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Miami Military Institute
The Miami Military Institute (MMI) was a military college located in Germantown, Ohio, which operated between 1894 and 1933. The school's parade grounds were on the current location of the Veteran's park in Germantown. History In 1885, Orvon Graff Brown leased a propriety in Germantown and used it to establish Twin Valley College and Ohio Conservatory of Music. In 1894 the music program was dropped in favor of military studies. The school operated until closing its doors in 1934, due to the drop in enrollment due to the Great Depression. Almost 150 cadets of the academy served in World War I, more than half of them as commissioned officers. Seven of these cadets died in the conflict. Post-MMI building history From the 1940s to the 1980s, the building that was once the MMI acted as a Methodist camp, and was affectionately known as "Camp Miami" by locals. It was later a very popular location for Urban exploration Urban exploration (often shortened as UE, urbex and sometime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germantown, Ohio
Germantown is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. The population was 5,547 at the 2010 census. A part of the Dayton metropolitan area, Germantown was founded by German Americans from Pennsylvania and was once home to a cigar industry. History Germantown was established in 1804 by German-speaking settlers from Berks County, Pennsylvania. Philip Gunckel, the only member of the group who spoke English, is recognized as Germantown's founder, who chose the site for a grist mill and laid out the original town plan in 1814. The Gunckel Town Plan, maintaining many of its original 19th and early 20th century buildings, has been recognized as a Historic District and has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Germantown underwent many economic changes as distilleries, and the cigar industry, both came and went. In 1847 the Mudlick Distillery was established and, with an output of 30 barrels of whiskey a day, was considered the largest in the country for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
