When this was done, is it any wonder that the white folks would retaliate? This went on for many years and the Indians were encouraged to make these raids by the English Military from the Canadian Shores. He drilled his men at what is now called Waynesville named in his honor and came through here, making the first street in Dayton and it is now known as Wayne Ave.
He met the Indians at what was called Fallen Timbers, near where Toledo now stands. The next year he called the Indians into conference at Greenville Ohio and they signed a treaty of peace August 20 , and this made it almost safe to settle in this country.
They employed Daniel C Cooper to be their agent and sent him to mark the road, cutting the brush as far as possible, from Hamilton to Dayton. Then Israel Ludlow was sent to Dayton , to lay cut and survey the new city to be called Dayton. There were to be seven streets running east and west, the first to be called Water, making it close to the river and as near parallel to it as possible.
These were to be 16 degrees south of east and all to be numbered. There were to be five streets running north and south, at rights angles to the others and the first one from the east was to be called St Clair, in honor of the Governor.
The next one was to be Jefferson in honor of the President, the Next was to be the Main street of the city and so was called Main street. The next year , the settlers started from Cincinnati in three parties, one going by boat down the Ohio and up the Miami in March. Usually at this time of the year, the weather is cold, windy and disagreeable, and the water in the river is high, making it very hard to push a boat up stream against the current, with a load of people and supplies.
They arrived upon April first, with no houses built nor supplies other than what they had brought with them. So it was necessary for them to provide shelter for the women and children, which they did by setting the boat on edge and building a fire upon the open and or side. The streets were all grown up with hazel bushes and other brush and crossing Main street in front of where the present Court House is now located, was quite a large ditch, almost impossible to cross at that time of the year, on account of the mud.
This joined what is now Patterson boulevard near its intersection with 5 th street. In , Cooper who became the owner of the city, built a grist mill near the corner of Water and the present boulevard, taking water for power form Madriver and wasting it down the ditch, which emptied into the river below Prairie street near the Fairgrounds. Just think, a boat could leave here one morning and arrive at Cincinnati the next morning, and no danger of getting into trouble on account of speeding. The canal was very busy until the railroads became a success, when they took all the business, leaving but little for the canal.
The flood of , washed away the Aquaduct over Madriver and filled the canal with mud so the canal quit business promptly. Railraods had come in and had proven the reliability, delivering people and goods much quicker than any other mode of transportation. The City bought the canal property from the state and located a street there and named it Patterson Boulevard in honor of John H. His Father Jefferson Patterson and Col Robert Patterson, his grandfather who moved to Dayton in , have done much to make Dayton the city it now is.
This canal was used to carry off, the water used for power in these factory buildings between Third and Sixth streets. Much flour, linseed oil, lumber, machinery and other things were made here and shipped away by canal. At the corner of Fourth and St Clair, a large brick building still in good repair, built and used by S.
It was a very successful business in my young manhood, but now the building is used for storage. He was a building contractor and this required lots of brick, and finding a good bed of clay between Brown street and Wayne Ave , he started a brick yard there, hauling the brick to the city by way of brown street, and that gave his name to the street.
In early days, Brown street was just as it is today to Morton Ave then out to Oak street. The road from Lebanon to Dayton came in as it does now by Far Hills and Brown, but as it was the road from Warren county, the road was called Warren clear through to Main. After the Civil war, Brown street was cut through to Warren and the names were changed making Brown street through to Oakwood. Near where Morton ave takes off, Cline street goes west about a hundred feet, then turns south about a square, then west again to Warren.
This is caused by the Seely ditch running that way and the houses were built backing up to that open ditch. At first the street was called Zigzag street but now it is Cline street. When the canal was first built in , it had to be filled with water, so it was extended in a northeasterly direction, where the railroad elevated tracks are now located, from Sixth street to Madriver and a dam was built to throw the water into the canal.
Thus the canal was supplied with water at Dayton. When the canal was extended on to Toledo , it used this route at first, being changed in to parallel Madriver to the basin at Water street , giving fresh water to the basin. To obtain the ground wanted for the Government, Third street was extended straight out until it met the Eaton Pike.
Many residents ended up paying additional sums of money to become the unchallenged owners of their property, In addition to these problems, Dayton was built on a flood plain and the community was flooded a number of times in its early years. When Ohio became a state in , Dayton became the seat of Montgomery County. Beyond its initial growth the town remained relatively small until the War of During this conflict, Dayton served as a mobilization point for American attacks on Canada and against British troops in the northwestern part of the United States.
During and shortly after the war, a tobacco factory, two banks, textile mills, and several other businesses were begun. With the completion of the Miami and Erie Canal in , Dayton was linked to Cincinnati and the town continued to thrive.
Nine turnpikes connected Dayton to other areas of the state. By the s, Dayton was one of the largest and wealthiest communities in Ohio. Dayton was heavily involved in Ohio's early industrialization. By the late s, the community had become the center of many types of industry. Several newspapers and other journals supported a growing publishing industry. Many of these publications dealt with either religious issues or agricultural interests. There were also German newspapers for the area's German settlers.
Dayton is a city in Ohio on the Great Miami River. Orville and Wilbur Wright conducted experiments on heavier-than-air flight in Dayton before their first successful flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in As a result, Dayton has earned the description "Home of Aviation. The native peoples that called the area home were the Miami, who had moved there after being pressured by The Iroquois farther east to relocate. With passage of the Indian Removal Act of , the natives were forced to leave their home and resettle in Kansas and later in Oklahoma.
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