Claypool was founded in 1873. Claypool was previously an important rail transportation hub because it was located at the junction of the Big Four RailroadBig Four and the Nickel Plate railroad lines. One of Claypool's claims to fame is the fact that it is the hometown of two of Indiana's basketball greats, Judi Warren, who became the first http://www.hoopshall.com/inductees/missbasketball.html Miss Basketball of Indiana in 1976, and Kevin Ault, http://www.hoopshall.com/inductees/mrbasketball.html Mr. Basketball of Indianaof 1996. Both played for Warsaw Community High School. Judi Warren has been inducted in the http://www.hoopshall.com/inductees/women/2002/warren.html Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. Claypool was featured in an article in Time Magazine in its September 8, 1980 issue. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,924387,00.html Link to article. In 2006 Claypool was selected by http://www.louisdreyfus.com/ Louis Dreyfus Agriculture Industries, a French Corporation, as the location for a new biodiesel manufacturing plant. When completed it will be the largest biodiesel manufacturing plant in the world. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claypool%2C_Indiana