Due to President Abraham Lincoln’s appeal to Congress following the Civil War (1861-1865) several National Homes for Union veterans were

Former site of a log cabin built in 1803 by David Laughead, a Revolutionary War soldier, great-grandfather of William B.

Several turnpike companies were chartered to build macadamized (compacted broken stone) roads connecting Cincinnati to Dayton. One of these was

Trained by the Wright Brothers at a rate of $1 per hour, Bernard Whelan toured the country as an exhibition

The first church in Moraine was Zion Memorial United Church of Christ established in 1820. The first church was built

A quarter mile south at the inner bend of the Great Miami River was one of the world’s first seaplane

Two of the owners of the Moraine Development Company, Charles Kettering and Colonel Edward Deeds were responsible for rapid changes

When Charles Kettering, Col. Edward Deeds and Orville Wright began the new Dayton Wright Airplane Company on Springboro Pike, streets

As part of the newly formed Moraine Development Company owned by Adam Schantz, Colonel Edward Deeds and Charles Kettering, the