Editing Arcadia, Indiana (section)

===Manufacturing and Industry===
By 1852, the railroad was complete, which included a north and south road constructed by the railroad which ran from Indianapolis to Peru, Indiana.<ref>''Arcadia Centennnial, 1849-1949'' by the Arcadia Centennial Committee Organization, Chet Hall, James Correll, Jr., Elbert Etchison, Robert Knapp, Charles Vornbrock et al, 1949, p. 2.</ref> Immediately Arcadia enjoyed steady growth as a farming community, and attracted a wide variety of businesses, which in the early years included a cigar factory, a cabinet shop, a flour and sawmill, and a planing mill to manufacture building materials.<ref name="Arcadia, Indiana' 1972, p. 16"/>
[[File:History of Hamilton County, Indiana - DPLA - 7edea355885fc080b02e7b257afa09ad (page 219) (cropped).jpg|left|thumb|174x174px|Street Scene in Arcadia, 1915]]
The town continued to attract new businesses through the end of the century. By the 1880s the town included a wagon shop, a drug store, a butcher shop, a hardware store, and a number of dry goods and grocery stores, a furniture store, an undertaker, and two grain elevators.<ref>''A History of Arcadia, Indiana'' by members of the Arcadia Study Club, Marian Bishop et al, 1972, p. 17.</ref> In 1888, the Frankfort Oil and Gas Company drilled for natural gas and struck a vein which ran from Arcadia and to the southwest for some six miles, which caused a small boom in industry.<ref>''A History of Arcadia, Indiana'' by members of the Arcadia Study Club, Marian Bishop et al, 1972, p. 18.</ref> By 1880, eastern factories had used most of the timber they needed for fuel, and were moving west where coal was plentiful, but natural gas allowed them to fire kilns used in glass and brick manufacturing. A brick plant was opened by George Walters and B. P. Hollett, which supplied brick for miles up and down the [[Erie Railroad]], using clay from nearby land. The Baker Glass Company moved operations from Findley, Ohio in 1894, using gas donated by the town, and later the Flint House Glass Company set up a factory to manufacture lamp chimneys.<ref>''A History of Arcadia, Indiana'' by members of the Arcadia Study Club, Marian Bishop et al, 1972, p. 84.</ref> In 1898, the Arcadia Cheese Factory was opened by E. Wiles and John Burris, manufacturing an average of 200 lbs. of cheese a day. In about 1890, the first creamery was established in Arcadia by Toll Driver.<ref>''A History of Arcadia, Indiana'' by members of the Arcadia Study Club, Marian Bishop et al, 1972, p. 83.</ref>