Dayton

Dayton, capital of Montgomery county, Ohio, the fifth city of the state in point of population and of wealth, is situated on the Great Miami, at the mouth of the Mad River, 60 miles NNE. of Cincinnati by rail. The streets are broad, the private residences generally handsome; the public buildings include a court-house of white marble, a large gaol, a number of schools, and about fifty churches. Standing on the line of the Miami Canal (opened 1829), the city is the terminus of eight railroads, and the water of the Mad River is brought through its streets by an hydraulic canal, supplying abund- ant water-power. It has numerous and important manufactures, including railroad-cars, cotton, woollen, and iron goods, oil, flour, paper, and machinery. Dayton, it may be noticed, is the headquarters of the Gypsies in the United States. Pop. (1870) 30,473; (1880) 38,678; (1890) 61,220.