brothers were philanthropic in their adopted home town. A private teacher’s college named Eastern Indiana Normal School located in Muncie went bankrupt in 1907. Ten years later, the brothers bought the land and administration building, and then gifted the school to the State of Indiana. In thanks for their generosity, the state named this new public university Ball Teachers College in 1922. After going through several name changes, the school took on its current name, Ball State University, in 1965, which also happened to be the freshman year of its most famous alumnus, David Letterman. The City of Muncie lies in the Rust Belt and the Ball Corporation, like many others in cities all over the Northeast, moved its headquarters and main manufacturing plant out of the city. Ball actually stopped making mason jars in 1993, when the canning business spun off into a company called Jarden, which now holds the license to make the jars. Although fruit jars are no longer produced in Muncie, and the baseball team only played there for two seasons, the legacy of the Ball Corporation and the Brothers lives on.  Muncie even hosts an annual “Fruit Jar Show” for collectors of antique fruit jars.