ELWOOD

elwood, a city of madison county, indiana, u.s.a., on duck creek, about 38 m. n.e. of indianapolis. pop. (1880) 751; (1890) 2284; (1900) 12,950 (1386 foreign-born); (1910) 11,028. elwood is served by the lake erie & western and the pittsburg, cincinnati, chicago & st louis railways, and by an interurban electric line. its rapid growth in population and as a manufacturing centre was due largely to its situation in the natural gas region; the failure of the gas supply in 1903 caused a decrease in manufacturing, but the city gradually adjusted itself to new conditions. it has large tin plate mills, iron and steel foundries, saw and planing mills, wooden-ware and furniture factories, bottling works and lamp-chimney factories, flour mills and packing houses. in 1905 the value of the city's factory product was $6,111,083; in 1900 it was $9,433,513; the glass product was valued at $223,766 in 1905, and at $1,011,803 in 1900. there are extensive brick-yards in the vicinity, and the surrounding agricultural country furnishes large supplies of grain, live-stock, poultry and produce, for which elwood is the shipping centre. the site was first settled under the name of quincy; the present name was adopted in 1869; and in 1891 elwood received a city charter.