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Shawen Acres, also known as the Montgomery County Children's Home, is a historic complex in Dayton, Ohio. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 9, 1991. [2] It was originally designed as an orphans home. Dr. Charles Shawen donated 19 acres (77,000 m 2) to the county March 21, 1926 for "wayward and homeless children."
The city of Dayton is the location of 116 of these properties and districts, including 5 National Historic Landmarks; they are listed separately, while the remaining properties and districts are listed here. A single property, the Miami Valley Golf Course and Clubhouse, is split between Dayton and other parts of the county, and it thus appears ...
Montgomery County Fairgrounds, 1043 S. Main St. 39°44′38″N 84°11′20″W / 39.743889°N 84.188889°W / 39.743889; -84.188889 ( Exposition Hall, Montgomery County Fairgrounds 42
An investigation into Ohio's juvenile detention centers and youth prisons won the prestigious Scripps Howard Journalism Award for Local/Regional Investigative Reporting on Sunday.. The eight-month ...
Montgomery County is in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. At the 2020 census , the population was 537,309, [ 2 ] making it the fifth-most populous county in Ohio. The county seat is Dayton . [ 3 ]
Old Greek Revival county courthouse in Dayton, Ohio, completed 1850. The Montgomery County Historical Society, located in Dayton, Ohio, USA, was designated [by whom?] [when?] as official historian of Montgomery County, Ohio, and of the cultural heritage of Ohio's Miami Valley. In 2005, the Society merged with Dayton's Carillon Historical Park ...
Dayton is located within Ohio's Miami Valley region, 50 miles (80 km) north of Cincinnati and 60 miles (97 km) west of Columbus. It is the county seat of Montgomery County. Dayton was founded in 1796 along the Great Miami River and named after Jonathan Dayton, a Founding Father who owned a significant amount of land in the area. [8]
A suburb of Dayton, Washington Township is the largest of nine townships of Montgomery County, Ohio, United States.The population was 61,882 at the 2020 census. [3]The township, through the independent Centerville-Washington Park District, contains eight community parks, nine nature parks and 33 neighborhood parks encompassing 1,000 acres in Centerville and Washington Township.