Located on the Ohio River,
Dayton has been a Dayton was founded by a small group of settlers on April 1,
1796, seven years before the admission of Ohio to the Union in 1803.
With the admission of Ohio to the Union in 1803, Montgomery County was formed.
The county originally consisted of about 6,300 square miles, now known as the
Miami Valley.
The town of Dayton itself was incorporated in 1805 and named after Jonathan Dayton,
a captain in the American Revolutionary War and signer of the U.S. Constitution.
By 1812 Dayton was a thriving town, complete with a new brick courthouse, five
new taverns, grist and sawmills, and frame houses springing up to replace log
cabins.
Work on a Dayton to Cincinnati Canal was begun by 1827 and completed in 1829 at
a cost of more than half a million dollars.
Today the city offers great attractions and historical sites, fantastic arts venues,
a thriving downtown, beautiful parks, a variety of sporting sites and fabulous
shopping and dining. |
By 1840, Dayton had 6,000
inhabitants and was granted its city charter on March 8, 1841.
Dayton is the county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio and is the Birthplace of
Aviation, being once home to powered flight inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright,
owners of a bicycle shop on West Third Street, who brought worldwide recognition
to Dayton when they gave the world the wings to fly shortly after the turn of
the century.
Success came on December 17, 1903, when they flew the powered aircraft plane in
a controlled flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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45430, 45431, 45432, 45433, 45434, 45439, 45440, 45449, 45458, 45459. |
