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rally al Osborn .Ledbetter Coat Co. of (ice . . ,CRACKER BARRELHousing Developments Grew, Street Glossary With ThemBy RAY HIGGINS The organization of the first Xenia Chamber of Commerce (on the corpse of the Xenia Business Mens Association) stirred considerable enthusiasm.The late Frank W. Dcdds, a member of the first directorate, was inspired by the new organization to seek to do something about the Roberts estate, which in that year (1919), still cut a wedge of mostly virgin acreage into Xenia’s northeast.Out of this interest grew the Dodds Addition to the c i t yt which embraced the southwest corner of the Roberts land, a site for what became a high school building, the creation of Shawnee Park, the building of a National Guard Armory and of the Field House and a housing development. Eventually the high school was built there* The Chamber called in the nationally-known firm of real estate developers, the Gerth brothers, who promoted the venture, erected a lent on the scene and conducted nightly lot auctions with salesmen in format black tie presenting sets of silverware and other gifts to attract buying crowdsThe accepted area became the Dodds Addition, now lost in memory except for official records, and the plat included street names such as Detroit Blvd., Park Dr., Sheridan, Garfield, Edison Blvd. and Hayes. It was inevitable that C. A. Weaver, who was a moving spirit in the Chamber organization and a retail clothing merchant, had his name perpetuated in one of the streets.Land north of the original development was purchased by Bernard Sutton, a former Xenian then living in Springfield, and he became a leader in a, corporation that developed Shawnee Village, a group of brick duplexes. Thus Sutton Dr. became a main artery through the added development. Lucas was named for a Springfield attorney, Stanley Lucas, and Smith for the then city manager, M.C. (Meb) Smith.Next came a corporation developing an area adjacent to Cox Athletic Field which it named Stadium Hts. and which Included 49 Stratford homes, Built about 20 years ago the developers gave streets in the area original names and additional streets expanding the area also were given names by the builders.When the late James Amlin, an auto franchiser who came here frQm Springfield purchased the Charles Kinsey fruit farm north of the Xenia Golf Club, he laid out a street pattern in which there was an obvious effort to avoid duplications in nomenclature with one exception. This was a plus in view of the. possibility that the subdivision may someday be annexed to the city.Country Club Dr. got its name for an obvious reason but before the section was annexed, and Hargis Hicks, the developer of the Berta rose Subdivision on the west side of N. Detroit St. used variations of family names for his streets al the lime he asked for plat approval.And the developer Layne apparently picked his street names out of the air.Start EarlyELIZABKTHTON. Tenn. (AP) — Members of Carter County’s Watauga Historical Association plan to be ready in 1975 when Americans celebrate the bicentennial of the Revolutionary War. President Ben Allen said Tuesday the group already has a committee working on plans for a pageant on the nearby Watauga settlement’s role in the revolution.
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Daily Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Wed, Feb 12, 1969
Page 2
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Greene C.
OH, USA 08 Feb 2024
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