Let's go and visit Middletown, Ohio. Buckeye (aptly named and from the STCC) lives, there.
The photos are: 1) the Broad Street Bash, 2) Donham Plaza, 3) Central Avenue, and 4) a balloon festival that is held in or near Middletown.
Middletown is an All-American City located in Butler and Warren counties in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Formerly in Lemon, Turtlecreek, and Franklin townships, Middletown was incorporated by the Ohio General Assembly on February 11, 1833, and became a city in 1886. The city was the home of AK Steel Holding Corporation (formerly Armco), a major steel works founded in 1900 until it moved to West Chester Township, Ohio in 2007, and Rogers Ltd., Inc. (a.k.a. Rogers Jewelers). Middletown contains a small municipal airport known as Hook Field, (airport code MWO), but is no longer served by commercial airliners, only for general aviation. A regional campus of Miami University is located in Middletown.
The population of Middletown as of the 2000 census was 51,605, as Middletown continues to focus on an outward growth from annexation rather than from interior redevelopment. Its name is believed to have come from its founder, Stephen Vail, but questions remain unanswered as to why. One local historian stated that the town received its name because Mr. Vail, had come from Middletown, New Jersey. Another writer believed that the town was named Middletown because it was the midway point of navigation on the Great Miami River, which was then considered a navigable stream. Vail centered the town in Fractional Section 28 of Town 2, Range 4 North. The Towne Mall, located near I-75, is the main shopping center of the city.
The population of Middletown as of the 2000 census was 51,605, as Middletown continues to focus on an outward growth from annexation rather than from interior redevelopment. Its name is believed to have come from its founder, Stephen Vail, but questions remain unanswered as to why. One local historian stated that the town received its name because Mr. Vail, had come from Middletown, New Jersey. Another writer believed that the town was named Middletown because it was the midway point of navigation on the Great Miami River, which was then considered a navigable stream. Vail centered the town in Fractional Section 28 of Town 2, Range 4 North. The Towne Mall, located near I-75, is the main shopping center of the city.
From the mills at AK Steel, to the city's biggest employer and one of the nation's top 100 hospitals, Atrium Medical Center, Middletown is home to a wide variety of business and industry.
Most new commercial development is centered around the campus of the newly built Atrium Medical Center, located just east of Interstate 75. Atrium Medical Center replaces the former Middletown Regional Hospital. There has been much dissent in the community on the moving of the hospital from its former site to its new site three miles away. However, the new hospital offers a much larger emergency room, private rooms, and newer and better technology and equipment. In addition, the City Council has been focusing on renewing the business prospects of downtown Middletown.
Middletown City School District provides educational opportunities for the majority of the community, while Franklin and Lebanon City School Districts oversee some outlying parts of the city. Other schools/districts located in the area include Bishop Fenwick High School, Middletown Christian, Madison Local, Lakota Local, Summit Academy, Middletown Fitness & Preparatory Academy, Life Skills Center of Butler County, Butler Technology and Career Development Schools, and Miami University-Middletown, a Miami University regional campus.
The Ohio Challenge Hot Air Balloon Festival, Middfest, All-American Weekend, Greek Festival, Fenwick Festival, and numerous outdoor concerts are just some of the many community events held annually in Middletown.
The Aeronautical Corporation of America, later to be called Aeronca, located to Middletown in 1940 from Cincinnati. The company designed and built thousands of aircraft, notably the Champ, Chief and Super Chief. Today, the company is an operating division of Magellan Aerospace.
Every two years, Middletown hosts the National Aeronca Association convention and fly-in where aircraft owners, pilots, enthusiasts and former employees of Aeronca gather at Hook Field Municipal Airport for a weekend of flying and camaraderie.
The Middletown Journal is a daily paper printed by Cox Publishing covering area, state, national, and world events.
Telephone service is provided through Middletown and Franklin exchanges. The area codes in use are 513 and 937. Another exchange has also been assigned to Middletown but will not be put into use until the 513 exchange runs out of numbers.
The Middletown area is also divided amongst two zip codes, 45042 and 45044. The dividing line for these two zip codes is generally Central Avenue.
Middletown is home to two radio stations, WPFB (AM), broadcasting on 910 kHz, and WPFB (FM) (The Rebel), broadcasting on 105.9 MHz. The broadcast tower is located not too far from Central Academy. It can be seen from much of the city.
Throughout history Middletown has been home to several main transportation routes including the Great Miami River, Miami and Erie Canal, Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad, Middletown and Cincinnati Railroad, and now Interstate 75, which is currently being widened to four lanes at the Middletown exit, Exit 32. In addition, the interchange for the northbound lanes is set to be redone from its current ribbon-like design to the more common, side ramps.
Blue Ball, Engle's Corner, Amanda, Lemon Township Morrell's Station, and Excello, Ohio have all been annexed by Middletown. More land was annexed by Middletown when the new Bishop Fenwick High School was built out in Hunter, however, this land was given to Middletown and did not have to be annexed in the traditional sense.
AK Steel's The Hot Strip Mill includes the first building design that ever needed to take into account the circumference of the earth.
Middletown was once home to a professional baseball team.
Middletown High School has more Division I State Basketball Championships (7) than any other school in the state.
The Middletown City School District has eight elementary schools, Amanda Elementary, Central Academy, Creekview Elementary, Highview Elementary, Mayfield Elementary, Miller Ridge Elementary, Rosa Parks Elementary, and Wildwood Elementary. The school district also has two middle schools, Stephen Vail Middle School and George M. Verity Middle School.
Most new commercial development is centered around the campus of the newly built Atrium Medical Center, located just east of Interstate 75. Atrium Medical Center replaces the former Middletown Regional Hospital. There has been much dissent in the community on the moving of the hospital from its former site to its new site three miles away. However, the new hospital offers a much larger emergency room, private rooms, and newer and better technology and equipment. In addition, the City Council has been focusing on renewing the business prospects of downtown Middletown.
Middletown City School District provides educational opportunities for the majority of the community, while Franklin and Lebanon City School Districts oversee some outlying parts of the city. Other schools/districts located in the area include Bishop Fenwick High School, Middletown Christian, Madison Local, Lakota Local, Summit Academy, Middletown Fitness & Preparatory Academy, Life Skills Center of Butler County, Butler Technology and Career Development Schools, and Miami University-Middletown, a Miami University regional campus.
The Ohio Challenge Hot Air Balloon Festival, Middfest, All-American Weekend, Greek Festival, Fenwick Festival, and numerous outdoor concerts are just some of the many community events held annually in Middletown.
The Aeronautical Corporation of America, later to be called Aeronca, located to Middletown in 1940 from Cincinnati. The company designed and built thousands of aircraft, notably the Champ, Chief and Super Chief. Today, the company is an operating division of Magellan Aerospace.
Every two years, Middletown hosts the National Aeronca Association convention and fly-in where aircraft owners, pilots, enthusiasts and former employees of Aeronca gather at Hook Field Municipal Airport for a weekend of flying and camaraderie.
The Middletown Journal is a daily paper printed by Cox Publishing covering area, state, national, and world events.
Telephone service is provided through Middletown and Franklin exchanges. The area codes in use are 513 and 937. Another exchange has also been assigned to Middletown but will not be put into use until the 513 exchange runs out of numbers.
The Middletown area is also divided amongst two zip codes, 45042 and 45044. The dividing line for these two zip codes is generally Central Avenue.
Middletown is home to two radio stations, WPFB (AM), broadcasting on 910 kHz, and WPFB (FM) (The Rebel), broadcasting on 105.9 MHz. The broadcast tower is located not too far from Central Academy. It can be seen from much of the city.
Throughout history Middletown has been home to several main transportation routes including the Great Miami River, Miami and Erie Canal, Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad, Middletown and Cincinnati Railroad, and now Interstate 75, which is currently being widened to four lanes at the Middletown exit, Exit 32. In addition, the interchange for the northbound lanes is set to be redone from its current ribbon-like design to the more common, side ramps.
Blue Ball, Engle's Corner, Amanda, Lemon Township Morrell's Station, and Excello, Ohio have all been annexed by Middletown. More land was annexed by Middletown when the new Bishop Fenwick High School was built out in Hunter, however, this land was given to Middletown and did not have to be annexed in the traditional sense.
AK Steel's The Hot Strip Mill includes the first building design that ever needed to take into account the circumference of the earth.
Middletown was once home to a professional baseball team.
Middletown High School has more Division I State Basketball Championships (7) than any other school in the state.
The Middletown City School District has eight elementary schools, Amanda Elementary, Central Academy, Creekview Elementary, Highview Elementary, Mayfield Elementary, Miller Ridge Elementary, Rosa Parks Elementary, and Wildwood Elementary. The school district also has two middle schools, Stephen Vail Middle School and George M. Verity Middle School.
Today's Jumble (8/28/08):
POREA = OPERA; NAJOB = BANJO; BRATIL = TRIBAL; WABUSY = SUBWAY
CIRCLED LETTERS = EABARBLSW
When the players began fighting, the game turned into a - - -
"BASE BRAWL"
Today is Race Your Mouse Day!!! It is also Dream Day in honor of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" in 1963. Finally, I found that it is National Cherry Turnover Day. Now it's off to the races. Ready, Set, Go!!!!!!
Other things on this day in history:
475 - Fall of the Roman Empire: The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
489 - Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
1189 - Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1349 - 6,000 Jews are killed in Mainz, accused to be the cause of the plague.
1511 - Portuguese conquer Malacca.
1521 - The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
1542 - Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) - Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama captured and afterwards executed.
1565 - St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.
1609 - Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
1619 - Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1640 - Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn
1777 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Cooch's Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.
1789 - William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn.
1830 - The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.
1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue.
1849 - After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.
1859 - A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far afield as Japan.
1862 - American Civil War - Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the battle of Second Manassas.
1867 - The United States takes possession of the at this point unoccupied Midway Island.
1879 - Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
1898 - Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
1907 - UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
1913 - Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
1914 - World War I - The Royal Navy beats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
1914 - World War I - German troops conquer Namur.
1916 - World War I - Germany declares war on Romania.
1916 - World War I - Italy declares war on Germany.
1917 - Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.
1924 - Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1931 - France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
1937 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1943 - World War II - In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
1944 - World War II - Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1953 - Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1961 - Motown releases what would be its first number one hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
1963 - March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream speech.
1964 - The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1968 - Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
1971 - The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
1979 - An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.
1981 - The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS.
1982 - The first Gay Games are held in San Francisco.
1986 - US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.
1988 - Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and fall into the crowd. 75 are killed, 346 seriously injured.
1990 - Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
1990 - The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union - Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
1996 - Britons Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, are divorced.
1998 - Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
489 - Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
1189 - Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1349 - 6,000 Jews are killed in Mainz, accused to be the cause of the plague.
1511 - Portuguese conquer Malacca.
1521 - The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
1542 - Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) - Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama captured and afterwards executed.
1565 - St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.
1609 - Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
1619 - Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1640 - Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn
1777 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Cooch's Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.
1789 - William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn.
1830 - The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.
1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue.
1849 - After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.
1859 - A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far afield as Japan.
1862 - American Civil War - Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the battle of Second Manassas.
1867 - The United States takes possession of the at this point unoccupied Midway Island.
1879 - Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
1898 - Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
1907 - UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
1913 - Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
1914 - World War I - The Royal Navy beats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
1914 - World War I - German troops conquer Namur.
1916 - World War I - Germany declares war on Romania.
1916 - World War I - Italy declares war on Germany.
1917 - Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.
1924 - Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1931 - France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
1937 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1943 - World War II - In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
1944 - World War II - Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1953 - Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1961 - Motown releases what would be its first number one hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
1963 - March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream speech.
1964 - The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1968 - Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
1971 - The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
1979 - An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.
1981 - The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS.
1982 - The first Gay Games are held in San Francisco.
1986 - US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.
1988 - Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and fall into the crowd. 75 are killed, 346 seriously injured.
1990 - Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
1990 - The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union - Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
1996 - Britons Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, are divorced.
1998 - Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
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