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A trolleybus of the Oakwood Street Railway, one of multiple companies that once operated trolleybuses in Dayton, passing the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1937. The first electric trolley bus (ETB) service in Ohio began operation in Dayton, on April 23, 1933, when the Salem Avenue-Lorain Avenue line was converted from streetcars to trolley coaches — or trolley buses, as they are most ...
The name Five Rivers MetroParks comes from five major waterways that converge in Dayton. These waterways are the Great Miami River, Mad River, Stillwater River, Wolf Creek, and Twin Creek. Five Rivers MetroParks comprises more than 15,400 acres (62 km 2) and 25 facilities with a number of amenities and features.
Oakwood Street Railway Company (Oakwood and Dayton Transit Company) 19 January 1936 (1 October 1956) [g] Sold to CTC. Peoples Railway Company (Peoples Transit Company) 11 October 1936 (9 March 1945) [g] Sold to CRC. The City Railway Company (later The City Transit Company) 25 March 1938 Dayton-Xenia Railway Company 1 October 1940 (31 October ...
The worst weather disaster in Ohio history occurred along the Great Miami River in 1913. Known as the Great Dayton Flood, the entire Miami River watershed flooded, including the downtown business district of Dayton. As a result, the Miami Conservancy District was created as the first major flood plain engineering project in Ohio and the United ...
Dayton, Ohio: City Transit Company trolleybus 444, built in 1947 by Pullman-Standard, at the bus stop for route 8-Leo on Keowee Street just south of Leo Street. It is displaying non-normal signage (6 Monument Ave.) in this photo, because it was operating on a special excursion for fans/enthusiasts, not in service.
Dayton (/ ˈ d eɪ t ən / ⓘ) is a city in Montgomery and Greene counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. [5] [6] As of the 2020 census, the city proper had a population of 137,644, making it the sixth-most populous city in Ohio.
It was invented and improved by members and employees of the Ohmer family of Dayton, Ohio, especially John F. Ohmer who founded the Ohmer Fare Register Company in 1898, [1] and his brother Wilfred I. Ohmer of the Recording and Computing Machines Company of Dayton, Ohio. This latter company employed up to 9,000 people at one time and was a major ...
The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway (CH&DR) was an electric interurban railway that existed between 1926 and 1930 in the U.S. state of Ohio. It was absorbed in 1930 into the new Cincinnati and Lake Erie interurban railway. In typical interurban fashion, it had its own right of way in open country, although this was often adjacent or ...