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48 unusual facts about "Dayton,"


110 N. Main Street

110 N. Main Street is an office tower located in downtown Dayton, Ohio.

17th Ohio Battery

The battery was organized in Dayton, Ohio and mustered in August 21, 1862 for a three year enlistment under Captain Ambrose A. Blount.

40 West 4th Centre

40 West 4th Centre is a skyscraper located in Dayton, Ohio.

Alija Izetbegović

The parties agreed to meet at Dayton, Ohio to negotiate a peace treaty under the supervision of the United States.

Arthur L. Welsh

The funeral was attended by Orville Wright and his sister Katherine, who had traveled from Dayton, Ohio and who were still in mourning for their brother Wilbur, who had died less than two weeks earlier.

He traveled to Dayton, Ohio, convinced that he could make a positive impression in person.

Bertrand Township, Michigan

The name of the depot was changed to Dayton after the post office was renamed "Dayton" on April 11, 1851, after Dayton, Ohio, where many early settlers had come from.

Bill Armour

Armour began his managerial career with the Dayton, Ohio baseball club, of which he was also the principal owner.

Camp Chase

The camp was closed in 1865, and by September 1867, dismantled buildings, usable items, and 450 patients from Tripler Military Hospital (also in Columbus) were transferred to the National Soldier's Home in Dayton.

Dave Roller

David Euell Roller (born October 28, 1949 in Dayton, Tennessee) is a former American football defensive lineman.

Dayton Demonz

:For the 1968-film, see Dayton's Devils

Dayton Flyers baseball

The Dayton Flyers baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio, USA.

Dayton-Wright Company

A United States Senate committee corroborated these allegations, and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson appointed a commission headed by future Supreme Court of the United States Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes to investigate.

Dayton, Indiana

Shannon Hoon of the band Blind Melon was born and raised in the area around Dayton and is buried in Dayton Cemetery on the east edge of town.

Dayton, Iowa

It began with a pair of local cowboys and has grown to a National Championship Rodeo, sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.

Dayton, Kentucky

John Wooden, basketball coach at Dayton High during the 1932-33 and 1933-34 school years.

Dayton, Maryland

Notable landmarks are the Crossroads Pub famed for their Maryland blue crabs and once owned by the Harp family (Harp's Pub), who also owned Harp's grocery store; the quaint Post Office that oozes Americana; the gas station that was once owned by a man named Lenny, where he used to pump gasoline for automobiles, clean the windshields of cars, and sell vanilla popsicles for 10 cents; and the "Rabbit" which is properly decorated for major holidays.

Dayton, Newark

The stop was built in 2001 to connect NJT's commuter lines and Amtrak's Northeast Corridor services with the AirTrain at Newark Airport.

The area is bounded on the north by Peddie Street (Thomas Baldwin Peddie), on the east by Newark Liberty International Airport, on the south by Elizabeth and on the west by Elizabeth Avenue.

Dayton, Sheridan and Grande Ronde Railroad

The Dayton, Sheridan and Grande Ronde Railroad (DS&GR) was a railroad in Yamhill and Polk counties in the U.S. state of Oregon.

Dayton, Tennessee

In 1877, the town was renamed Dayton, after Dayton, Ohio.

Dayton, Virginia

This was a major institution in Dayton until 1960, when it moved to Winchester.

Dayton's Devils

Frank Dayton (Leslie Nielsen) leads a group of crooks in a caper to steal $2,500,000 from an Air Force base.

Destination Sun

Destination: Sun is the fourth album by Dayton, Ohio funk band Sun

Donald Metcalf

His autobiography is Summon up the Blood: In dogged pursuit of the blood cell regulators (AlphaMed Press, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 2000. ISBN 1-880854-28-7.)

Emery Worldwide

On 21 February 2000, DC-8-71F crashed on take-off on a scheduled cargo flight from Sacramento Mather Airport to Dayton, Ohio, with three crew members aboard.

George Koval

Koval was transferred from Oak Ridge to a top-secret lab in Dayton, Ohio on June 27, 1945, where polonium initiators were fabricated.

Gil Whitney

Gil Whitney was an American television personality in Dayton, Ohio, who worked primarily at WHIO Television and Radio until his death in 1982.

Hans Mauch

During a tour by an Army surgeon general in March 1946, the work was brought to the attention of the Americans, who soon arranged for Henschke and Mauch to be brought to Dayton, Ohio to work at the USAAF Aeromedical Laboratory.

Hill Air Force Base

Hill Air Force Base is named in honor of Major Ployer Peter Hill (1894–1935), the Chief of the Flying Branch of the U.S. Army Air Corps Material Division of Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.

Howard P. Whidden

Born in Antigonish Harbour, Nova Scotia, became a Baptist minister in Dayton, Ohio and likely knew John D. Rockefeller and may have been instrumental, along with Cyrus' uncle Charles Aubrey Eaton, in Rockefeller meeting Cyrus S. Eaton.

Hudson's

The Dayton Co. of Minneapolis acquired The J.L. Hudson Co. in 1969 to form the Dayton–Hudson Corporation, although "The J.L. Hudson Co." continued to operate as a semi-autonomous entity.

John Rodgers Meigs

Furious in his belief that Meigs had been murdered, Sheridan ordered the town of Dayton, Virginia, burned to the ground.

Louis James O'Leary

Following his release from hospital in 1929, the Bishop went for a period of rest at his brother's home in Dayton, Ohio.

Makes No Sense at All

The video used both "Makes No Sense At All" and "Love Is All Around" played in sequence; for the "Love is All Around" sequence the video has the band copying iconic scenes from the Minneapolis-based Mary Tyler Moore Show opening credit sequence such as leaving Dayton's and riding the escalator and eating at the IDS Center.

MeadWestvaco

MeadWestvaco was formed in January 2002 as the result of a merger between The Mead Corporation of Dayton, Ohio, and Westvaco (originally the Piedmont Pulp and Paper Company and then The West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company).

Melvin Lorrel Nichols

Nichols was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Joseph Wiseman Nichols, a cabinetmaker, and Sarah Rebecca Heidelbaugh.

Métis of Maine

The Maine Eastern Tribal Indian Society (MÉTIS), often referred to as The Métis of Maine is a cultural and educational organization based in Dayton, Maine.

MIMIC

MIMIC, known in capitalized form only, is a former simulation computer language developed 1964 by H. E. Petersen, F. J. Sansom and L. M. Warshawsky of Systems Engineering Group within the Air Force Materiel Command at the Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, USA.

Ohio Legislative Black Caucus

The Ohio Legislative Black Caucus was founded in 1967 by African American state legislators under the leadership of State Representative C.J. McLin of Dayton, Ohio (Deceased)

PBA Bowling Tour: 1959 Season

After a layoff of several months, the PBA tour held its final event of the season at Bar-Jan Bowl in Dayton, Ohio.

Robert F. Travis

In July 1932 he entered the Air Corps Engineering School at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, and completed the course in July 1933.

Rod Price

A DVD entitled Two Centuries Of Boogie, recorded at a 1996 concert in Dayton, Ohio gives a close-up and first-hand view of Price's guitar abilities.

Solo Trans

It was recorded at the Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio on September 18, 1983 during Young's Solo Trans tour.

Susan Narvaiz

Narvaiz, a native of Dayton, Ohio, raised in San Antonio, Texas moved to San Marcos in 1995 to open a branch office for a national staffing company.

Tal Henry

He left Maysville in 1914 to attend Shenandoah Conservatory of Music located in Dayton, Virginia.

Tongue River Cave

Tongue River Cave is a cave in the Bighorn National Forest just west of Dayton, Wyoming.

Vincent G. Apple

He was the founder of the Franklin Electric Company, Apple Dayton Electric and Manufacturing Company and The Vincent G. Apple Laboratories at Dayton, all based in Dayton, Ohio.


Anthony W. England

As the second amateur radio operator to operate from space, England and fellow astronaut Owen K. Garriott were honored with a Special Achievement Award from the Dayton Hamvention in 2002.

Arthur L. Welsh

Called back to Dayton, he was asked to help establish the company's flight school at Huffman Prairie.

Brett Salisbury

Brett Jon Salisbury (born October 11, 1968 in Dayton, Ohio) is a former college football quarterback at University of Oregon, BYU, and Wayne State College.

Central Pacific 173

Three of these were sold to other roads, among which was Virginia and Truckee Railroad's "Dayton," which is the only preserved example of 173's design.

County roads in Hennepin County, Minnesota

County Road 144 begins at County 12 in Dayton and follows North Diamond Lake Road and 141st Avenue North through Rogers before ending at Territorial Road (County 116) in Hassan Township.

Dana Summers

He began his career as an editorial cartoonist, first as a freelancer, then with The Fayetteville (North Carolina) Times, and then with the Dayton (Ohio) Journal Herald (now the Dayton Daily News).

Danny the Street

In the pages of Teen Titans, during the One Year Later time-shift event in the DC Universe, a portal to Danny was seen in Dayton Manor; Crazy Jane was also seen through the portal.

David Esrati

Esrati first sought a nomination in the Dayton Mayoral race of 1993, which Mike Turner, his prospective congressional opponent in 2010, won over Clay Dixon.

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio, United States that commemorates three exceptional men—Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, and Paul Laurence Dunbar—and their work in the Miami Valley.

Don R. Berlin

With his introduction to aeronautics in conducting early wind tunnel tests for the U.S. Army Air Corps at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, subsequently, starting in 1926, Berlin worked for Douglas Aircraft Company as project engineer and chief draftsman.

Engineers Club of Dayton

The Engineers Club of Dayton was founded by Colonel Edward A. Deeds and Charles F. Kettering in Dayton, Ohio in 1914.

Fate to Fatal

It was recorded in three different locations by multiple engineers; the title track was recorded at The Fortress Studios, London with producer Gareth Parton (The Go! Team, Foals); "The Last Time", which features lead vocals by Mark Lanegan, and "Pinnacle Hollow" were recorded by Ben Mumphrey in Dayton, OH; "Chances Are", a cover of a Bob Marley song, was recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago.

Flush toilet

1924-1927: Philip Haas of Dayton, Ohio, designed and improved a water closet flushing and recycling mechanism similar to those in use today, incorporated in US Patents 1,576,600, 1,601,210, 1,605,939, 1,623,109, 1,629,914, 1,638,395, 1,639,997, 1,660,922.

Gallery East

In June, Dark Week, which was described as a “boho free-for-all,” featured alt-culture performances such as 24 bands lip syncing their own music, including performances by The Dark, Young Snakes, Red, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, and Peter Dayton, as well as "The Wonderful World of Jesus" and The Dark's "89 Systems".

Hanoi Taxi

At 9:30 AM on Saturday, 6 May 2006, the Hanoi Taxi touched down for the last time and was received in a formal retirement ceremony at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, located at Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) Area B in Riverside, Ohio near Dayton, Ohio.

John Barlow Hudson

Hudson has three degrees, finished in the California Institute Fine Arts, Valencia, CA in 1972 and 1972, and there is nother one institute, he learned at Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH.

Julius Brewster Cotton

While in Dayton, Ohio, Julius was a freelance journalist for the Dayton Weekly News as well as the Dayton Daily News as well as performing and traveling with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company.

Lockheed Model 8 Sirius

The aircraft was in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City until 1955, when ownership of it was transferred to the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.

National Aviation Heritage Area

Major features of the Heritage Area include the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Grimes Field, and the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum, as well as the Wright Cycle Company, Huffman Prairie Flying Field, Hawthorn Hill and Paul Laurence Dunbar State Memorial units of Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park.

Oregon Historic District

In 1974, Oregon was registered on the National Register of Historic Places, between Patterson Blvd. and Wayne Ave., north to Gates St. and south to U.S. Route 35, and Downtown Dayton (No. 75001506).

Robert Neil Cavally

He taught flute at the Edgecliff College of Xavier University (Cincinnati) and had a studio in Dayton, Ohio.

Silk Stockings

Other characters include Peter Boroff, Russia's greatest composer, who is being wooed by Janice Dayton, America's swimming sweetheart, to write the score for her first non-aquatic picture, a musical adaptation of War and Peace.

Speedwell Motor Car Company

The company's factory rented space for the Wright Company to build its airplanes from February to November 1910 while the Wright Company built its own factory building in west Dayton.

Ted Mondale

Coincidentally, the race included three other candidates from families famously connected in Minnesota politics: Skip Humphrey, the son of former Vice President Hubert Humphrey (then Attorney General); Mark Dayton of the Dayton Department Store dynasty (then State Auditor); and Mike Freeman, son of former governor Orville Freeman (then Hennepin County, Minnesota district attorney).

The Philly Kid

The film's production staff included about ten department heads with ties to the Wright State University film program or Dayton, Ohio.

They Killed Sister Dorothy

The film traces the reasons of the murder of Dayton, Ohio, native Dorothy Mae Stang, a 73-year-old nun of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur order who fought for the preservation of the Amazon Rainforest in the Brazilian state of Pará.

Thomas D. Milling

Milling reported to the 15th Cavalry at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in September 1909 but his tour of duty was cut short when War Department Special Order 95, dated April 21, 1911, assigned Milling and 2d Lt. Henry H. Arnold to "aeronautical duty with the Signal Corps," and instructed them to "proceed to Dayton, Ohio, for the purpose of undergoing a course of instruction in operating the Wright airplane."

Tré Melvin

The funds contributed to the construction of the Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center located in Dayton.

Union Theological Seminary

United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, affiliated with the United Methodist Church

WFMG

However, this may change as another pending frequency move -- WKSW Urbana into the Dayton metro -- may have further impact on the station's reception to the east of Richmond if approved.

WLMO-LP

The company initially refused to carry the station on its Lima system due to the presence of two other CBS affiliates, WHIO-TV from Dayton and WBNS-TV in Columbus.

WLWD

WDTN channel 2, a television station in Dayton, Ohio, United States that previously held the WLWD callsign