Tide Water Pumping Station | |
Nrhp Type: | hd |
Nocat: | yes |
Location: | Southwestern corner of the junction of 900S and 300E, north of Coal City, Harrison Township, Clay County, Indiana |
Coordinates: | 39.2544°N -87.0558°W |
Architect: | George J. Hanks |
Architecture: | Queen Anne |
Added: | September 3, 1999 |
Refnum: | 99001076 |
Tide Water Pumping Station, also known as Benton Station and SOHIO Pumping Station, is a historic pumping station complex and national historic district located in Harrison Township, Clay County, Indiana. The complex includes the -story, brick gale roofed pump house (1915); frame warehouse; a metal shed; two Queen Anne style dwellings; a metal garage; a concrete sluice and bridges; and the remains of a tennis court, dam and pond, and buried pipes. It is one of 14 pumping stations built along a 546.16 mile oil pipeline built between Crawford County, Illinois and Rixford, Pennsylvania. The station closed about 1957.[1]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.