RESEARCH

(placeholder)

May 6, 2022

TO SEE past editions of the Darrtown website newsletter...

Go to the website homepage.

Visit the "Archive" section.

Click the "Newsletter" link.

Click the following link to see a photo of the 1928 team.

a news item to the "Schools" section

of this website that reports on efforts of the 1929 Darrtown High School baseball team to repeat as Butler County champs. Click the following link to see the news clipping.

Try it! Here's the homepage

a photo of Walter Alston (and others) standing beside a calliope...at a parade...in Darrtown

The occasion was a 1955 parade that honored Darrtown's Walter "Smokey" Alston, after he managed the Brooklyn Dodgers to their first-ever World Series championship.

The "others" in the photo include a few Oxford teenagers who traveled to Darrtown for the event. Click this link to see...

To see previous editions of the Darrtown Website Newsletter, visit Newsletter Archive

If you change your email address, please inform the Darrtown webmaster.

This newsletter is a product of FAL Services

...a page about the past ownership of Lot 76 in Darrtown. This is the property located across from Stang's Auto.

...more info about amateur baseball - with a Darrtown connection.

Marvin Russell recently contributed photos of five local baseball teams that include his grandfather, Clyde Russell. See the images and some Russell family genealogy at: Rufus Clyde Russell

Two news items from the 1970s tell about the ladies auxiliary conducting an election of officers and the addition of a new tanker. Click the following link and when the page opens, scroll to the bottom to see: Milford Twp. Fire Dept. news items from the seventies

...a 1927 news clipping about 15-year old Wilbur Smith being injured when the team of work horses that he was driving bolted. He fell under a roller that the horses were pulling. See details of the incident at: Darrtown/Events/Roller Accident

See the list of early owners at: Lot 76

Back in the 1990s, a musical group from Darrtown started making the rounds at local venues. What was the band's name?

Roustabout

Not the Roustabout.

Whereabout

Not the Whereabout.

Hearabout

Not the Hearabout.

Roundabout

Yes! The four-member band of boys from Darrtown was know as Roundabout! Click the link in the panel at the right to see more about the band.

After you finish the "Multiple Guess" activity, at the left, click the following link to see more about the Darrtown bell bottomed band.


Save the date!

Mark your calendars!

The Dayton Lane Historic District

in Hamilton, Ohio is hosting a

MAY PROMENADE on SUNDAY,

MAY 15th, 2022.

Click the link at the right to see more information about this event.

If you have an item for our Community Bulletin Board, contact the Darrtown webmaster.

Did you know?