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Legacy now uses the school building formerly occupied by "Woodrow Wilson High School", the school that was operated by the home. [2] Legacy Ministries International purchased the 253-acre (102 ha) campus in 1998 and Xenia Christian had its first year at legacy campus in the 1999–2000 school year. There is a museum on the campus dedicated to ...
This institution was the predecessor of the Ohio Veterans' Children's Home. In 1870, the State of Ohio assumed control of the home. The Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home was originally located in a rented building in Xenia, Ohio. In 1869, Xenia residents provided the GAR with 150 acres of land to build a permanent facility. [2]
The tornado was on the ground for 9 miles (14 km), and along this path it destroyed numerous buildings and damaged hundreds more. The tornado was the first violent tornado to hit the city since 1974, when an F5 tornado would move along a near-parallel path, devastating Xenia. Safety actions taken by the city of Xenia prior to the event were ...
The front page of The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 4, 1974, reporting on the tornadoes in Xenia, Sayler Park and other sites in the region during the tornado outbreak. One man said it was like the ...
The F5 tornado touched down just before 4:40 p.m. on April 3, 1974 in the southwestern part of Xenia that included the center of town. There were 32 people killed and ...
The Xenia tornado was the deadliest and most powerful of what was later labeled the 1974 Super Outbreak, a series of 148 tornadoes that touched down across 13 states over 24 hours between April 3 ...
Tornado damage in Lorain, Ohio The Xenia, Ohio tornado from the 1974 Super Outbreak. This tornado was rated by Ted Fujita himself as an F6 , but it was retroactively downgraded to F5 [ 1 ] Tornadoes in the state of Ohio are relatively uncommon, with roughly 16 tornadoes touching down every year since 1804, the year with the first recorded event ...
A barn was destroyed at a farm in Xenia, Ohio, on Tuesday, April 3, after severe storms ripped through the area. The area was under a tornado warning on Tuesday, but the National Weather Service ...