One of Dayton’s oldest taverns is still standing on Grove Avenue in North Dayton. More than a hundred years ago, it was built on an old mud road. When the city made the street, it was necessary to cut down the grade about four feet below the...
The Newcom Tavern as it looked covered with weatherboards. The logs used in the construction of the cabin were cut on Samuel Rohrer’s Farm, two miles out on Brandt Pike. During the war of 1812, the cabin became a recruiting station. Mr. Shafer...
The First Lutheran Church was erected in 1841. The lot was purchased at the southwest corner of Fourth and Jefferson Streets for $1,025. The first services were held on January 10, 1842. The second story was not completed until 1845 at a cost of...
The picture shows a portion of the old corduroy road at Third and Main Streets. It was constructed of walnut logs in 1804 to fill a 15-foot deep gully in the middle of Main Street and continued to Brown Street. The logs were cut in the woods in...
The top picture shows the Old Patterson Grist Mill. Colonel Robert Patterson built it in 1816. It stood a couple hundred feet west of the corner of Brown and Caldwell Streets. The Tates Mill is the bottom picture. It stood near the corner of...
The Cooper Female Academy was founded in 1844 to provide a school for daughters. The trustees, S. Forrer, D. Phillips, R. W. Steele, R. C. Schenck, and R. Green, donated a tract on First Street between Perry and Wilkinson Streets to the academy. ...
The first African American church in Dayton was built on the corner of Plum and McLane Streets in 1840. Bishop Quinn dedicated this church. Reverend Bird was the first pastor.
Thomas Clegg on First and Jefferson Streets erected Dr. J. A. Walters’ home in 1832. It was the first brick house built in Dayton with a stone front. It was still standing as of 1935 [still standing, 2002].
The Patterson farm was situated between Main and Brown Streets and extended from about Stewart Street to Far Hills Avenue. The National Cash Register Company occupies the north end of the farm. The house on the left is the original home built by...
Dwellings--Ohio--Dayton; Patterson, John Henry, 1844-1923
The picnic canal boat “Shamrock” was owned by William Wolf. This picture shows Steele High School students on a picnic, taking a trip up the canal, in 1898. They were bound for a nine-mile aqueduct near Taylorsville.
Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Manners and Customs; Steele High School (Dayton, Ohio)
Clegg’s Hall on Third Street opposite the Beckel Hotel was erected as an opera house in 1852. After the place ceased to be a theater, portions of the building were used as the superior court pending the completion of the new Court House. ...
Grimes’ Tavern stood on the present site of Loew’s Dayton Theater. It was built sometime before the war of 1812. In 1863, the First Baptist Church bought the building and moved it to the foot of First Street. Then they erected their second...
