Noblesville, IN news and local guide

Accounts of the name differ: it honors either James Noble, one of Indiana's first two U.S. senators, or, according to legend, Lavina Noble of Indianapolis, to whom Josiah Polk was engaged. The Peru and Indianapolis Railroad was completed through town in 1851, strengthening its economy, and work on a second line, the Anderson, Lebanon and St. Louis, later the Midland, began in 1875. The city's first big growth came with the Indiana gas boom, after its first natural gas well was drilled near 11th and Pleasant streets in 1888, and many Victorian homes and most of the downtown business district were built then. Noblesville has grown rapidly again recently, from 28,590 people in 2000 to 51,969 in 2010. Sources Wikipedia: Noblesville, Indiana