Earl Park is a town in Richland Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States.
It consisted of 217 lots, the public sale of which on August 8 attracted some 2,000 people.
Elias Wees opened the first general store, providing residents with groceries and provisions.
[6] Earl Park's first school, a one-story frame building, was erected around 1874 and expanded to a second story around 1878.
The town gained a Catholic church in 1880, and a Methodist one in 1881, each costing about $2,500 to build and furnish.
It features a carnival, tractor pull, flea market, demolition derby, and some of the finest Blue Grass bands in the United States.
Earl Park was the birthplace of Matilde E. Moisant, the second woman in the United States to receive a pilot's license.
U.S. Route 52 skirts around the northeast edge of town, and the Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad along the southwest.
According to the 2010 census, Earl Park has a total area of 0.94 square miles (2.43 km2), all land.