On March 17, 1960, a plane crashed in a bean field (at the time the McIntyre farm) near Cannelton out Mill Stone Road. This plane was a Lockheed Electra. It carried a total of 63 people who were flying from Chicago, Illinois to Miami, Florida. All who were on board perished. All that could be seen from above was a large crater where the plane had gone down. There is now a stone Memorial placed by the crater area that was erected by the Cannelton Kiwanis and public donations. (see the photo) It has a 9 ft. high center tablet with four tablets around that listing the names of all of the people on board. There is a torch engraved at the top of the center tablet and it has an egraving that says: "This memorial, dedicated to the memory of 63 persons who died in an airplane crash at this location, March 17, 1960, was erected by public subscription in the the hope that such tragedies will be eliminated." The inscription was written by Bob Cummings, Cannelton lifelong resident and civic leader. The Memorial service was held May 28, 1961 and was attended by many people, including many family and friends of the victims of the crash. The site was maintained for many years by the Cannelton Kiwanis, and is now cared for by the people of Cannelton.

We interviewed Mr. William Bennett, lifelong resident of Cannelton and principal of Cannelton Elementary for more than 42 years, and he said this about the crash:
"Well, I just happen to see it, I wasn't up there where it happened...but there was a group of kiddos playing out in the back yard, two of them happen to be my two oldest daughters, and we saw this fiery thing going across the sky and we all stopped to watch it,...not really knowing what it was and we didn't know for five or ten minutes...we thought it went down somewhere and we figured it went down into the river. About ten minutes later we heard the sirens and from then on it was chaos and we heard that there was a plane crash at Millstone. You couldn't get up there, they wouldn't let you up there...and about the time you thought you could get up there it was just a steady stream of cars and when you did get up there you had no place to go to turn around so there was just a locked number of cars from here on Highway 66 clean up to Tell City. The only people that could get anywhere were here in town and could turn around and go the other way. 

There is a marker up there now, and it turned out that all of the people on the plane including the pilot and copilot were killed...the plane made a hole that went down about 30 feet but there was clothing strewn all over the place. What we had seen evidently or what we were told that what we saw was is one of the engines that had torn loose and was on fire...we had not seen the plane but it went down about half a mile from where the plane itself then went down. It is one of the most weird things that keeps coming back to me all the time, how that situation did occur. Of course they set up a morgue over here at the gym but they never did have any real reason to use it, but they had emergency wise. There were a lot of people coming to town hoping that they would bring bodies up to identify. They are all still up there though in that hole in the ground. They did find two diamond rings and that is the only thing they found outside of a lot of clothing. The plane was going from Chicago going to Miami, that is where the plane was going to. "