Though Wright State has a Dayton address, it is legally within Fairborn jurisdiction. From a small cluster of buildings, it has grown into a major campus with almost 20,000 students.
Many also work at or attend Wright State University, a university that became independent in 1967. It has been described as the largest, most diverse and organizationally complex base in the Air Force. In 2007, many residents of Fairborn continue to work at nearby Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the home of the Air Force Materiel Command. It has since been surpassed by neighboring Beavercreek in population. It has resumed at a moderate pace since the late 1980s. I-675 was eventually completed by 1987.įairborn's growth slowed in the 1970s. McGee opposed the highway, contending (accurately) that it would draw economic development out of the city into the suburbs, a pattern that took place in many other cities. This section was jokingly referred to by some as "Fairborn's private Interstate". No further construction was done for over a decade. In the early 1970s, construction began on the northernmost part of I-675, just east of Fairborn. The development of Interstate 675 began in the 1960s to serve as an eastern bypass of Dayton. Officials at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are credited with working with the city residents to end such policies, especially as the United States military was integrated beginning in 1948. Until the mid-1960s, the city of Fairborn prohibited African Americans from living there and declared it was a sundown town. Southwestern Portland Cement, another major employer in the region, operated the largest factory in the city during this period, mining the locally exposed Brassfield Formation. Many of the original houses of old Osborn can be found in Fairborn's Historic Osborn District, where they were moved during the early 1920s.įrom 1950–1970, the city grew to six times its former population, surpassing Xenia (the county seat) as the most populous city in the county, due largely to development and expansion of the nearby US Air Force Base. The settlement allowed the railroad to be built through it after the nearby town of Fairfield had refused such construction. Nearby Osborn was named after the superintendent of the railroad named E.F. The other possible source for the name is after a Fairfield in England. I see thousands of white men moving about in that beautiful fair field. He said to William Cozad that, when he looked out from Reed's Hill over the town, A local Native American chief, possibly a Shawnee, made peace and exchanged prisoners with leaders of the settlement. Two local accounts relate to the origin of the name "Fairfield". No massacres were recorded but both sides engaged in taking prisoners.
They were encroaching on territory of the native Shawnee, who sometimes raided the village. Pioneers migrating northward and westward from Kentucky and Virginia considered this area near the Mad River desirable for settlement. The first log cabin was built in 1799 by George Greiner. The area of the village of Fairfield was settled by European Americans before Ohio was admitted as a state.
Fairfield was founded by European Americans in 1816 and Osborn in 1850. Fairborn was formed from the union in 1950 of the two villages of Fairfield and Osborn.
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