Tide Water Pumping Station

Tide Water Pumping Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Tide Water Pumping Station main building, December 2010
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Location	Southwestern corner of the junction of 900S and 300E, north of Coal City, Harrison Township, Clay County, Indiana
Coordinates	39°15′16″N 87°03′21″W / 39.25444°N 87.05583°W / 39.25444; -87.05583Coordinates: 39°15′16″N 87°03′21″W / 39.25444°N 87.05583°W / 39.25444; -87.05583
Area	12.5 acres (5.1 ha)
Built	1915 (1915)
Architect	George J. Hanks
Architectural style	Queen Anne
NRHP Reference #	99001076
Added to NRHP	September 3, 1999

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 1 1/2-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.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.