The area most now consider the center of Beavercreek was long ago known as the settlement of Cimmermanville, then Zimmermanville, and later shortened to Zimmerman.  The first home built here was at the southeast corner of Dayton-Xenia and North Fairfield Roads for Jacob Zimmerman, for whom the village was named.  In this home was the first grocery.  He also kept a house for ‘the entertainment of travelers.’

This was the second-largest town in the township to Alpha.  Zimmerman School #12 sat just west of the intersection and was led by Professor Frank Zimmerman in the early days.  This was a rare two-room school with the older students in the Big Room and the younger in the Little Room.  Well behaved students would be awarded the honor of ringing the school bell for recess, while those not-so-fortunate would lug coal and clean the ash pan.

• North Fairfield Road North Fairfield Road
• Late 60's or early 70's Late 60's or early 70's
• Zimmerman School Zimmerman School
• Zimmerman in 1874 Zimmerman in 1874
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1961 Description of Zimmerman - Zimmermansville about two miles west of Alpha on the Old Dayton and Xenia Pike had a blacksmith shop, grocery, school house and two Dunkard Churches. The railroad station is a quarter of a mile south of Zimmerman and is named Shoup’s Station.

Present Day - You’ll notice there’s no town of Beavercreek! The area generally referred to as ‘downtown’ was known as Zimmermansville. Later it was shortened to Zimmerman, and often called “Push on” for various, but unconfirmed reasons. Whether it was the train conductors asking riders if they were exiting the train at Shoup’s Station (near the 9-11 Memorial) or going to “Push on” to the next stop or earlier travelers between Dayton and Xenia stopping to water their horses prior to “Pushing On” to their destination – the name stuck.

The community was centered on the intersection of Dayton-Xenia Road and North Fairfield Road, but the mills and train station were to the south at the bottom of the hill near the location of the current Daytona Mill and Beavercreek Station on the Creekside Trail.