Dayton, Ohio, USA
1916

Dayton, a city, capital of Montgomery co., Ohio, is situated on the left or E. bank of the Great Miami, at the mouth of the Mad River and on the line of the Miami and Erie Canal, 60 miles NNE. of Cincinnati. It is on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, the Erie and other railroads. Lat. 39° 44'N. ; Lon. 84° 11' W. The city is attractively laid out and contains a number of fine public and other buildings, among which are the county court house, state hospital, public library (with about 50,000 volumes), insane asylum, and jail. Quarries of excellent limestone are worked in the vicinity and furnish material for the finest buildings of Cincinnati. The abundant water- power which Dayton possesses through its hydraulic canal, by which the water of the Mad River is brought through the city, is one of the elements of its prosperity. It is the seat of extensive industrial establishments, embracing manufactories of railroad-cars and cash-registers (two of the most important industries of the city), agricultural implements, carriages and wagons, foundry-products and machinery, architectural iron-work, paper, stoves, hollow-ware, cottons, woollens, linseed-oil, etc. Dayton was first settled in 1796 and was incorporated in 1805. In 1829 the Miami Canal was opened from Cincinnati to this point, from which event the prosperity of Dayton may be dated. Two miles from the city is a National Soldiers' Home. Pop. in 1870, 30,473 ; in 1880, 38,678; in 1890, 61,220; in 1900, 85,333.

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