Dayton History Going On Web ; Author Scanning Books From Library's Choice Collection

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DAYTON -- In 1901, an elderly Dayton man named Michael Ohmer looked back 60 years to the days when the Miami & Erie Canal was the principal mover of freight and people from here to Cincinnati.

"There were regular lines of boats leaving Dayton for Cincinnati nearly every day, also a line of packets would leave Dayton at 10:00 o'clock A.M. and arrive in Cincinnati at 5:00 o'clock the next morning, passengers eating dinner and lodging aboard," Ohmer wrote.

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Dayton History Going On Web ; Author Scanning Books From Library's Choice Collection

"There was also a line of leather boot and leather spring stages to Cincinnati. They would make a little better time than the packets. They left at the same time...

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