Adjacent to the fire station is the Harshman-Zimmerman Cemetery, burials include one of the area’s first doctors, Dr. George Zimmerman, as well as several members of the Harshman family.  Further east at 3685 Dayton-Xenia Road is a farm of nearly 49 acres that has been in the Durnbaugh family for in excess of 140 years!  Near 3600 Dayton-Xenia Road was the location of the Rest Haven, built in 1924, famous for their live black bears!

Enjoy this diagnosis and treatment attributed to Dr. Zimmerman on March 26, 1801: "...your mother's illness is a catarrh or rhumatic fever and is caused by the stomach and is a stomach cough, although the Zelnkoder may come from the lungs, such as a sickness is not half as dangerous with old people as with younger ones.  I wish wither her medicine your mother would take what I now tell you.

Take ½ gallon hard vinegar, 1 handful yssop, 1 handful fluellin, ½ oz. sea onion, 1 oz. gum amoniac boil it down to half then strain and take the same amount of honey and boil down to 1 pint.  She should take 3 times a day, 1 Tbs. in a teacul of milkshotten...

There is another cure for such a sickness.  Take a fresh laid egg, boil it in the urine of the patient, then 10-15 small holes in the egg, bury it in an anthill and whn the ants have eaten up the egg, the patient will be well."

• Durnbaugh Engagement Durnbaugh Engagement
• Rest Haven Bears Rest Haven Bears
• Rest Haven Sold Rest Haven Sold
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Continue east on Dayton-Xenia road beyond Grange Hall Road. 2611 Mardon Drive was the home of the Family Room restaurant, which opened in July of 1961. At 3930 Dayton-Xenia Road, you’ll find the Daniel C. Coy house, built c.1896. Daniel was a prominent local farmer and was also a practicing chiropractor in Dayton.

As you approach the stoplight at N. Longview Drive, the neighborhood we call Knollwood was once a town of its own including a grocery, post office and other necessary services over the years including:

• The Knollwood Barber Shop
• The Knollwood Carry-Out
• The Knollwood Hobby Shop
• The original Lofino's at D-X and Brook Lynn
• The Library next to Lofino's
• Cassano's Pizza King
• Shoup's Sporting Goods
• Kozen's Hardware
• Tom's Sohio
• Karl's Marathon
• The Shell Station with Dallas Lunsford's Chevelle, 'Snoopy' and his other drag car, 'Red Baron'
• Fry's Auto Parts and more!

There were plenty of oil pan scrapes on North Central from cars jumping the hump in the road - not to mention the infamous cinnamon oil dipped toothpicks from the corner pharmacy that were ultimately banned by Principal Sweet at Ferguson Junior High!  Horses were a common sight in the area then as well...

Its most rapid development came as there was a shortage of housing for returning WWII veterans. There is a wide variety of bungalow style homes as well as pre-fabricated homes manufactured by Sears-Roebuck and the Lustron Company. This is also the location of the Beavercreek Senior Center, affectionately known as the Old Lofino’s (even though it was the second Lofino’s!), a locally owned grocery. Hawker Church experienced tremendous growth and built a new structure just to the north of the Senior Center.

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