Before there was Fairborn, Ohio, there were the neighboring towns of Fairfield and Osborn. After the 1913 Flood, the Miami Conservancy District developed a series of dams for flood prevention, one of which was the Huffman Dam on the Mad River. Osborn was located within the flood plain that would be created by this dam, so many of the town’s buildings were moved 1.5 miles east by the Osborn Removal Company in the 1920s, in order to save them. In the early 1950s, the towns of Fairfield and Osborn officially merged to form what we now know as Fairborn.
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/ddn_archive/2013/01/23/fairfield-osborn-fairborn/
Before there was Fairborn, Ohio, there were the neighboring towns of Fairfield and Osborn. After the 1913 Flood, the Miami Conservancy District developed a series of dams for flood prevention, one of which was the Huffman Dam on the Mad River. Osborn was located within the flood plain that would be created by this dam, so many of the town’s buildings were moved 1.5 miles east by the Osborn Removal Company in the 1920s, in order to save them. In the early 1950s, the towns of Fairfield and Osborn officially merged to form what we now know as Fairborn.
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/ddn_archive/2013/01/23/fairfield-osborn-fairborn/
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