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Lot No. 173. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 27, 1814. Commrs. to Wm. Clark, June 7, 1814. It was then sold off in small parcels.
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Lot No. 174. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 27, 1814. W. 1/2, Commrs. to Wm. Clark, June 7, 1814. Same, ex. 33 ft. on alley x 491/2 in N. W. C., Wm. Clark to A. Saum, Feb. 20, 1815. Same, A. Saum to Jno. Fox, May 27, 1828. 33 ft. on alley x 4912 in N. W. C., Wm. Clark to Wm. Owens, Feb. 23. 1815. Same, Wm. Owens to Jno. Walton, July 20, 1819. Same, Jno. Walton to Wm. Roth, Apl. 2, 1824. E. 1/2, Commrs. to Thos. Cottom, Nov. 4, 1818. Thos. Cot- tom to Lewis Cottom, Sept. 1, 1828.
Lot No. 175. D. C. Cooper to Ira Smith, Mch. 30, 1813. Ira Smith to David Squire, Sept. 21, 1813. D. Squire to Smith Lane, Jan. 6, 1814. S. Lane to O. B. Conover, Sept. 19, 1814. O. B. Conover to Wm. G. George, June 21, 1817. Wm. G. George to Augustus George, Jan. 10, 1818. A. George to Wm. George, Apl. 28, 1826.
Lot No. 176. D. C. Cooper to Thos. Morrison, June 2, 1814. 94 ft. on N. end, Thos. Morrison to Jno. Landaman, Dec. 7, 1816. Same, Jno. Landaman to Robt. Strain, Mch. 16, 1818. 3 ft. 7 in. on Ludlow, 94 ft. S. of N. end, Thos. Morrison to Robt. Strain, May 21, 1818. 97 ft. 7 in. on N. end, Robt. Strain to Smith & Eaker, July 19, 1818. Same, Smith & Eaker to Thos. Morrison, Jany. 29, 1825.
Lot No. 177. D. C. Cooper to Jno. Scott, Feb. 3, 1813. Jno. Scott to Benj. Scott, Dec. 19, 1815. W. 1/2, B. Scott to A. & J. Barnett, Jan. 2, 1816. They held until 1822. E. 12, B. Scott to Steele & Pierce, Aug. 3, 1818. They held until 1826.
Lot No. 178. D. C. Cooper to Jno. Scott, Feb. 3, 1813. Jno. Scott to Benj. Scott, Dec. 19, 1815. E. 12, B. Scott to Steele & Pierce, July 26, 1816. They held until 1826. W. 12, B. Scott to Steele & Pierce, Aug. 3, 1818. Same, Jas. Steele to Jno. Kline, July 27, 1838.
Lot No. 179. Held by I. Spinning, one of D. C. Cooper's assignees, until after 1820.
Lot No. 180. N. 12, D. C. Cooper to Steele & Pierce, Feby. 16, 1813. They held it until 1853. S. 1/2, D. C. Cooper to Elliott & Henderson, Feby. 23, 1813. They held it until after 1820.
Lot No. 181. D. C. Cooper to Jno. Regans, Jany. 25, 1813. 30 ft. on S. side, Jno. Regans to Wm. Tyler, May 10, 1816. He held it until June, 1825. Regans held the balance.
Lot No. 182. D. C. Cooper to Jno. Strain, Mch. 1, 1813. This was then sold in small parcels to various purchasers.
Lot No. 183. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 27, 1814. Commrs. to Jas. Glasglow, July 3, 1815. 20 ft. W. side, tax sale to Jno. Regans, Apl. 20, 1812. Same, Jno. Regans to Jas. Glasglow, July 3, 1815. Whole, Jas. Glasglow to O. B. Conover, Feby. 11, 1820.
Lot No. 184. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 27, 1814. Commrs. to Saml. Wood's heirs, Mch. 4, 1816. And, 14, Jas. Wood, heir of S. W., to Warren Mun- ger, Feb. 12, 1816. Same, Warren Munger to Abijah O'Neal, Aug. 15, 1817. He held it on while Wood's heirs held the other 3/4.
Lot No. 185. D. C. Cooper to James Thompson, June 16, 1813. Thompson's heirs held it on.
Lot No. 186. W. 1/2, D. C. Cooper to Samuel Miller, Feb. 20, 1817. Saml. Miller held it until Dec., 1822. Mrs. Cooper held other 1/2.
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Lot No. 187. D. C. Cooper to Peter Rouzer, June 25. 1814. W. 1/2, Peter Rouzer to Abraham Saum, Feby. 1, 1815. Same, Abraham Saum to Jacob Lick- lider, June 23, 1828. E. 1/2, Peter Rouzer to D. Lehman, June 16, 1815. Same, D. Lehman to David Humphreyville, May 20, 1817. Same, D. Humphreyville to Robt. Edgar, June 26, 1821.
Lot No. 188. D. C. Cooper to Peter Rouzer, June 25, 1814. E. 1/2, Peter Rouzer to Jno. Miller, Oct. 26, 1816. Same, Jno. Miller to Jno. Shuttle, July 18, 1823. W. 12, Peter Rouzer to Jno. Shuttle, Oct. 26, 1816. He held it on.
Lots Nos. 189 to 196, inclusive, were not numbered in the plat. They formed an out-lot which was divided and sold subsequent to 1820.
Lot No. 197. Held in Cooper estate until after 1820.
Lot No. 198. D. C. Cooper to Wm. Van Cleve, Apl. 2, 1813. W. 1/2, Wm. Van Cleve to Catharine A. Johnston, Nov. 24, 1814. She held it, 1836. E. 1/2, Wm. Van Cleve to Catharine A. Johnston, Aug. 15, 1814. Same, Catharine A. John- ston to Betty Shaw, Feby. 22, 1815. Same, Betty McQueen to Saml. and Martin Future, Sept. 3, 1823.
Lot No. 199. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 27, 1814. W. 2/3, Commrs. to Aaron Baker, Dec. 5, 1814. Same, Aaron Baker to Jno. Landamann, Dec. 6, 1814. W. 1/2, Jno. Landamann to Robt. Steele, Dec. 7, 1814. He held it on. E. 1/3, Commrs. to Saml. Newcom, Dec. 5, 1814. Same, S. Newcom to Jas. Watts, July 7, 1819. He held it until 1823. Middle 1/3, Jno. Landamann to D. P. John, Dec. 30, 1816. He held it on.
Lot No. 200. D. C. Cooper to Jas. Thompson, Feby. 4, 1813. N. 1/2, Jas. Thompson to David Humphreyville, May 20, 1817. Same, D. Humphreyville to Simon Broadwell, July 6, 1822. S. 12, Jas. Thompson to D. & W. Griffin, Apl. 4, 1818. They held it to May, 1824.
Lot No. 201. D. C. Cooper to Ephraim Arnold, Feb. 4, 1813. Ephraim Ar- nold to Peter Weaver, Dec. 17, 1814. 93 ft. on N. end and 25 ft. square in S. W. cor., Peter Weaver to Robt. Strain, Sr., Dec. 22, 1815. Same, Robt. Strain, Sr., to Miller & Huddleston, Oct. 7, 1817. They held it on to 1820. 105 on Jeff. S. end, ex. 25 ft. sq. in S. W. C., Peter Weaver to T. Morrison, Sept. 11, 1815. He held . it, 1820.
Lot No. 202. D. C. Cooper to Henry Brown, Nov. 26, 1813. He held it until Dec. 8, 1835.
Lot No. 203. D. C. Cooper to Steele & Pierce, Feb. 16, 1813. He held it in -. tact until Oct. 9, 1834.
Lot No. 204. D. C. Cooper to Steele & Pierce, Feby. 16, 1813. Steele & Pierce heirs to Jas. Slaght, Oct. 16, 1816. Jas. Slaght to Jos. S. Schaeffer, Mch. 9, 1839.
Lot No. 205. D. C. Cooper to Wm. Calhoun, Feb. 3, 1813. Wm, Calhoun to Jno. T. Jones, July 23, 1828.
Lot No. 206. D. C. Cooper to Andrew Parke, Jany. 29, 1813. Andrew Parke to Robt. Strain, Mch. 21, 1814. N. 12 and 12 ft. on W. end S. 12, Robt. Strain to Wm. King, Nov. 16, 1814. He held it on. S. 12, ex. 12 ft. on W. end, Robt. Strain to Wm. Porter, June 27, 1816. Same, Wm. Porter to Geo. W. Smith, Sept. 17, 1822.
Lot No. 207. E. 1/2, D. C. Cooper to Elizabeth Brown, Feby. 4, 1820. W. 1/2, D. C. Cooper to Levi Wollaston, Dec. 22, 1817. He held it on.
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Lot No. 208. D. C. Cooper to Wm. Madden, Apl. 2, 1813. 8 ft. on E. side, tax sale to James Barnett, May 20, 1817. It stood thus until January, 1827.
Lot No. 209. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 27, 1814. Commrs. to Jno. Miller, Aug. 10, 1814. Jno. Miller to Daniel Ashton, June 10, 1828.
Lot No. 210. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 27, 1814. Commrs. to Jno. Mil- ler, Aug. 10, 1814. Jno. Miller to Peter Lehman, Apl. 10, 1828.
Lot No. 211. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 27, 1814. Commrs. to Jno. Dod- son, June 8, 1814. E. 12, Jno. Dodson to John Miller, Apl. 7, 1815. Miller held it on and Dodson held W. 1/2.
Lot No. 212. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 27, 1814. Commrs. to Jno. Dodson, June 8, 1814. Held by him until after 1820, when it was sub-platted.
Lots Nos. 213 to 220, inclusive, were not numbered in revised plat, but formed an out which was platted after 1820, forming Pierson's plat, W. of Wilkinson.
Lot No. 221. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 26, 1814. Commrs. to O. B. Conover, Apl 22, 1818. He held it on.
Lot No. 222. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 26, 1814. Jas. Nolan to Jas. Rid- dle, May 22, 1819. He held it on.
Lot No. 223. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 26, 1814. Jas. Nolan to Wil- liam Rayburn, Mch. 20, 1815. He held it on.
Lot No. 224. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 26, 1814. Commrs. to Dan'1. Miller, June 5, 1815. He held it on.
Lot No. 225. D. C. Cooper to Addison Smith, Apl. 15, 1814. Addison Smith to Moses Simpson, Aug. 26, 1814. Moses Simpson to Aaron Baker, May 18, 1816. E. 12, Aaron Baker to Mary Davis, Feb. 16, 1818. She held it until Jany., 1824. Baker held W. 1/2.
Lot No. 226. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 27, 1814. Commrs. to Lewis Davis, Aug. 16, 1819. He held it on. 612 ft. on W. side, tax sale to Wm. Cal- houn, Jan. 20, 1815.
Lot No. 227. D. C. Cooper to Jas. Wilson, Oct. 27, 1813. Jas. Wilson to Martha McClure, Oct. 10, 1814. She held it on.
Lot No. 228. D. C. Cooper to Simon Phillipson, Dec. 18, 1817. He held it on. Lot No. 229. D. C. Cooper to R. & N. Wilson, Mch. 10, 1813. R. Wilson's interest to N. Wilson, Mch. 28, 1821.
Lot No. 230. D. C. Cooper to R. & N. Wilson, Mch. 10, 1813. R. Wilson's interest to N. Wilson, Mch. 28, 1821.
Lot No. 231. D. C. Cooper to R. & N. Wilson, Mch. 10, 1813. R. Wilson's interest to N. Wilson, Mch. 28, 1821.
Lot No. 232. D. C. Cooper to R. & N. Wilson, Mch. 10, 1813. R. Wilson's interest to N. Wilson, Mch. 28, 1821.
Lot No. 233. Tax sale to Conklin Miller, Apl. 1, 1812. Tax sale to Jas. Thompson, Dec. 15, 1815. Thus it stood until after 1820.
Lot No. 234. D. C. Cooper to Jas. Thompson, June 16, 1813. Jas. Thomp- son to M. & W. Thompson and B. Scott, Apl. 14, 1819. They held it on.
Lot No. 235. Tax sale to Jas. Thompson, Apl. 1, 1813. Tax sale to Jas. Thompson, Dec. 15, 1815. He held it on.
Lot No. 236. D. C. Cooper to Jas. Thompson, June 16, 1813. Jas. Thompson to M. & W. Thompson and B. Scott, Apl. 14, 1819. They held it on.
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Lots Nos. 237 to 248, inclusive, were not numbered in the plat of 1809, but constituted a part of an out-lot, divided after 1820.
Lot No. 249. D. C. Cooper to O. B. Conover, Aug. 17, 1813. 48 ft. N. side, tax sale to Jas. Smith, Jany. 4, 1813. Same, Jas. Smith to O. B. Conover, Oct. 19, 1813. 85 ft. on Jeff., x 99 on N. end, O. B. Conover to Elisha Rittenhouse, Mch. 14, 1818. Same, Elisha Rittenhouse to Andrew Waymire, May 1, 1819. He held it on. 38 ft. on Jeff. 85 S. of N. end, O. B. Conover to Isaac Conover, June 19, 1817. Same, Isaac Conover to Eliza S. Smith, Mch. 20, 1820. 75 ft. on Jeff. x 99 on S. end, O. B. Conover to D. Alspach, June 18, 1817. Same, D. Alspach to Jno. Rock, Jan. 9, 1819. He held it on.
Lot No. 250. Was in Cooper estate until Aug. 30, 1821.
Lot No. 251. D. C. Cooper to Jas. Hannah, Jany. 25, 1813. He held it May 15, 1821.
Lot No. 252. D. C. Cooper to Jas. Hannah, Jany. 25, 1813. S. 1/2, Jas. Han- nah to D. Squire, Apl. 25, 1813. He held it on. N. 12, Jas. Hannah to Thos. Hannah, May 15, 1821.
Lot No. 253. D. C. Cooper to Simon Phillipson, Dec. 18, 1817. He held it on.
Lot No. 254. D. C. Cooper to Mary Davis, Aug. 17, 1814. 48 ft. on N side, tax sale to Jas. Smith, Jany. 4, 1813. It remained thus until Jany. 24, 1821.
Lot No. 255. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 27, 1814. E. 1/2, Commrs. to John Baker, July 26, 1820. W. 1/2, Commrs. to Lewis Davis, July 24, 1820.
Lot No. 256. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 27, 1814. Commrs. to Lewis Davis, July 24, 1820.
Lot No. 257. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 27, 1814. Commrs. to Wm. Eake, June 10, 1841.
Lots Nos. 258 to 271, inclusive, were not numbered on the plat, but formed part of an out-lot.
Lot No. 272. D. C. Cooper to Smith & Eaker, Oct. 31, 1816. They held it on.
Lot No. 273. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 27, 1814. Commrs. to Wm. Bomberger, June 8, 1814. S. 1/2, Wm. Bomberger to Augustus George, Jan. 30, 1818. Same, Augustus George to Peter W. Graham, Mch. 29, 1819. He held it on. Bomberger held N. 1/2.
Lot No. 274. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 27, 1814. Commrs. to Isaac Kemp, Aug. 4, 1814. Isaac Kemp to Wm. Tyler, Feb. 26, 1819. Wm Tyler to G. & J. L. Crane, June 29, 1825.
Lot No. 275. D. C. Cooper to Abijah O'Neal, Feb. 18, 1815. 8 ft. on S. side, tax sale to Jno. Regans, June 13, 1815. Same, Jno. Regans to Abijah O'Neal, May 7, 1816. 6 ft. on S. side, tax sale to Wm. Tyler, Mch. 18. 1816. Same, Wm. Tyler to Abijah O'Neal, Aug. 15, 1817. Whole, Abijah O'Neal to Warren Mun- ger, Aug. 14, 1817. He held it on.
Lot No. 276. D. C. Cooper to Commrs., Apl. 27, 1814. 6 ft. on N. side, tax sale to Jno. Regans, June 13, 1815. Same, Commrs. to Jos. Evans, Dec. 5, 1814. Same, Jno. Regans to Jas. Evans, May 17, 1816. Same, tax sale to Wm. Tyler, Mch. 18, 1816. Same, Wm. Tyler to Abijah O'Neal, Aug. 15, 1817. Whole, Commrs. to Abijah O'Neal, June 6, 1826.
Lot No. 277. D. C. Cooper to Jacob Worman, Apl. 1, 1813. Jacob Worman to David Worman, June 7, 1814. David Worman to Joshua Boucher, June 16, 1837.
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Lot No. 278. D. C. Cooper to Mont. Co., Apl. 27, 1814. Mont. Co. to Edgar & Bradford, June 5, 1816. N. 1/2 and 30 ft. on E. end S. 12, Jno. Bradford, Jr. to Robt. Edgar, Jan. 20, 1818. Same, Robt. Edgar to Augustus George, Apl. I, 1818. Same, Augustus George to Wm. G. George, Apl. 28, 1826. Robt. Edgar held the balance (4912 on Main, by 168) until after 1820.
Lot No. 279. D. C. Cooper to Mont. Co., Apl. 27, 1814. They held it until May 21, 1817, and then sold it off in small parcels.
Lot No. 280. D. C. Cooper to Mont. Co., Apl. 27, 1814. Mont. Co. held it until May 21, 1817, and then parceled it out.
Lots Nos. 281 to 312, inclusive, were not numbered in plat as revised, but con- stituted out-lots and parts of out-lots which were divided and took their numbers subsequent to 1820.
Lot No. 313. D. C. Cooper to Henry Brown, Dec. 2, 1813. He held it after 1820.
Lots Nos. 314, 315, 316. D. C. Cooper to Henry Marquart, Jan. 25, 1813. He held after 1820.
Lot No. 317. D. C. Cooper to Jas. Welsh, Nov. 25, 1813. Jas. Welsh to Henry Marquart, Mch. 28, 1825.
Lot No. 318. Not conveyed until after 1820.
Lot No. 319. Not conveyed until after 1820.
Lot No. 320. D. C. Cooper to Henry Brown, Dec. 2, 1813. He held it on.
Lot No. 321. Held by Letitia C. Cooper until after 1820.
. From 1796 to 1808, inclusive, many of these lots had changed hands, and generally at a very low figure; the price for some had been as little as fourteen cents, but very few of them had any value or advantage over the farming lands around, and it was not thought that lots located south of Second street could ever be desirable to hold for an advance in price. But from the time the plat of 1809 was adopted improvements and changes began. D. C. Cooper entered nearly all of the original town plat in his own name, either directly for himself or by ar- rangement with others whereby he was to make title to them when he received a full title from the United States. Some kept their claims in their own hands and dealt directly with the government. Some who were to receive their title through Cooper became afraid that he would be unable to make a title and so obtained an assignment from him and received their patents from the government. Cooper's right to hold certain lots for himself was based on a contract with Israel Ludlow on the 13th of December, 1803. The lots were those numbered 1, 2, 12, 53, 61, 65, 66 and some land between Water street and Mad river. This contract covered his donation lot and doubtless other donation lots that had been transferred to him.
Later, when additions to the town were platted, whether within the limits of the corporation or beyond, the plat was named and lots were numbered beginning with No. I. January 7, 1842, steps were taken by the city council to revise and make continuous the numbers of lots. February 28, 1848, an act was passed by the legislature authorizing a revision of the lot numbers, and in the published volume of ordinances of that year, the revised numbers are given. For the plat of 1809 the numbers remain the same. The numbers dis-
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carded in 1803 and 1809 were used for the same or different lots and other num- bers were added, making for out-lots and in-lots a total of 2,628.
THE TOWN SITE.
As indicated in another chapter the line for the town corporation extended at the first from the section line crossing the south part of the fair grounds two miles to the section line north of the mouth of Mad river and from the Miami river a mile and a half east to the half-section line. Within these limits there were a number of small prairies. The prairie west of Wilkinson street was readily turned into a great cornfield, the settlers parceling out the ground to suit themselves. East of Mill street, there was some good timber -- hickory, walnut and oak. In the south part there was also some good timber. A considerable part of the land was described as barrens, by which term was meant land with sparse or low growths. The surveyors describing a line run by them across the town site in 1802, speak of the land as "dry, poor barrens covered by hazel, green briars, grape vines and plum brush, not any line timber." They speak also of "blackberry vines" and the "swift current" of Mad river.
A deep ravine ran south from the head of Mill street, being joined by a similar ravine running from the head of Jefferson street across where Cooper Park now is. A gully five or six feet deep extended from the corner of First and Wilkinson streets, where there was a good spring, by the corner of Main and Third streets, joining the ravine from Mill street. The continuation of the ravine was by the corner of Fifth and Brown streets in a round- about way to the Miami river at the foot of Ludlow street. There were exten- sive ponds from South Main street on to the river and at the head of Mill street. Where Perry street now is was the second bank of the river. The diffi- . culties that the town site presented were in the removal of timber and brush, the draining of ponds and the pushing back of the waters of the rivers by levees.
The almost circular enlargement of the river valleys at Dayton surrounded by a succession of higher levels gives to the site of the city the character of an amphitheater. The further extension of the city over the surrounding heights will develop more fully the beauty and advantage of this natural situation.
ANNEXATIONS.
With the exception that the Miami river on the western border of the city was included in 1841, when the new charter was obtained, the limits of the corporation remained as at the first till June 12, 1868, when there was a general annexation of territory, including new territory north of Mad river, large additions on the east and northeast and the promising beginnings of River- dale, Dayton View, West Dayton, and Edgemont. The city bought the turn- pikes included within this extension. The lots included were renumbered in accordance with the plan already adopted. In 1872, fifteen unnamed streets in the new territory were given names and the names of about forty others including some within the old limits were changed, many of them because of a
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duplication of names, or because parts of the same street had been called by different names. In December, 1887, there was an addition of one lot lying on the east side of Findlay street between Third and May streets. In February, 1888, there was an addition to Riverdale on the north of about eight acres. In August, 1889, there was an addition on the east near the Davis Sewing Machine Works, consisting of about seven acres. January 30, 1891, there was the second general annexation of territory. North Dayton, Riverdale and Day- ton View received considerable accessions. West Dayton was extended from Western avenue beyond Marion street. Edgemont was extended from Albany and Concord streets to Bolender avenue. East Dayton received a considerable addition including Mount Anthony. In July, 1892, there was an addition of about seventy-five acres adjoining Riverdale on the north. In May, 1905, there was an addition to Dayton View of about one hundred and fifty-six acres on the west, extending the boundary to the Philadelphia road.
The latest general annexation of territory went into effect September 26, 1909, when territory amounting to two thousand six hundred and eighty-eight acres was added to the area of the city. The water area added was one hun- dred and twenty-eight acres, making the total land area ten thousand and sixty- one acres, the total water area five hundred and six acres, and the total area ten thousand six hundred and thirty-seven acres or about sixteen and one- eighth square miles, more than a five-fold increase in the period beginning with 1868, when the first extension of boundaries occurred. The water area should not be thought of as diluting the stock of the city since it is a valuable asset and pays good dividends. The extension of 1909 included added territory nearly all around the old boundaries, the exception being on the line where the Dayton and Oakwood boundaries join. There were large extensions in North Dayton and in Riverdale and larger in Dayton View, West Dayton and Edge- mont. There were minor extensions in the east and southeast. The number of inhabitants included is estimated at from eight to ten thousand.
It is to be noticed that the extension of the corporation bounds may not be at all in accord with the extension of plats. The latter may be much ahead or much behind the former. As long as persons are allowed to plat as they please beyond the corporation limits, it is a great misfortune that the city bounds do not go ahead of the platting. We may now give some attention to the ex- tension of the city by plats.
Every one is interested in the original central plat with its wide streets crossing at right angles, in its large business houses and manufactories, its beautiful residential districts, and its stately public buildings. Yet, the added districts of the city have a history of their own which has a special interest to many, if not to all.
WEST DAYTON.
The two sections of land constituting the principal part of West Dayton were patented to William King, July 3, 1807. William King was the assignce of James Tatman, John Cox and Abel Crawford, the persons entering the land July 2, 1802. The sections were sections thirty-two and thirty-three, range six, town
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DAYTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY
two. Family tradition declares that Mr. King occupied this land as early as 1800. If so, it must have been as a squatter, as no land west of the Miami could be entered before the first Monday of April, 1801, and as matter of fact little land west of the Miami in the vicinity of Dayton was entered before some time in 1802. It seems probable that while Mr. King was occupying the land, with no legal but perhaps a moral preemption right, others entered the land and that in some way he secured a relinquishment in his favor. Mr. King sold land from time to time so that within the limits of his purchase there was a large number of landholders. It has already been mentioned that Mr. King established a ferry at Fourth street in 1805 or 1806.
The roads leading from Dayton were the lines which the extensions of Dayton in various directions at first followed. West of the river leading from the Sixth street ford there was the road leading on the present line of the Ger- mantown pike. Near the Kuhns' shops, the road divided and a main road led directly west to Eaton. In 1819, after the Bridge street bridge was completed a county road was established from that bridge west and then south across Wolf creek along the line of Williams street to the Germantown and Eaton road. Sometimes this north and south road was called the Germantown and sometimes the Green Castle road. The most important road, however, in build- ing up West Dayton was the Dayton and Western turnpike built in 1840 from the west end of the Third street bridge to a juncture with the Eaton road at the west line of the Soldiers' Home grounds. This was neither a county nor a state road and there are no records as to right of way or width. After various ways of getting to the Eaton road had been proposed, the farmers final'y allowed the Dayton and Western Turnpike Company to place the road where it now is. This road has largely shaped the platting of West Dayton, though in many cases the following of original land surveys has made streets irregular and has caused lots to front streets obliquely. Soon after the establishment of the Dayton and Western turnpike, Wolf creek pike was established where Western avenue now is.
In 1820, some out-lots were platted west of the river. June 5, 1826, "Green Castle" was platted on the Germantown road, for the most part between Broad- way and Summit street. As it was on the line of travel from the west, it grew into a prominent hamlet.
February 24, 1845, the town of Mexico was platted by H. S. Williams on Third street extending east from Williams street a little more than a square. In April of the same year, Henry Van Tuyl and others platted "West Dayton," occupying a territory between Fifth street and Germantown street. Additions to Mexico on the south side of Third street and extending nearly to the railroad were platted in 1853. Broadway was first called Brown street. In 1855, the north side of Third street was platted under the name of an "addition to the town of New Mexico." In May, 1854, George More and Joseph Barnet platted land between the river and other plats, in connection with which, though with- out any express designation, the name Miami City came into use. This name soon came to be used generally for the platted area west of the river. In the time of the war, there was for a time a post-office under the name Miami City on Third street west of Williams. Ells and Osborn and John Kemp added a
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