ADDED... info to Kramer page to flesh out the Harry Luther Kramer part. See: Kramer Family page

ADDED... content to Kramer page to include letter from Helen Kramer to her granddaughter. See: Kramer Family page

ADDED... military record for John Jacob Herzog. See: Herzog Family page

ADDED... a second image of R.Kirk Mee I - from the Memoirs of Miami Valley. See: Mee Family page

ADDED... a 1934 image of Samuel & Josephine (Bufler) Herzog standing in their Alabama garden. See the Herzog Family page.

ADDED... a younger photo of Mr. and Mrs. George Keppler. See: Keppler Family page

ADDED... an image of Peter Vinson from the Memoirs of Miami Valley. See the Vinson Family page.

ADDED... a Boy Scout section to the youth page - based on the recollections of G. William "Junior" Wills, Charles Teckman, and Dale Bufler.

See 1940s Darrtown-based Boy Scout Troop.

ADDED... a note, an illustration, and a map to clarify where the "Skeets" Wright campground was located back in the 1940s. To see these items, visit the Bufler family page and scroll to the 1940 reunion section. Here is a link to the Bufler family page.

   EXPANDED... the Virgil Alston section - after discovering a 1973 Oxford Press news item  

Upon Virgil's passing in 1973, Mr. Gilson Wright, a columnist for the Oxford (Ohio) Press wrote an article in which he remembered some of Virgil's accomplishments. Click following link to access Gilson's tribute to Virgil Alston.

Virgil Alston and Walter Alston were first cousins. Virgil Alston's father, Stanley, was a brother to Emmons Alston, who was the father of Walter.

A native of Darrtown, Virgil Alston became a premier runner for the Miami University track team in the early 1940s. Virgil served in the U.S. Army during WWII. After the war, Virgil capitalized on his natural talent for drawing and enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Mention the name Alston to people who know Darrtown history and they are likely to first think of Walter Alston - the Darrtown boy who grew up to manage the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers and become a member of baseball's Hall of Fame.

ADDED... a web page to preserve the memory of a memories exhibit - that was a part of the 2019 Darrtown Fall Festival. See: Darrtown Memories Exhibit - 2019

ADDED... the 1957 image at the right, taken during an Earl "Red" Huber Christmas Party for Kids. Click the link at the end of this section to see it. When the link/page opens, three other links will

provide: (1) an enlarged view of the photo (taken in front of the K. of P. Hall); (2) background info about the photo ...which came from Marvin Russell and Gary Hufford; and (3) a news clipping about the event, which Gilson Wright wrote for the Oxford Press. See them all at: 1957 image

ADDED... AN IMAGE OF THE DARRTOWN BALL FIELD, where the Darrtown teams played their home games during the early part of the 20th century. Darrtown native, Marvin Russell, contributed the photo in January 2022, after he found it among some Lane Library files.

See an enlarged view of the 1919 photo at: Image of  Darrtown baseball field found

Some of the games played at Darrtown drew more than 2,000 admission-paying fans. Those Darrtown teams were good enough to play (and defeat) teams from throughout Butler County, Hamilton and Cincinnati. To see a summary of 66 games played over a five year span (1919-1923), visit Record of Games Played