The town and its square mile
The Dome at the Centre of the Square
The Miami County Courthouse built in 1888 — its design, its dome, its position anchoring the Public Square, and what the building has housed in the years since.
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The Square
Four Streets and a Fountain
The Public Square as a piece of urban fabric — the fountain at its centre, the angled parking on the surrounding streets, and the way the square sits in relation to the courthouse and the commercial blocks around it.
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The Square
Built in Troy in the 1920s
The WACO Aircraft Company and the biplanes it produced through the 1920s and 1930s — specific models, production numbers, and the WACO Air Museum and Aviation Learning Center that now holds and flies examples of the type.
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The Square
Hobart Arena's Long Card
The documented concert and hockey record at Hobart Arena — the acts and events it has hosted over the decades, and how a mid-sized arena in a town of 26,000 ended up with that kind of card.
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The Square
The Tavern That Predates the Town
The Overfield Tavern, built in 1808 before Troy was incorporated, as a surviving structure from the settlement period — its construction, its documented use, and what it holds as a museum today.
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The Square
What the Festival Has Always Been
The Troy Strawberry Festival as a recurring institution with a documented history — when it began, how it uses the downtown streets, and what its scale and continuity say about the town that runs it.
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The Square
The Hayner House and What It Became
The Troy-Hayner Cultural Center — the building's origins, its architectural character, and the range of programming it has housed since becoming a public cultural facility.
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The whole registerThe water gets the first say
The flood-control system that makes the town possible: five dry dams, a raised levee, the 1913 event that set the design, and Arthur Morgan's district.
6 pieces Section 2The school has been here since 1930
The Hobart Institute, the welding-wire plant that shares its name, the Honda investment upstream, and why the American Welding Society's shortage number keeps climbing.
6 pieces Section 4The county and what sits in it
Miami County beyond the city limits: Piqua and the Johnston Farm, Tipp City's canal-era main street, the Miami and Erie Canal locks, the Stillwater River, and Dayton's record to the south.
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