Old Electrical Plant in Crawfordsville, Indiana
Taken on the bridge over Sugar Creek – 4/29/2026 at 4:01 pm

Photo by Richard Yost / Edited by John Fraim

In A Silent Way / Miles Davis

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The title for the photo features two old tall smokestacks in the shut-down electrical plant. A symbol to the old American power and ingenuity. Now, shut down and the plant abandoned. Rich stopped on the bridge over Sugar Creek into Crawfordsville, Indiana to get the photo.

The enterprise was officially formed as a publicly owned entity in 1890. Actually, the City of Crawfordsville was a pioneer in its desire to have a municipal light plant. History indicates that the justification for the city wanting to control its own destiny was due to its ongoing battles with privately owned firms that supplied the city with gas, electric lighting as well as water. Although many political obstacles and legal battles that took place with the private companies had to be overcome prior to the operation of the city’s first plant, the first Crawfordsville plant was christened on September 9, 1891.