We're changing our name and streamlining our focus, we really hope you'll enjoy the new www.BeavercreekLiving.com!

Preparedness is key when it comes to snow removal by the city and township -- and this year's gonna be a doozy!

We can all do better - some of us can do A WHOLE LOT better...

Over the coming weeks, Beavercreek will explode into a palette of beautiful Fall foliage - but where can you find BEAVERCREEK'S FINEST?!

Each year, Beavercreek is the center of the popcorn universe the weekend after Labor Day, love it or loathe it - what's your plan?

On August 19, 2015 Beavercreek City Schools unveiled an absolute gem of a facility for the youngest of our students!

William Shakespeare never visited Beavercreek, but if he had - I he'd surely have loved it... and even found his way around!

You shouldn't have to dig so deeply for good news about our community! There's plenty buried right under your nose...

As Senior Picture time winds down and the wedding season heats up, let's share some of our favorite photo spots!

We love lists!!  Discover our new 'Beavercreek Book Of Lists', (Positive and otherwise!) as contributed by our readers!

The independent retailer returns more than three times as much money per dollar of sales than chain competitors, reports the American Independent Business Alliance.

We've come a long way, baby!  Welcome to the latest incarnation of the site!  Over the years, BeavercreeksLiving.com has evolved from a clunky news and info project into a mobile-responsive special feature site about the wonderful community we call home.

The Dayton region is linking to a nationwide network of bicycle routes, the first in Ohio designated as U.S. Bike Route 50 from the Indiana border in Preble County to Steubenville on the WV border.

The northwest corner of North Fairfield Road and Kemp Road was the location of the Mt. Pisgah German Reformed Church. This building was later used as Sunnyside School, reportedly the second schoolhouse in Beavercreek.. Sunnyside Cemetery still exists north of the intersection and is the final resting place of members of the Cyphers, Goldshot, Harshman, Howett, Koogler, Reiglesperger, Sensenbaugh, Swigert and Trubee families, with the earliest burial being John Helmer in 1823.

The north-central area of the township was a collection of large tract farms, owned by G.B. LaFong, the Koogler, Lantz, Tobias and Harner families amongst others. There were no ‘towns’ in the immediate area, so travels to New Germany, Byron, Zimmerman and Trebein were common.

A block north stood, at the corner of G. B. Lafong’s 208 acre parcel stood the Church of the Brethren.  Prominent in the Zimmerman area were the Shoup, Hanes, Coy, Stine, Tobias, Black and Bates families.

At the southeast corner of North Fairfield Road and Lantz Road stood the Bellfair Country Store, which survived as a nostalgic destination until the late 1990’s!  From the early days it was a great place for penny candy, ice cream and an ‘old time’ soda or phosphate!

Gary Deis was the former proprietor, and in an effort to increase business, started an event in the parking lot focused around his popcorn machine.  He even marketed fictitious ‘popcorn burgers’ that would flip themselves on the grill when the kernels would pop!  His idea blossomed into Beavercreek’s Popcorn Festival, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors annually the weekend after Labor Day.

In early 2018, the area underwent a great transformation with many of the old Zimmerman homes being demolished for a new commercial development on the west side of North Fairfield Road.

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The beautiful clock at the southwest corner of Dayton-Xenia and North Fairfield Roads commemorates the 25th anniversary of the incorporation of the City Of Beavercreek.  For over 15 years prior to incorporation, neighboring communities attempted to annex portions of Beavercreek Township.  A Committee Of Eleven was established to defend against the annexation attempts as well as to initiate the incorporation procedures.

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Hanes Road didn’t exist in 1874, it eventually tracked north along the property line of the 217 acre farm of Jonathan Hanes on the east and a 137 acre tract owned by Moses M. Shoup, on the west.

Throughout the years many businesses have called these shopping centers home: G.D. Ritzy’s, Cap’n Bogey’s, Mr. Gatti's, Beavercreek Cinema, Bud Frantz’s Fairfield Inn, Char-Burger, Scottie’s, Imperial Grocer, and many, many, many more.

The southeast corner has changed quite dramatically.  The Kroger, which originally faced Dayton-Xenia Road, was demolished and now faces North Fairfield Road.

In the late 1970's a bar named The Mouse That Roared was located at the west end of the strip center.  It was allegedly quite the meat market!  As the story goes, a major entertainment complex in the Orlando, Florida area didn't appreciate The Mouse's representation of their major rodent character being inebriated in a cocktail glass on their sign!  A graphic of their two rodents doing the popular 70's dance 'The bump' on the side of their supply van was more than W.D. could take.  The Mouse was ultimately sued... so much for creative marketing!

Later, the location re-opened as Wolfie's - another bar / dance club.  In the interest of maintaining a G-rating on the site, we'll defer on sharing Wolfie's stories...

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After increasing population and increasing demands from the State Board of Education (Sound familiar?), the citizens united for the common good and in 1932, all of the one-room schoolhouses and the high school were closed and the entire school district was moved into the new centralized school now known as Main Elementary.

1932 was also the first year for buses to pick up students and also the first in-school cafeteria.  The class of 1933 graduated with twenty-five members.  In 1951 a fourteen-room building was built to the immediate west, with another seven rooms added in 1953.  This building housed grades one through four and was later known as West Main Primary School.  The two buildings were connected in the latter twentieth century.

The last class to graduate from the centralized 'Beavercreek School' was the class of 1954 with sixty-two graduates.

This photo, we've not seen anywhere else, was found rolled into a small tube.  Upon smoothing, scanning and editing you can clearly see into the auditorium.

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On January 3, 1964, the fuselage of a RB-57D Canberra twin jet reconnaissance plane crashed in a parking lot of the school that has since been developed into a portion of the building.  Over 2,000 students, teachers and workers were in the school at the time!  The plane spun through the air for over 15 miles after the wings had ripped off at 50,000 feet.

No one was injured and little damage was done, largely because there was no explosion due to the fuel having been contained in the wings.  The pilot parachuted to safety.  The engines landed miles away in a field on Shakertown Road and the wings were found near Fairground Road.

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