Posted March 16, 200619 yr Took advantage of the sunshine today and did a whirlwind tour of some of the towns in Greene County (east of Dayton, for those who don't know). Below is pretty much every town of significance except Beavercreek (nothing worth photographing!) and Xenia (I've already done it). Nothing in-depth, but perhaps interesting nonetheless. I suppose I should have stopped for a photo of Clifton Mill, too. To begin, here is Fairborn (population around 32,000). Fairborn is actually a pretty large suburb of Dayton, but most of it isn't exactly pretty, so I just did the downtown for now. Fairborn's downtown is essentially what used to be the town of Fairfield, which merged with Osborn to form Fairborn. (The story on that is I'm sure interesting, what with the moving of Osborn, and it's probably not hard to find if you want to read about it.) Fairborn is mostly known as the city adjacent to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, making it the local community most closely tied to the base. It's also the home of Wright State University. Here's downtown: Nearby houses One of four thousand Foy's stores in downtown Fairborn. I suppose Foy's is another thing Fairborn is best known for locally. I assume this is the original Foy's. Fairborn skyline. :lol: Scary! On down the road is Yellow Springs (population around 3,700). Now, we've all seen Yellow Springs plenty of times here from various posters, but in case anyone somehow doesn't already know, Yellow Springs is the liberal hippie town that is home to Antioch College. And look, it's Yellow Springs' most famous current resident walking under a marquee advertising his own movie! Yup, it's Dave Chappelle himself, as seen in this crop of the previous photo. Sorry I don't have good pictures of him, but I didn't want to be an obnoxious stalker fan or anything. Look, children love Dave Chappelle! Okay, on to the other scenes. Presumably an old rail thing (or just something made to look like it) along the bike path. At Antioch Up next is Cedarville (population 4,000), home to Cedarville University, an ultra-conservative Christian University. (By the way, you might notice that colleges in Greene County fall on all parts of the spectrum: we have the nondescript state school, the ultra-liberal school, the ultra-conservative school, and the historically black schools.) Cedarville is also where Sen. Mike DeWine comes from. This is whatever little river runs through Cedarville. The Man imposing his rules That kid up there is in so much trouble (re: previous picture) But it's not all oppression in Cedarville. They do have the inter-web! Following Ohio 72 south brings you to Jamestown, population about 1,900. Not much to say about Jamestown, really. IMO its downtown looks nicer than Cedarville's, but I don't know if these photos give that same impression or not. The woman who is the pastor at this church was walking down the street and inquired about what I was taking pictures of. She mentioned that the church is celebrating its 200th anniversary (although not the building, which was built in 1875). Seen better days Where Socrates eats lunch. Wall! High school, I think Last is Bellbrook, population 7,000-ish. Today Bellbrook is very much a suburb of Dayton, but it still has an interesting downtown. What I find most interesting is that its downtown is separate from most of the rest of the modern city, which is probably more ties to a place like Centerville. Downtown Bellbrook still looks like a tiny rural village. Come in and drink freely of the water A nice little park So long from the real Greene County! (Not this Greene County.)
March 16, 200619 yr I prefer The Greene, myself. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 16, 200619 yr what can I say? - quaint. I have never heard of Jamestown, but I's got to get me a slice from Ha Ha Pizza in Antioch. Thanks for that fantastic tour! I hope all those little towns can "hang with 'em"
March 16, 200619 yr Sweet. Thanks for the Fairborn shots, especially. It's easy to forget that they actually have a downtown. I used to go to Foy's as a kid. I had family that lived within walking distance.
February 6, 200817 yr *Bump* It's a small town extravaganza! And they're all cute. Take that, Alvordton and Metamora (neat names though).
February 6, 200817 yr ^UrbanWisconsin.com I had forgotten all about this thread. I'm going to have to check out Jamestown.
February 6, 200817 yr These small towns are fascinating! I plan on biking up to Yellow Springs this summer.
February 6, 200817 yr Whatever happend to Pigboy? He was slaughtered but carries on in the form of delicious bacon. No, I'm still here, mostly just skimming the forum and rarely posting, but still visiting every day. I've just become too distracted by other things to keep up anymore, especially not being in Ohio these days. Hey, thanks for the bump, Columbusite! Now I just need to fill this in with the county's remaining big cities (apart from Xenia and Beavercreek): Spring Valley, part of Clifton, and Bowersville. They have a combined population over of 1000!
February 7, 200817 yr I have a feeling you didn't cover those yet for a reason, except for Clifton which has that mill (or is that it?).
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